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• Gastronomy is the French Foreign Legion. You don't need any qualifications. Just walk through the door and keep your head down. Be respectful - "Yes chef!" - and you'll be given a trade. One day you'll be in a position where you can put a roof over your children's heads, you can put food on their table, create security for them.

  Marco Pierre White

  Children, Doors, Over You

  Source: tart.org

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• That's the problem in my industry. Anyone can go and open a f - ing hotel. Anyone can go and buy a restaurant. It's not like a doctor or a lawyer, you need certain qualifications. That's the issue.

  Chelsea Handler

  Doctors, Issues, Needs

  Source: variety.com

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• People make fools out of themselves in all sorts of ways. No particular qualifications or particular criteria are necessary.

  Jackie Mason

  People, Way, Fool

  Source: spectator.org

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• Ten years ago if you would have told me that Mrs. Clinton would be the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, I'd have never believed you. Her only qualifications for office are that she's Mr. Clinton's partner. And what does that mean? The two of them stand for dishonesty and corruption.

  Jackie Mason

  Mean, Years, Two

  Source: spectator.org

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• There's a possible qualification I can make here about a non-pantheist god that is in some way tenable, and that is the idea of a god that has in some way discharged the universe from its own substance (I associate this with the word 'tzimtzum'), possibly even by a form of suicide - a suicide that might have been the Big Bang.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Suicide, Ideas, Might

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• I guess high verbal skills are highest in my list of necessary qualifications for a man - for anyone actually. I like to talk. And I don't necessarily move far, but I move fast.

  Carrie Fisher

  Moving, Men, Skills

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To speak truth to power is not a particularly honorable vocation. One should seek out an audience that matters - and furthermore (another important qualification), it should not be seen as an audience, but as a community of common concern in which one hopes to participate constructively.

  Noam Chomsky

  Community, Important, Matter

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• Some good leaders are rough around the edges and some leaders are difficult. Some have difficult personalities and some are really nice to be around, but those are not the qualifications. The qualifications are their desire to see us achieve more, their desire to push us to be the best we can be. Not for their selfish gain, but because they believe that we have something to offer.

  Simon Sinek

  Selfish, Nice, Believe

  Source: www.quickbase.com

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• So, because in no other person but Jesus of Nazareth did God first become human (in his birth), then bear our sins (in his death), then conquer death (in his resurrection) and then enter his people (by his Spirit), he is uniquely able to save sinners. Nobody else has his qualifications.

  John Stott

  Jesus, People, Able

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• Ron Teigen Sr. and Donald Trump Sr. both have matching political qualifications: zero.

  Chrissy Teigen

  Zero, Political, Matching

  "Chrissy Teigen Thinks Ivanka Trump 'Should Probably Run for Office One Day'". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. September 8, 2016.

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• In your telephone call, you [Malcolm Turnbull]said that neither you nor the Cabinet would be supporting my nomination. When I asked the reasons for this, you said that neither you nor the Cabinet has the view that I had the qualifications for the position [of UN's secretary-general].

  Kevin Rudd

  Views, Would Be, Nominations

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• The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.

  Samuel Richardson

  Different, Evening, Companion

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Hester Mulson Chapone, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1785). “The Rambler”, p.222

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• I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Humor, Giving

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.

  Hannah Arendt

  Peace, War, Errors

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Totalitarianism: Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Men, World, Merit

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Isobel Grundy (1997). “Selected letters”, Penguin Group USA

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• We want to empower our people; we want to strengthen them; we want to provide them with the kind of qualifications that will enable them to build up their own country themselves.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Country, People, Empowering

  BCUK Interview, burmacampaign.org.uk. June 17, 2002.

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• I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.

  Alexander Pope

  Believe, Good Writers, Rejecting

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.4

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• Back then, things were plainer: less money, no electronic devices, little fashion tyranny, no girlfriends. There was nothing to distract us from our human and filial duty which was to study, pass exams, use those qualifications to find a job, and then put together a way of life unthreateningly fuller than that of our parents, who would approve, while privately comparing it to their own earlier lives, which had been simpler, and therefore superior.

  Julian Barnes

  Fashion, Girlfriend, Jobs

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• A boardroom is a collection of individuals, and individuals have varying motives, egos, agendas and qualifications. Sometimes the dynamics can go off track.

  Carly Fiorina

  Track, Ego, Dynamics

  "A very bad business". Interview with Andrew Clark, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2006.

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• I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but the Navy, having left school at 13.

  Sean Connery

  School, Scotland, Navy

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• The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received.

  John le Carre

  People, Literature, Messages

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• The cliché is what are the qualifications for a federal Court of Appeals judge is somebody who knew a senator once. I mean the process of selection is deeply political and yet we expect the result to somehow stand above it.

  Deborah Rhode

  Mean, Judging, Political

  Source: www.slate.com

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• The biggest qualification to be a good police officer is to have a high degree of emotional intelligence.

  Peter James

  Emotional, Police, Degrees

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• The architects of this wickedness will find no safe harbor in this world. We will chase our enemies to the furthest corners of this Earth. It must be war without quarter, pursuit without rest, victory without qualification

  Tom DeLay

  Memorial Day, War, Enemy

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• Without revealing too much, there's a specific skill set you need to be in Loki's army - let me know if you have the qualifications.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Army, Skills, Needs

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