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Career Quotes
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
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"I am recording my first CD in Spanish and preparing myself for the next stage of my career."
121
"I had a career for 25 years in Australia before I ever came to the United States."
115
"This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career."
108
"I think I've got an outstanding defensive assistant staff that's really going to help us have consistent, strong defenses. And offensively, we have an excellent staff. We've got some younger guys on offense, but that's what I coach and have my entire coaching career."
71
"Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others."
62
"I didn't like how my NBA career ended because I wanted to go out on my own terms. But nobody tried to believe in me, that I could go back and play. I can still play at 39."
60
"I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service."
54
"I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone."
54
"I gave everything in my career so I have no regrets at all."
53
"The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to."
52
"I should have been trying to build a career, rather than leaving it in the hands of somebody else."
52
"My own electorate, which I represented for 36 years as an anti-apartheid politician, had a considerable number of Jewish voters supporting me throughout my career."
51
"I haven't achieved as much as I should have done in my career."
51
"This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail."
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"It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career."
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"Women don't take enough risks. Men are just 'foot on the gas pedal.' We're not going to close the achievement gap until we close the ambition gap."
50
"An image has stuck for most of my career and it isn't flattering."
48
"I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done."
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"My recording career has luckily run the gamut of recording environments."
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"I think I went through everything anyone who had a long career needed. I needed quiet. I needed to raise my children."
45
"It's been a career filled with very low valleys and some wonderful, high peaks."
45
"My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing."
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"If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them."
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"I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way."
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"The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them."
44
"I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while."
44
"I do think that, for instance, we've been very lucky to have theatrical careers and be associated with Shakespeare which sometimes gives you a kind of bogus kudos."
44
"On Friday I was in Washington for a meeting with Administration officials. In the course of that meeting, they requested that I 'step aside' as CEO of GM, and so I have."
43
"Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them."
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"I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not."
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"About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient."
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"It was necessary to organize my career to remain at the top level until Salt Lake City."
42
"I had a solo career before Van Halen. My fan base filtered through Van Halen with me and came right on out the other side with me."
42
"At Johnny's suggestion I pursued a career in radio that eventually brought me to Los Angeles."
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