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Career Quotes
"You have got to attract the brightest and the best, but the brightest and best won't stay unless they see real career options."
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"I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since."
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"If I had my career over again? Maybe I'd say to myself, speed it up a little."
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"I won't play for a penny less than fifteen hundred dollars."
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"One thing about me, as far as my career is concerned, is that I'm very confident. I know I'm good."
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"I have been typecast in my career, although the type changes with the decades."
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"I lost three times in my career. Losing to Holmes I could deal with, because I lost to a true champion."
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"You get work however you get work, but people keep working in a freelance world (and more and more of todays world is freelance), because their work is good, because they are easy to get along with and because they deliver the work on time. And you don't even need all three! Two out of three is fine. People will tolerate how unpleasant you are if your work is good and you deliver it on time. People will forgive the lateness of your work if it is good and they like you. And you don't have to be as good as everyone else if you're on time and it's always a pleasure to hear from you."
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"For the last thirty years in my career I never know what I'm doing next."
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"Just like in the workplace, women who are good workers are the best workers."
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"If you look at my career, towards the end you will see I was fighting like once a year. I was not part of the Don King top heavyweights, so I was kind of kept out. His guys were getting three to four fights a year and I could only get one."
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"Regardless, I did rise to the editorship before embarking on a freelance career in the late '60's."
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"My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis."
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"The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish."
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"If I am treated fairly, I like to do things in a fair manner. That is the way I have been all my career. I haven't tried to do things in an underhanded way."
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"Lincoln's removal from New Salem to Springfield and his entrance into a law partnership with Major John T. Stuart begin a distinctively new period in his career."
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"I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser."
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"Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia."
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"But when it became an international hoopla where careers lived and died on whether or not you did or didn't get an Oscar, then it got out of hand."
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"The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice."
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"I think the kind of career I've had, something would have had to be sacrificed."
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"I'm very happy to have a small, long, career instead of one big hit and then oblivion."
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"More live recording. I have missed the boat over my career by not doing every second or third CD live because things happen onstage that don't happen in the studio."
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"I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting."
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"I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career."
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"But, I don't want to assume that our tradition of excellence is a guarantee of future excellence."
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"I think it's critical that you feel you're working for a person who is committed to advancing your career."
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"To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the 'Lord of the Rings' films are not made for Oscars, they are made for the audience."
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