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• I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.

  Asa Gray

  Calling, Members, Knows

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• I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Home, Years, Hairdressing

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• I do this profession. I'm an actor. And it is, for me, an opportunity to meet people.

  Gerard Depardieu

  Opportunity, People, Actors

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• One of the advantages of my profession is I come into contact with many people.

  Gerard Depardieu

  People, Advantage, Contact

  "The big cheese: The crazy life of Gérard Depardieu" by James Mottram, www.independent.co.uk. April 30, 2011.

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• In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.

  Constance Baker Motley

  School, Race, Law

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• The difference between the girls today and models of the past is that we are not only interested in fashion: we are going in so many different directions at once. We work harder -- at night and on weekends. On the modeling profession

  Claudia Schiffer

  Girl, Fashion, Hard Work

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• The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice.

  William Booth

  Careers, Income, Prostitution

  William Booth (2014). “In Darkest England and the Way Out”, p.51, Cambridge University Press

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• I give off rather mixed messages about the law. On the one hand, I can honestly say I don't miss working in a law office. On the other hand I do enjoy watching the law and while the profession may have its problems, I have sold zillions of books out of magnifying them.

  John Grisham

  Book, Hands, Law

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• My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money.

  Warren Beatty

  Mother, Teacher, Father

  Interview with Carla Marinucci, www.sfgate.com. October 9, 2005.

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• I was in theater when I was in elementary, middle school and high school. I didn't know it would be an actual profession for me. I didn't think of it as a reality.

  Katie Cassidy

  School, Reality, Thinking

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

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• Writing on your own is, in a way, a very lonely profession. There's no one there to help you.

  Lincoln Child

  Lonely, Writing, Way

  "The Power of Two: Bonus Outtakes From WD Interview With Lincoln Child & Douglas Preston". Interview with Brian A. Klems, www.writersdigest.com. January 12, 2012.

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• I enjoy being an actress a lot, because I can feel different women's lives. I have the chance to feel like a geisha one day, and on another day maybe a scientist. That's the interesting part for me. My profession has helped me to grow up.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Growing Up, Grows

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

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• Intern will resonate not only with doctors, but with anyone who has struggled with the grand question 'What should I do with my life?' In a voice of profound honesty and intelligence, Sandeep Jauhar gives us an insider's look at the medical profession and also a dramatic account of the psychological challenges of early adulthood.

  Akhil Sharma

  Honesty, Voice, Doctors

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• Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.

  Dick Cavett

  Art, Teaching, Years

  Dick Cavett (2014). “Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks”, p.130, Henry Holt and Company

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• If you feel uncomfortable on stage, you can very easily descend into a sort of abyss, convinced you're the worst actor ever, that you're a disgrace to the profession, that you're a disgrace to yourself. It's an awful feeling.

  Stephen Dillane

  Feelings, Actors, Awful

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Frankly, to be honest, I hadn't worked for two years before 'Murphy Brown.' It's a nice illusion now to think of all of us as terribly successful and talented people at the top of our profession, but that's hindsight. I had to pray for a job like this.

  Charles Kimbrough

  Jobs, Nice, Successful

  "'Murphy Brown' interview". Interview with Alan Carter, ew.com. May 15, 1992.

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• All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.

  Oscar W. Firkins

  Peace, Men, Dinner

  Oscar W. Firkins (1934). “Memoirs and Letters”, p.94, U of Minnesota Press

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• Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job security.

  Alexander Herzen

  Jobs, Law, Liberty

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• In every single job, in every single business, in every single profession - in whatever you do - there can be the satisfaction and the happiness that comes from knowing that what you do is important, that what you do makes a difference in the lives of the people you serve.

  Wayne D. Dosick

  Jobs, Work, Differences

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• HOMŒOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Medical Profession, Humour

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.663, Library of America

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• Cooking was taken with such seriousness in France that even ordinary chefs were proud of their profession. That's what appealed to me.

  Julia Child

  Taken, Cooking, Ordinary

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The trick to any profession is making it look easy.

  Morgan Freeman

  Looks, Easy, Tricks

  "Morgan Freeman On Set Interview DOLPHIN TALE". Interview with Andre Dellamorte, collider.com. September 8, 2011.

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• In limited professions there's boundless theft.

  William Shakespeare

  Theft, Boundless

  "Timon of Athens". Act IV, scene 3, line 430, 1623.

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• It was a dangerous profession I had chosen ... because no one likes a funny kid. In fact, adults are scared silly of them and tend to warn children who act out that they are going to wind up in prison or worse. It is only when you grow up that they pay you vast sums of money to make them laugh.

  Art Buchwald

  Children, Growing Up, Silly

  Art Buchwald (1993). “Leaving home: a memoir”, Putnam Pub Group

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• I deplore the tendency, in some institutions, to go directly toward training for a trade or profession or something and ignoring the liberal arts. It is the foundation of education.

  Ronald Reagan

  Art, Training, Foundation

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1988). “Ronald Reagan”

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