Careers Quotes - Page 19

• My parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.

  Al Franken

  Dad, School, Parent

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• At times it's been weird because for the first phase of my career, I've been really well-known for a character that I was so not like and a character I never anticipated doing.

  Sean William Scott

  Character, Phases, Firsts

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• Well, I don't think there's any need for people to focus on my career.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, People, Focus

  "Q&A: Gates talks about letting go, the future and the foundation". Interview with Todd Bishop and Tom Paulson, www.seattlepi.com. June 23, 2008.

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• When I had no shoes I was comfortable - I used to run barefoot. When I wore shoes it was difficult. To run in shoes was ok, but at the beginning of my career it was hard.

  Haile Gebrselassie

  Running, Shoes, Used

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• A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction to safely assimilate our dissident influence, such as it was. Cyberpunk could then be embraced and given prizes and patted on the head, and genre science fiction could continue unchanged.

  William Gibson

  Two, Labels, Fiction

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• I maintain that when I finally retire from my career in music, I will go and live back in Wales - when I am an old person, if I live to be an old person. The water I miss, and the air, there's something different about it. And I miss the simple life.

  Ellie Goulding

  Simple, Air, Water

  "Ellie Goulding: pop sensation". Interview with Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2009.

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• I started getting these attacks in 2009, just as my music career was taking off. I'd be doing photo-shoots and started to feel like I was having heart attacks. Increasingly I found it difficult to step outside my flat. Things started to get better after I saw a therapist, who told me I needed to make peace with my panic attacks.

  Ellie Goulding

  Heart, Get Better, Panic Attacks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Studies have shown that since women have had access to the pill and family planning measures, they have made huge gains in both wages and in careers that were dominated by men.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Men, Pills, Wages

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• I remember getting this scrapbook that this girl made, that I actually gave to my mom to hold onto because she has a 'Twilight' shrine in their house in Florida. It was just this scrapbook of me, starting with 'Twilight,' and the whole progression of me and my career throughout that, and other stuff that I had done in between.

  Ashley Greene

  Girl, Mom, Twilight

  "Ashley Greene Talks The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 and Olivia Twisted". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 13, 2011.

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• Look at guys like Larry Bird and George Brett and John McEnroe; that's what they did in their careers. They all wanted to be the guy under the microscope late in the game or late in the match. So you just take on that know-how that that's part of your responsibility, and you learn that's what makes it exciting. That's what makes it fun!

  Wayne Gretzky

  Fun, Responsibility, Games

  Interview With James Bassil, www.askmen.com.

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• Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career.

  Matt Groening

  Writing, Two, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

  Dan Quayle

  Believe, Politics, Public Service

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• I'm a huge fan of Brad Pitt. He could have done rom-coms his entire career, but he took it in a different direction.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Fans, Different, Done

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• My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.

  Jack Nicholson

  Hate, Thinking, Play

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• Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Rivals, Wells

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• I learned early in my career, where you get so wrapped up and so excited, that all of a sudden you don't think. So I worked very hard to keep myself suppressed. And that's one of the reasons I wasn't gregarious with the gallery.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Thinking, Excited, Reason

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• The Senior Tour is a good concept, although frankly I'm not astounded at its continued success. It gives a lot of guys an opportunity to extend their careers.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Senior, Opportunity, Giving

  The Golf Magazine Interview, www.golf.com. September, 1988.

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• All I could think about was, 'I just wanna blow him away. I wanna make him proud, because I really wanna sign with Timbaland and spend the rest of my career making music with Tim.'

  Brandy Norwood

  Blow, Thinking, Proud

  "Brandy thanks Timberland for endorsing her new rap career" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. December 9, 2009.

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• I'm healthy, have a loving and adorable family, great hunting dogs, a gravity defying musical career and most importantly, fuzzy-headed idiots hate me.

  Ted Nugent

  Dog, Hate, Hunting

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• Any time anyone says anything nice about me, whether it's Lady Gaga or your neighbor, it's a nice feeling, I'm very grateful for it. It's very helpful for your career. Every time someone says something complimentary it introduces you to their audience. It gives you credibility.

  Gary Numan

  Nice, Grateful, Giving

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• For some reason, I find that in the course of my career I've worked with more women than most men have.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Men, Reason, Courses

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

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• The Parent Trap gave my career another boost, starring in family comedies.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Parent, Comedy, Boost

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• Filming 'The Road to Riches' was surprisingly difficult for me. I learned that going back to career successes and failures can be emotionally exhausting as you are forced to revisit the euphoric highs and painful lows in high speed.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Riches, Painful, Speed

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• I've been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.

  Barack Obama

  Fighting, Issues, Acorns

  "Did Obama Lie About Relationship With ACORN?". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. February 22, 2010.

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• I prefer career artists that have spent time honing their craft, as opposed to, 'I won a karaoke contest on a reality show and now I have a record.' That's such a drag. The music that comes out of it is so poor.

  Conor Oberst

  Artist, Reality, Records

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