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Career Quotes


"We've managed to have a long career that is still quite vibrant, yet we've never had to kow-tow to record companies who said we weren't commercial enough."


"I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes."


"I was feeling real good and real manly. Until a real cowboy walked by and told me I had my hat on backwards. So much for my career as a cowboy."


"Frankly, Governor Romney in his career has created more jobs than the entire Obama cabinet combined, so he could actually talk about it."


"Having designed and built several clocks during my career it suddenly occurred to me that when you look at the face of a clock both hands have the same center."


"You want the best for your kid, but everybody's career is completely different in this industry."


"How valuable NBC Magazine was in my career is questionable."


"Well, I liked it - that was the main thing. I liked it, but I didn't think of it in terms of a career. I didn't really know; I didn't really think about it. One thing just led to another until finally I quit my job as a salesman and found myself working as a photographer."


"Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up."



"I've cheated myself: there are other things I could have done to fill out the bouquet of my career."



"I was inspired to do anything I could to get out of what I was doing... today, I'm motivated to pay the bills."


"People who like their job will give it their best. Those who don't, show it by a poor performance."


"Nothing is a career move. Everything I've done this year has so not been a career move."


"Actually, 19 is in charge of our career at that point. FOX publicity is in charge of the publicity that we get. I'm fine with it, it is really organized."


"I still say one of the greatest moments in my whole NBA career was getting drafted."



"I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career."


"One day after laying a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr., President Bush appoints a federal judge who has built his career around dismantling Dr. King's legacy."


"If I had my career to play over, one thing I'd do differently is swing more. Those 1,200 walks I got, nobody remembers them."


"The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation."


"I think few wives would have encouraged this kind of drastic and reckless career shift!"


"There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star."


"We try and stay out of the corporate side of it. The band has never compromised. At some point in our career we could have made a certain type of record and sold millions of units, as they are called."


"Happiness is.. Starting your study with 3 principles of accounting, then your profession, with 3 principles of life.. CHALLENGE it, ACHIEVE it, Loop it. Happy to be a CA, Happy CA day."


"Everybody told me to stay in Hollywood. This was the place they said I could have a big career. What they failed to mention was that no one would quite know what to do with me."


"I was looking to become more proactive with my career because I wasn't crazy with some of the scripts I was getting - this was before Blow and Hannibal - so I decided to start my own production company."


"In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made."



"He decided to plunge on with pardons over the department's objections, or where he knew that there would be objections if he had let career prosecutors know what he was doing."


"And I mean, I'm established. So I'm not worried about having a hit at this point in my career."


"I think my career would probably be in a better place had I been more aggressive. But I don't have it in me. I'm not a competitive person, and I'm also really private."
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