Long Careers Quotes - Page 2

• I think I went through everything anyone who had a long career needed. I needed quiet. I needed to raise my children.

  Ron Darling

  Children, Thinking, Careers

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• My father ran London Films. He made films like 'The Red Shoes,' 'The Third Man.' And he had had a long career in the film business, which was bifurcated with a career in intelligence. He had to deal with gangsters, and sometimes he would take me with him. Also, I went to school with their children.

  Mark Helprin

  Children, Father, School

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• I think I've been fortunate enough to have a fairly long career and hopefully I'm at the middle of it now. And I think I'm starting to develop a certain amount of experience and a certain amount of wisdom about kind of what really matters and what doesn't matter.

  Peter Berg

  Thinking, Careers, Long

  Source: collider.com

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• Looking at the players that are truly successful, you see the durability and long careers. Those are the players I respect and look up to. I hope to become a player like that.

  Daisuke Matsuzaka

  Successful, Player, Careers

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• I was really fortunate. I don't believe in luck so I was really fortunate. God really blessed me in terms of my health. ... I was really healthy. But I tried to do my part in terms of preparation, in terms of perseverance. I tried to do my part to make sure that I was always ready to play and try to stay ahead of the game. I tried to beat people with my mind. I wasn't the biggest or the one that jumped the highest, but I had a real high basketball IQ and I knew it. ... I was a student of game and tried to prepare and be professional and have a good attitude. All of those things helped me have a long career.

  Avery Johnson

  Basketball, Perseverance, Attitude

  "A conversation with New Jersey Nets head coach Avery Johnson". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. December 2011.

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• Remarks such as 'great Australian', 'larger than life' are sometimes used where they are not appropriate. But in the case of Kerry Packer both of those descriptions are entirely appropriate. He was a great Australian, he was a larger than life character and in so many ways he left his mark on the Australian community over a very long career in business, particularly in the media and also that other great passion of his, Australian sport

  John Howard

  Sports, Business, Character

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• It's better to not set your expectations high. And that's what happens when you have a long career - not every album is going to be record setting.

  Scott Weiland

  Careers, Long, Expectations

  Source: www.spin.com

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• I'd love to make a second film, I'd love to make a third, and I'd love to have a long career doing this.

  John Krokidas

  Careers, Long, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• Comics don't usually have very long careers, and I'm 22 years into this.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Years, Careers, Long

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• They're always surprised with what I want to do and don't want to do. I think they're surprised I don't want to do robo-tech. I don't know, it's like they want me to have a long career. And be prolific and make big movies.

  Cary Fukunaga

  Thinking, Careers, Long

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• The fact is that really no comedian sets out to offend you. Some comics enjoy the challenge of taking a subject that is likely to be found offensive and trying to make it funny‚ but the object is still to make you laugh. Offense is only a calculated risk. It's highly unlikely that a comedian whose only goal was to repulse you would ever make it past an open-mic stage, far less build a long career of touring theatres and television appearances.

  Doug Stanhope

  Past, Careers, Long

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• The best piece of advice I ever received about being a writer came from my brother Lee. I was just starting out and he told me that if I wanted to have a long career, I had to be versatile, that I shouldn't just think of myself in one way, because there would come a time when maybe that one thing wasn't working out for me - and I'd still want to earn a living as a writer.

  Tod Goldberg

  Brother, Thinking, Careers

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Donald [Trump] has had a long career of using great wealth and power trying to bully others.

  Ted Cruz

  Careers, Long, Bully

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• I want to congratulate Senator [Bernie] Sanders for the extraordinary campaign.... He has spent his long career in public service, fighting for progressive causes and principles, and he has excited millions of voters, especially young people.

  Hillary Clinton

  Fighting, Careers, Long

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• I was... 15? And Garry Marshall, who had many, many seasons in the sun and a very long career, was in the middle of the brightest of all his seasons - I think he owned network television - and it was his next thing, and he was directing [Mean Jeans ]. And I thought, "If there's anyone who can bring comedy out of a designer jeans shop, it's gotta be Garry."

  Rob Lowe

  Mean, Thinking, Jeans

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My ambition is to keep the audience guessing... that is my path to a long career.

  David Oyelowo

  Ambition, Careers, Long

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I feel 100% a Yamaha rider in my heart. I had a long career and raced with several factory bikes, but the highlight of my career is undoubtedly with Yamaha.

  Valentino Rossi

  Heart, Careers, Long

  Source: www.sportrider.com

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• When a highly successful leader retires after a long career, it is very unlikely that his successor will be of comparable caliber. Anyone of similar ability and drive would have gone somewhere else, instead of waiting in the wings for years for a chance to show his own leadership.

  Thomas Sowell

  Leadership, Successful, Years

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• Old age is a lease nature only signs as a particular favor, and it may be, to one, only in the space of two or three ages; and then with a pass to boot, to carry him through, all the traverses and difficulties she has strewed in the way of his long career.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Careers, Two, Space

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• What I wanted more than anything was a long career.

  Terence Stamp

  Careers, Long, Wanted

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. January 20, 2005.

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• I am hoping for a long career.

  Zoe Saldana

  Careers, Long

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• And I've been incredibly lucky to have a long career in journalism that has given me a front-row seat to some of the most important moments in modern American political life.

  Judy Woodruff

  Careers, Long, Political

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• I've had a long career and I want to continue to have a long career. The way to do that is not to go away.

  Chris Cornell

  Careers, Long, Going Away

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• A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Adversity, Past, Thinking

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• I had already done Rainbow in Curved Air and had a big record on CBS. I was launched to have a long career and then I just dropped out and went to India.

  Terry Riley

  Air, Careers, Long

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