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“The only kind of work which permits an able woman to realize her abilities fully, to achieve identity in society in a life plan that can encompass marriage and motherhood, is the kind that was forbidden by the feminine mystique, the lifelong commitment to an art or science, to politics or profession. If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.”

“Every year, hundreds of thousands of people try their hand at this demanding profession (humor columnist). After a few months, almost all of them have given up and gone back to the ninth grade.”

People Trying Years Hands Given Gone Months Profession Grades Given Up Columnists Ninth Grade

Book:Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down

Source: Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down

“The best that can be said for those like Senators Nelson and Landrieu is that they held out until Obama and Reid met their price. By now, I can't even recall what it took to make Joe Lieberman say 'Uncle!' But it just goes to prove that when politicians like these three refer to themselves as moderate Democrats, we should recognize that it's similar to the distinction made in a related field when call girls insist they're not streetwalkers. It's the same profession; only the prices differ.”

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Author:Burt Prelutsky

“I do - oh, indeed I do - desire to live up to my profession, to be His, for time and eternity. But I am learning to sec how very weak I am, and how easily Satan can conquer me even when I do strive against him. I do believe with my head that Jesus can, and will give me His grace, and I do not need to fear, yet somehow my heart seems to be hard and cold and not to take it in. Oh, if we were but there - where there is no more sin ! Oh do not forget to pray for me, and don't ever doubt the love of your unworthy friend.”

“Acting, is not a profession for adults.”

Acting Adults Profession

Author:Laurence Olivier

“He was a superb military officer but he was also an extraordinarily gifted politician. That he was an unusually open, honest and no-nonsense politician did not make him unsuited for the profession, only uncommon. In uniform and in politics Barry's purpose was always the defense of freedom. And nobody before or since managed the task more ably or more colorfully than Barry Goldwater.”

Purpose Honest Military Politician Tasks Defense Profession Nonsense Officers Uniforms Gifted Uncommon Superb No Nonsense

Author:John McCain

“Being a child is in itself a profession.”

Children Profession

Book:Party of One: The Selectd Writings of Clifton Fadiman

Source: Party of One: The Selectd Writings of Clifton Fadiman

“Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.”

Virtue Profession Ruins

Book:The Analects

Source: The Analects

“I never wanted to have a profession, and I've succeeded in not having one, or if I did have one it never paid, or it's never been especially long-term.”

Ifs Long Wanted Term Paid Profession Long Term

Author:Charlemagne Palestine

“I hung around hippie-ish kind of people and, first of all, they never made any money. If you never make any money, you never have to declare any profession!”

People Ifs Firsts Kind Made Profession Hung Hippie

Author:Charlemagne Palestine

“I had already been a young singer. And once, as a profession, I was a young singer, what you would call a soprano in England, but I was an alto in singing Jewish music in bar mitzvahs and weddings and synagogues throughout New York City because, after Israel, New York is probably the biggest Jewish community in the world.”

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Author:Charlemagne Palestine

“If you get into crime you gotta know that everybody's a criminal and everybody's a liar, and everybody has the potential to backstab you, because it's not an honest profession. So don't go into crime and look for honesty.”

Ifs Knows Looks Honest Crime Honesty Profession Criminals Liars

Author:Ice T

“I was so happy I didn't have to work that night. That was the truth, because show business is about the hardest profession in the world.”

World Shows Night Truth Is Profession Hardest Show Business

Author:Elaine Stritch

“The thing about writing in America is that writers in America have an arc. You enter writing as a career, you expect to be successful, and really it's the wrong thing. It's not a profession.”

Writing America Careers Successful Profession Being Successful Wrong Things Arcs

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“Writing is not a profession. It's a calling. It's almost holy.”

Writing Holy Calling Profession

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“The professions of novelist and journalist are very separate. As a novelist, you are ultimately working for yourself. Yes, you need the approval of a publisher and an audience, but what is valued in fiction writing - style, individual voice, insight - is scorned by the editor who is combing through your newspaper article.”

Needs Writing Individual Voice Fiction Audience Style Insight Profession Newspapers Journalist Novelists Editors Articles Approval Publishers Fiction Writing Writing Style Scorned

Author:Jon Weisman

“Education provides you a profession. But not vocation. You do it only because you need to work to earn money to buy your food, buy your clothes, pay the bills. Our life has a greater meaning, and a greater purpose.”

