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Profession Quotes



"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."



"Modeling is a profession where your worth is tied up with looks."



"That's one great thing about my profession, traveling to locations."


"I would not encourage everyone to take up this profession. Not everyone is suited for any particular field."



"I'm lucky to be in a profession where you can keep getting better."



"The University of North Carolina provided me with every tool necessary to rise to the top of my profession."


"The purpose of a profession is to fulfil the personal wishes of a prospect."



"Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it."


"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."



"In any profession, there's a sleazy side and an honorable side."



"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."



"I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names."



"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."



"I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it."



"An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her."



"The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades."



"He couldn't be a doctor, or he would have a quieter and more persuasive manner."


"High-quality professions look decently, think profoundly, and act thoughtfully."



"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."



"I had rather be called a journalist than an artist."
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