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Profession Quotes
"I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names."
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"Modeling is a profession where your worth is tied up with looks."
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"That's one great thing about my profession, traveling to locations."
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"I'm lucky to be in a profession where you can keep getting better."
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"I had rather be called a journalist than an artist."
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"Justin Salinger showed up one day with a pink cowboy hat on and everyone else got really annoyed because somehow he'd managed to get the pink cowboy hat."
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"I would not encourage everyone to take up this profession. Not everyone is suited for any particular field."
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"Actresses are nightmares. I don't hang out with any of them. That's a problem with my profession. I try not to be like an actress."
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"You " help - people. You are an expert in your field, who genuinely helps other human beings. Take pride in that, stop hawking your wares, and get a bit of respect for your profession, and earn some from your prospects."
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"There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well."
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"The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime."
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"In any profession, there's a sleazy side and an honorable side."
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"An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her."
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"Being a writer is a more difficult job than people imagine."
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"Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it."
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"The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again."
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"The purpose of a profession is to fulfil the personal wishes of a prospect."
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"Challenges Ahead? Huh! Who cares! I am a CA, Chartered Accountant."
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"Doctors is all swabs."
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"The University of North Carolina provided me with every tool necessary to rise to the top of my profession."
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"The Scientist - with capital letters and no smile."
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"The financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession."
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"He couldn't be a doctor, or he would have a quieter and more persuasive manner."
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"The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades."
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"Authorpreneurship is the businesses side of writing."
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"I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it."
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"Any profession you engage in, no matter how profitable, unless it is truly helpful and good for others, is a crime against your soul, and the world."
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"I was good at being a doctor my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege."
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"High-quality professions look decently, think profoundly, and act thoughtfully."
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