Needs Purpose Pay Greater Our Lives Clothes Bills Profession Vocation Greater Purpose

Author:Satish Kumar

“You have no skills in your hands. You have no education of understanding the meaning and the purpose and the compassion and the relationship. You have just a profession.”

Hands Purpose Understanding Compassion Skills Profession

Author:Satish Kumar

“If you have some other profession that allows you your evenings or weekends, terrific, stick with that. Having a profession other than writing also has the potential side benefit of providing you with material, something to write about.”

Ifs Writing Sides Materials Benefits Sticks Profession Evening Weekend Providing Terrific

Author:Debra Dean

“I grew up with a real appreciation about just how wonderful and intimate the relationship is between a doctor and a patient was and the sense that this was a noble profession.”

Real Wonderful Grew Grew Up Doctors Patient Appreciation Noble Profession Intimate Noble Profession

Author:Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

“There's a lot [of coaches], and I think in this profession, none of us invented this game, we got it from someone else, and if there's an idea, there's probably never been an original idea in football.”

Ifs Thinking Ideas Games Football Originals Profession Coaches Original Ideas

Author:Chip Kelly

“When you start writing things to try to persuade someone who's not already part of your guild or your profession that something is interesting, it forces you to ask yourself, "Well, why is this interesting?"”

Writing Trying Wells Asks Force Interesting Profession Guilds

Author:Paul Bloom

“When I started out in the profession, it was definitely about proving that I was worthy, but after achieving a certain amount of success, I realized I didn't have to prove anything to anybody.”

Certain Achieve Amount Prove Worthy Profession I Realized

Author:Naomie Harris

“I would say only be an actress if you genuinely feel the calling, because it's a tough profession.”

Ifs Feels Calling Tough Actresses Profession

Author:Naomie Harris

“I enjoyed meeting Emma [Watson]. I have a soft spot in my heart for child actors growing up. I know how hard that is. Having gone through that experience myself, I have a lot of sensitivity to it. For lack of a better word, I just feel like I love these kids, and I want them all to grow up and love themselves, and not get caught up in the wrong things, and to learn all the different things this profession has to give, and to understand it.”

“It's interesting to get older and realize that part of your job growing up in this profession is to help the next generation. More and more, with Boyhood and with Ellar Coltrane and with Emma [Watson], I start to see that role. There's no better way. Nobody wants advice, so you can't really give it. You just have to try to wish them well on their journey.”

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Author:Ethan Hawke

“Journalism is a great profession. It's complicated now. People talk about the demise of investigative reporting. I was a judge in some award contest recently, and the stuff that is being done by major newspapers, and local, regional papers around the country, is great. Newspapers play an amazing role in our society, and I still think they are important. I'm sorry newspaper circulation is down. Ultimately, the importance of newspapers can't be replaced.”

“My mother and father have brought us up to respect everyone with the same equal love and honor them, and you're supposed to honor your profession.”

Mother Father Honor Equal Profession Mother And Father Love And Honor Equal Love

Author:O'Shea Jackson, Jr.

“People like Tywin Lannister are very much victims of that system, and of that environment: 'This is my place, don't threaten it'. I don't know how relevant that is to today. Politics is the most corrupt profession on earth, no matter where you are.”

People Knows Matter Today Earth Know How Environment Victim Profession Where You Are Relevant Lannisters

Author:Charles Dance

“When I was contemplating medical school after graduating from Knox, several people suggested that nursing was a more suitable profession for women. My own mother discouraged me from becoming a doctor. But this is not why I became a nurse instead!”

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Author:Mary Pope Osborne

“In my profession you have to be very strong within yourself in order to block out the rejection and block out the opinions and the commentary that happens.”

Happens Order Strong Opinion Profession Block Rejection Very Strong Commentary

Author:Melanie Griffith

“Inquiry and curiosity is really important in any profession, but definitely in what I do. And in parallel you also need to be confident enough to try things. So it's a tricky thing sometimes to balance those two states.”

