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Career Quotes
"I had already done Rainbow in Curved Air and had a big record on CBS. I was launched to have a long career and then I just dropped out and went to India."
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"They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations."
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"In a way, my past gives me a little credibility. Not that anybody cares what I did nineteen years ago, but I did have a career, and a legitimate one, before I met my husband."
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"About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient."
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"Since very early in my career, I have always did my own stunt fighting."
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"I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored."
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"If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!"
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"And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it."
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"Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career."
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"Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson."
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"Taking risks, choosing growth, challenging ourselves, and asking for promotions (with smiles on our faces, of course) are all important elements of managing a career. One of my favorite quotes comes from author Alice Walker, who observed, "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."Do not wait for power to be offered. Like that tiara, it might never materialize. And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?"
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"I always knew how to cook and at one point in my career where I had done nine television pilots before Three's Company and they all failed, I just got discouraged."
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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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"And then when I went to stay in '68, I can honestly say that I was not focused on my career and on what it took to be a major league pitcher and to be a starting pitcher."
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"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."
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"I was just trying out and having some fun. I don't think I'd want to pursue singing as a career; it's an on-the-side thing. It would be great if I could make a career out of it but if I can't, that's OK too."
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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."
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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."
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"The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage to meet George Harrison. I was simply awestruck."
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"Don't think of your courses as providing all you need for your career."
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"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."
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"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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"You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job."
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"I just did one movie and there was no career for me, anyway."
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"And I didn't, that's why my career was very short lived."
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"The man at Kodak told me the shots were very good and if I kept it up, they would give me an exhibition. Later, Kodak gave me my first exhibition."
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"Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?"
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"I never considered a career in broadcasting, not even as a kid."
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"I hadn't done anything in six years; I was just vegetating."
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"The wickets I have played on for my whole career, most of them have been to suit fast bowlers in Australia."
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