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Career Quotes
"They terminate your job? Employ yourself. They retire you? Refire yourself."
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"We want to christen every city that Kris has played in during his professional career."
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"I was the United States Attorney for Maine for three years, and then was appointed a federal judge."
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"I left with nothing and needing to begin a new career."
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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 think the kind of career I've had, something would have had to be sacrificed."
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"Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any."
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"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work."
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"It was necessary to organize my career to remain at the top level until Salt Lake City."
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"Warren Beatty took an interest in my career at one point."
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"I am not really sure how I got interested in medicine."
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"For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses."
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"When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues."
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"I have yet to write that one song that defines my career."
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"Actually I've never had formal training, I was lucky enough to continue working most of my career and aside from sitting in on a couple of classes, here and there, I basically just use my own instincts."
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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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"Regardless, I did rise to the editorship before embarking on a freelance career in the late '60's."
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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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"When you have won everything in your career, what's left? Why go on?"
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"It is extremely unlikely that anyone coming out of school with a technical degree will go into one area and stay there. Today's students have to look forward to the excitement of probably having three or four careers."
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"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."
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"They do say that the profession gets increasingly difficult, but my career seems to have been inside out. I'm playing the biggest parts now that I'm older. That's probably right, because I wasn't ready for them before."
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"Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up."
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"I wanted to be a director and producer and writer, but in the early '40's the union wouldn't let you get through the gates. You couldn't get on a crew, or even learn to direct."
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"Certainly the O.J. Simpson case was a turning point in my career."
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"I realized a career is built as much on what you don't do as what you do do."
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"After 16 months of teaching, consulting, fellowship, and special project activities on matters ranging from conservation to healthcare to international trade, Gov. Ventura appointed me to the Minnesota Court of Appeals."
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"If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career."
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"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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"There's a disappointment there because I still feel there's an emptiness in my career that just wasn't filled."
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"Maybe at this stage in my career, it's from that younger generation that I have most to learn."
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