Careers Quotes - Page 28

• I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Blessed, Ungrateful, Personal Grooming

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• There has never been a time when a career in the Penney Company was not a challenge that brought out the best in a man.

  James Cash Penney

  Men, Challenges, Company

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• I don't think that I've had a career like anyone else's, but there are hosts and hosts of actors whose careers I admire.

  Ron Perlman

  Thinking, Actors, Host

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• I think now that I'm in the autumn of my life, and I'm getting a chance of having an overview and looking at the shape of how things happen, when things happen, why things happen, I think it was fitting that I spent most of my early career doing mask work, because I just don't think I was that comfortable in my own skin.

  Ron Perlman

  Autumn, Thinking, Skins

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• There are definitely things about 'Legendary Child' that echo the music we did earlier in our career. It's got the right stuff.

  Joe Perry

  Children, Echoes, Stuff

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• My career is like an artichoke. People might think that the leaves are tasty and buttered up and delicious, and they don't even know that there's something magical hidden at the base of it. There's a whole other side of me that people didn't know existed.

  Katy Perry

  Thinking, People, Might

  "Katy Perry: The press is no friend to marriage". www.today.com. May 4, 2011.

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• My singing is really important to me, but when children come along they'll be my main focus. I'd never put my career in front of my babies - it'd be a case of fitting jobs around them.

  Katy Perry

  Baby, Jobs, Children

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

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• I said, going into acting, 'I'm never moving to L.A.,' because it scared me. But there was no way you could build an acting career in Orange County.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Moving, Orange, Acting

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• Might I be ridiculous? Might my career in music be laughable? Yeah, that's possible, but that's certainly not my intention.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Might, Ridiculous, Intention

  "Joaquin Phoenix Stuns 'Letterman' Audience With Amy Winehouse-Like Appearance", www.foxnews.com. February 12, 2009.

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• I'm never the kind of person who's sitting at home reading the charts and basing how I feel about myself or even my career on stats. I've always based it on, 'Am I doing the best that I can do?'

  Pink

  Reading, Home, Sitting

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• I always liked film as a teaching tool - a way of getting exposed to ideas that had never been presented to me. It just wasn't on the list of career options where I grew up.

  Brad Pitt

  Teaching, Ideas, Tools

  "Brad Pitt: A Life So Large" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. May 20, 2013.

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• When you first get opportunities, suddenly you get surrounded by a lot of people who want to make money off you but also are there to help. But they start telling you so much what you need to be and what you need to do to maintain some idea of career maintenance.

  Brad Pitt

  Opportunity, Ideas, People

  Interview with Jenelle Riley, www.backstage.com. January 25, 2012.

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• At this point in my career, it doesn't bother me much that I'm probably hopelessly typecast. I like to work, and horror films definitely keep me working.

  Donald Pleasence

  Hopeless, Horror, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career.

  Markus Zusak

  Book, Thieves, Firsts

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• At the beginning of my career I was going through a really weird phase of dressing in boys clothes. I would only wear one American Apparel T-shirt and shorts and brogues the whole year round. Not the same T-shirt, obviously, but one style of American Apparel T-shirt. I think I was going through a tomboy stage.

  Florence Welch

  Boys, Thinking, Years

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• I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Fashion, Half, Want

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• I'm so compulsive about stuff, I know if I had ever gotten pregnant, of course, that would have been my whole focus. But I didn't choose to have children because I'm focused on my career. And I just don't think, as compulsive as I am, that I could manage both.

  Betty White

  Children, Thinking, Focus

  "The white hot Betty White". Interview with Katie Couric, www.cbsnews.com. June 4, 2012.

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• I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.

  Olivia Wilde

  Years, Firsts

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• From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.

  Olivia Wilde

  Diversity, Decision, Age

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• I feel like I'm really young and I'm only thinking about my career and continuing playing.

  Serena Williams

  Thinking, Young, Continuing

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• Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.

  Venus Williams

  Sports, Thinking, Years

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• Any article's good. Long as it's publicity, I think that's all that matters. I think it's advancement for my career.

  Brian Wilson

  Thinking, Long, Advancement

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• Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.

  Cassandra Wilson

  Music, Phases, Muse

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• I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.

  E. O. Wilson

  Writing, Ideas, Mind

  "EO Wilson: Our Greatest Biologist Writes A Novel, ‘Anthill’ (INTERVIEW, EXCERPT)". Interview with Steve Ross, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2010.

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• My venture investing career has three phases, all roughly 6-8 years long. The first, at Euclid, was software to Internet. The second, at Flatiron, was Internet to bubble. And the third, at USV, has been web 2 to mobile. I have always used a new firm to denote a new investment phase for me. Throw away the old. Start with the new.

  Fred Wilson

  Years, Long, Investing

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