Careers Quotes - Page 5

• Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Influence, Persons

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• Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.

  Ron Silver

  Artist, Damage, Speak

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• I'd always had a childhood ambition to go into the investment capital business, and spent twenty-odd years in it. But the thought of spending the second half of my career in the same business was boring, so I looked around for other opportunities .

  Chris Corrigan

  Business, Ambition, Opportunity

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• Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.

  Joseph L. Mankiewicz

  Moving, Female, Needs

  Gary Carey, Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1972). “More about All about Eve”

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• I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while... if you keep on walking.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Journey, Thinking, Swings

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• I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums.

  Ice T

  Rap, Albums, Want

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• The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Happy, Encouraging

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• My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't.

  Beverly Sills

  Voice, Long, Bed

  "The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women". Book by Rosalie Maggio, 1992.

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• Wherever I went, crowds appeared again, and I started making solo albums for the first time in my career.

  Howard Keel

  Albums, Crowds, Firsts

  "Howard Keel" by Sheila Whitaker, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2004.

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• When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined.

  Leslie Caron

  Would Be, Lilies, Film

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• It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.

  Jessica Savitch

  Effort, Joints, Scientism

  Jessica Savitch (1982). “Anchorwoman”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a dollar bill, each different in design. Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other.

  Ivy Baker Priest

  Life, Women, Two Sides

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• A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn't have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible.

  Maria Sharapova

  Believe, Helping Others, Years

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• I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

  Ben Stiller

  Movie, Way, Comedy

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• As far as I am concerned, the first episode of Buffy was the beginning of my career. It was the first time I told a story from start to finish the way I wanted.

  Joss Whedon

  Stories, Way, Firsts

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• Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers.

  Layne Staley

  Song, Perception, Stage

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• But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'

  Gertrude Stein

  Men, Problem, Speak

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• That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house.

  Anne McCaffrey

  House, Thrill, Stories

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• There are people who appear in the magazines and I don't know who they are. I've never seen anything they've done and their careers are over already. They're famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold.

  Matt Damon

  Real, Thinking, Long

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

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• I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.

  Bob Uecker

  Baseball, Cards, Funny Baseball

  Bill Schroeder, Drew Olson, Craig Counsell, Bob Uecker (2016). “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box”, p.45, Triumph Books

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• But when it became an international hoopla where careers lived and died on whether or not you did or didn't get an Oscar, then it got out of hand.

  George C. Scott

  Hands, Oscars, International

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

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• Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do.

  Aaron Eckhart

  Jobs, Toilets, Wells

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• I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12

  Johnny Winter

  Music, Play, Age

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• I think American Idol is a great career launcher.  A blessing for all of us.

  LaToya London

  Blessing, Thinking, Idols

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• I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.

  Jacob Lew

  Thinking, Differences, People

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