Needs Trying Two Important Sometimes States Enough Balance Curiosity Profession Inquiry Parallels Tricky Be Confident

Author:Cate Blanchett

“I was the best man at my younger brother's wedding and at the time part of my roast to him was I appreciated that he's done the only profession that makes me look good, running a used car dealership.”

Men Looks Done Running Used Car Brother Profession Appreciated Younger Brother Used Car

Author:David Plouffe

“I've been in contact with music since I was four or five years old through my father, because of the interest he had in music and all his musical skills. I finally managed to make that my profession.”

Years Father Interest Five Four Skills Musical Profession Contact Five Years Five Year Olds

Author:Rokia Traore

“My father was not able to get all the vinyl he used to listen to with me. He couldn't travel as he did it because of his profession as a diplomatic career.”

Able Used Father Careers Profession Diplomatic Vinyl

Author:Rokia Traore

“Architecture, in itself, at the end of the day, is a rational profession.”

Ends Profession Architecture Rational The End Of The Day

Author:Jimenez Lai

“Basically what you want in any profession - I would say the same thing if I were a lawyer or a doctor - is you want bright undergraduates to look at your profession as something they would be interested in getting into.”

Ifs Want Looks Would Be Doctors Profession What You Want Lawyer

Author:Louis Menand

“One of the good things about the profession of being a professor, is that you also have time to do what interests you and what you care about or what you're good at.”

Care Interest Good Things Profession Professors

Author:Louis Menand

“There was a moment of extraordinary humbleness and humility and pride, as well, with my father when he turned to me - and I think it was after I played Salieri in "Amadeus" at university. And he said, You're better than I ever was or ever could be, you should do this for profession. You'd have a good time.”

Thinking Should Wells Said Moments Father Humility Pride Extraordinary University Profession Good Times Be You Having A Good Time Humbleness Salieri Amadeus

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“I love to see actors' work. I love to surf channels late at night and accidentally run into movies I hadn't seen before. It makes me very proud of the profession.”

Running Night Actors Proud Late Profession Surf

Author:James Earl Jones

“The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.”

Men Integrity Profession Man Of Integrity

Author:Junius

“The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.”

Courage Soldier Profession Brave Soldiers

Author:Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

“In elementary and high school, I never considered acting as a profession.”

School Acting High School Profession

Author:Rashida Jones

“We have Trumpist (ph) tendencies in Europe. Look up Marine Le Pen in France. Look at the Five Star Movement headed by a clown by profession, Beppe Grillo, in Italy.”

Looks Stars Five Movement Europe Profession Tendencies France Look Up Pens Clown Marine

Author:Lionel Barber

“The good thing is I picked a profession that I'm passionate about.”

Good Things Passionate Profession

Author:Ainsley Earhardt

“I'm a woman, born the daughter of a feminist and the granddaughter of a feminist grandfather. I don't think I could have avoided working on women's issues. I don't do it as a career or profession; it's my very essence as a human being.”

Thinking Humans Born Human Beings Careers Issues Daughter Essence Feminist Profession Grandfather Avoided Granddaughter

Author:Vandana Shiva

“If you want to be a professional footballer, you have to respect your profession. You have to respect the people that are making you the star you are. You have to protect the passion every day.”

People Ifs Want Passion Stars Protect Everyday Profession Footballer

Author:Emmanuel Petit

“I strongly believe that journalism is one of the most noble professions, because without an informed world, and without an informed society, we are weak, we are weak.”

World Believe Weak Noble Profession Journalism Noble Profession

Author:Christiane Amanpour

“My mother dedicated over fifty years of her life to the nursing profession, giving selflessly of her time, energy, and passion for the benefit of others. I always marvel at what an indelible and honorable contribution she has made and hope to be able to make a similar impact over the course of my life and career.”

Giving Years Made Able Mother Passion Courses Energy Careers Benefits Impact Profession Contribution Fifty Dedicated Honorable Nursing Indelible

Author:Ian Anthony Dale

“I have been shaped by the experiences of the people who are closest to me, by the things I've learned from [my wife] Martha, by my hopes and my concerns for my children, Philip and Laura, by the experiences of members of my family, who are getting older, by my sister's experiences as a trial lawyer in a profession that has traditionally been dominated by men.”

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