Occupation Quotes - Page 29

• Librarian like Stewardess, Certified Public Accountant, Used Car Salesman is one of those occupations that people assume attract a certain deformed personality.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Car, People, Personality

  Elizabeth McCracken (2013). “The Giant's House”, p.7, Random House

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• Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Doctors, Dangerous Man

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• Defeating ISIS. If we do not defeat them abroad, we will be facing more and more of a threat at home. This does not require an occupation or an enduring ground operation.

  Lee Zeldin

  Home, Isis, Doe

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• Teaching is too vital an occupation to be left to the lazy or greedy or negative

  Eliot Wigginton

  Teaching, Lazy, Negative

  Eliot Wigginton (1986). “Sometimes a Shining Moment: The Foxfire Experience”, Doubleday

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• He who busies himself in mean occupations, produces in the very pains he takes about things of little or no use, an evidence against himself of his negligence and indisposition to what is really good

  Plutarch

  Pain, Mean, Littles

  Plutarch (1861). “Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's”, p.319

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• One of my favorite occupations is making radio/video edits. I love singles.

  Justus Kohncke

  Video, Radio, My Favorite

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There used to be the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. There used to be Soviet troops in the GDR. And we must honestly admit that they were occupation troops, which remained in Germany after WWII under the guise of allied troops. Now these occupation troops are gone, the Soviet Union has collapsed, and the Warsaw Pact is no more. There is no Soviet threat, but NATO and U.S. troops are still in Europe. What for?

  Vladimir Putin

  Europe, Gone, Unions

  Source: russialist.org

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• There is something about permanent military occupation which seems to confine a man's scope and limit his opportunities; and after he has had a few years under the circumscribed conditions of official routine, he generally find himself wholly out of touch with civil occupation.

  John Monash

  Military, Opportunity, Men

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• Ultimately, suffering is always political with all kinds of justifications - there are those who justify Israel's occupation of land as being a fulfillment of what God had promised.

  Desmond Tutu

  Israel, Land, Political

  Interview With Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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• There are certain occupations - probably, most prominently, politics - where there would be a bias against somebody who's agnostic or atheist in running for office.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Atheist, Office

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• There are women (some men, too, but mostly women) who are going to the occupied Palestinian territories to stand with the victims of Israeli occupation. These are very courageous Israeli women and some British and American women. That's something quite new.

  Noam Chomsky

  Men, Israeli Occupation, Territory

  Source: www.madre.org

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• People who have been made stateless by military occupation are entitled to repatriation, and then the question is to which state, or to what polity or area? Those who have had their goods taken away are entitled to compensation of some kind. These are basic international laws.

  Judith Butler

  Military, Taken, Law

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• As I have said many times before, I was among the first people to experience the German Occupation of France during the Second World War. I was 7-13 years old during the War and did not really internalise its significance.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Years, People

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Under the Occupation, we in Nantes were denied access to the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. It was therefore not until after the War was over that I saw the sea for the first time, in the vicinity of St Nazaire. It was there that I discovered the bunkers.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Ocean, Sea

  Source: ctheory.net

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• By the next one [albom],Occupation: Foole, I was right back into the trip again. I'm more frantic, more breathless. You can hear how sick I am. If you want to see a cokehead, just look at the pictures on the Occupation: Foole album.

  George Carlin

  Sick, Albums, Looks

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• It's very hard, for example, to justify the thirty-four-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. It's very hard to justify 140 Israeli settlements and roughly 400,000 settlers. These actions were taken with the support and financing of the United States.

  Edward Said

  Taken, Years, Support

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Composing for concert performance is a somewhat lonely occupation, but composing a film score is highly collaborative.

  William P. Perry

  Lonely, Film, Concerts

  Source: www.empressbooks.com

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• It's priceless what you learn when you actually do. It's like going to film school times eleven. The best education is effectively to be functioning in the occupation that you want to take on.

  Lake Bell

  Want, Priceless, Best Education

  "Lake Bell on 'Man Up,' Simon Pegg, 'The Secret Life of Pets,' and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 12, 2015.

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• Something that has always attracted me to even taking on the occupation of actor is the idea that I could be lucky enough to portray different characterizations from different places in the world, whether it's speaking another language or taking on a dialect and building a history from where they were born. I was very attracted to that concept, in becoming an actor.

  Lake Bell

  Ideas, Different, Lucky

  "Lake Bell on ‘Man Up’, Simon Pegg, ‘The Secret Life of Pets’, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 12, 2015.

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• Slander is the biggest occupation of a man who produces nothing but lies!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Lying, Men, Produce

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• Iraq will require US occupation of undetermined length.

  Barack Obama

  Iraq, Length

  Speech Opposing the War in Iraq at Federal Plaza, delivered 2 October 2002, Chicago, Illinois

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• Prying into others' private affairs is the preferred occupation of small minds.

  Loretta Chase

  Mind, Affair, Small Minds

  Loretta Chase (2006). “Lord Perfect”, p.67, Penguin

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• Doing research in mathematics is frustrating and if being frustrated is something you cannot get used to, then mathematics may not be an ideal occupation for you.

  Peter Sarnak

  Frustrated, Research, May

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• The scientist does not defy the universe. He accepts it. It is his dish to savor, his realm to explore; it is his adventure and never-ending delight. It is complaisant and elusive but never dull. It is wonderful both in the small and in the large. In short, its exploration is the highest occupation for a gentleman.

  Isidor Isaac Rabi

  Adventure, Gentleman, Dull

  Isidor Isaac Rabi (1970). “Science: the center of culture”

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• I doubt if there is any occupation which is more consistently and unfairly demeaned, degraded, denounced, and deplored than banking.

  William Proxmire

  Doubt, Banking, Ifs

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