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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.”

School Law Difficult Race High School Relation Profession Race Relations Legal Profession

Author:Constance Baker Motley

“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”

Different Today Past Night Girl Differences Fashion Hard Work Models Harder Profession Weekend Modeling Work Harder Different Directions

Author:Claudia Schiffer

“One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year.”

Years Facts Problem Lasts Serious Profession Yesterday Last Year Harsh Priesthood

Author:Andrew Greeley

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

Careers Paid Profession Income Maximum Prostitution Apprentice

Book:In Darkest England and the Way Out

Source: In Darkest England and the Way Out

“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.”

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Author:John Grisham

“Growing up, I knew you were supposed to have a profession - and something better than being a shopkeeper, which is what my parents were.”

Parent Growing Up Growing Profession Something Better Shopkeepers

Author:Les Wexner

“Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. Excellence in any art or profession is attained only by hard and persistent work. Never believe that you are perfect. When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins.”

Men Years Believe Art Hard Work Perfect Imagine Perfection Excellence Strive Profession Decline Persistent Elixir Happiest Man Elixir Of Life

Author:Theodore Martin

“I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do.”

Stills Wanted Jobs Pay Offers Profession

Book:Chuck Jones: Conversations

Source: Chuck Jones: Conversations

“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.”

Knows Enough Kids Mother Father Teacher Profession Grandmother Grandfather My Grandmother My Grandfather

Author:Warren Beatty

“I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I'd end up doing other things, but that in the meantime I'd do plays.”

Ends Play Would Be Wanted Profession

Author:Gael Garcia Bernal

“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.”

Thinking Knows Reality Would Be School Middle High School Theater Profession Middle School

Author:Katie Cassidy

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

Way Writing Helping Lonely Profession

Author:Lincoln Child

“I think about food all the time. It's my passion; it's my profession. But some people think about food all the time because they're hungry. We can put an end to this if we join forces and lend a hand.”

People Ifs Thinking Ends Hands Passion Force Profession Hungry My Passion

Author:Cat Cora

“Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession.”

Social Justice Issues Teaching Social Justice Profession Passive Linked

Author:Bill Ayers

“Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad.”

People States United United States Profession Journalist Don't Trust

Author:Christiane Amanpour

“The best part of learning any profession, when you're really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much.”

Want Energy Huge Profession Stretching

Author:Diane Cilento

“Music isn't only a profession.”

Music Is Profession

Author:Jose Carreras

“Surveys show that many talented and committed young people are reluctant to enter teaching for the long haul because they think the profession is low-paying and not prestigious enough.”

People Thinking Long Enough Shows Young Teaching Lows Committed Profession Reluctant Surveys Haul Long Haul Prestigious

Author:Arne Duncan

“I used to skip out of high school and go flying. It was just one of those things, I thought it was kind of a cool thing to do. I never thought about doing that as a profession, but I started checking things out and I found out there was a flight school down in Daytona Beach, called Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.”

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Author:Jerry Doyle

“Instead of taking a very high-paying type of law job or something that I might be able to do, I have been a legislator. That's what I do. I think it's an honorable profession - if you're honest and have integrity and work hard.”

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Author:Russ Feingold

“I couldn't have left my career as an actor on a better note than to have done a cameo in the Lost In Space movie. Doing this part is the highlight of my career. What a way to leave the profession!”

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Author:Mark Goddard

“Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. That's what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession.”

Thinking Kind Might Film Opportunity Areas Profession Cool Things

Author:Joan Allen

“The thing about 'Soft Machine' and me was that I never considered another profession.”

Machines Profession

Author:Kevin Ayers

“Read, listen to and watch everything you can. Explore the corners of popular culture and the arts. And, of course, these days you have to stay maniacally plugged in to the cutting edge of whatever technology is taking your profession into the future - otherwise you're toast.”

Art Culture Courses Watches Technology Cutting Edges Corners Profession These Days Toasts Popular Culture Cutting Edge

Author:Tom Freston

“Economics was the only profession where a person could be considered an expert without having once been right.”

Persons Economics Financial Profession Experts Skeptical

Author:George Meany

“Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.”

Inspirational Different Inspiration Deals Keys Profession Phases Fatigue Inventing

Author:Malaika Arora Khan

“The University of North Carolina provided me with every tool necessary to rise to the top of my profession.”

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Author:Rick Dees

“My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.”

People Way Parent Virtue Teaching Raised Profession Medical Engaged Grandparent Lives Of Others Priesthood Medical Profession Complicity Parents And Grandparents

Author:Colin Firth

“Football is my profession now. I'm getting married in August... It's a new experience for me as someone just getting out of college. I still have the same attitude about football I always had. I play hard. I enjoy practice. I'd rather be throwing in passing drills than sitting around and watching TV.”

“For so many years fashion was shrouded in mystery, this glamorous profession that people knew very little about, they thought it was so glamorous. It now has become so available, with the Internet, with shops like H&M and Target that do designer collaborations, so it's more available to everyone and that's created more interest.”

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Author:Nina Garcia

“As I grew up, I was interested in other areas, too, especially literature. It became a major love of mine. Later, it became a difficult choice for me as to whether to major in music or literature. It wasn't until my 30s that I began a profession in music.”

Choices Literature Difficult Mines Grew Majors Grew Up Areas Profession Difficult Choices

Author:Tom Glazer

“People who put themselves on the line and sacrifice their own safety for the greater good and for others, and anyone in any profession whose concern is the welfare for other people instead of the individual, are inspiring and important.”

People Important Individual Lines Greater Sacrifice Concern Safety Profession Welfare Greater Good

Author:Chris Hemsworth

“In almost any profession, even if you're the kid of an actor, people are very supportive and want to see the next generation.”

People Ifs Want Kids Next Actors Generations Profession Supportive Next Generation

Author:Dhani Harrison

“In Wales, singing and storytelling are party skills, not professions.”

Party Skills Singing Profession Storytelling Wales

Author:Rhys Ifans

“I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.”

Facts Conscious Profession Privileged Unemployed

Author:Derek Jacobi

“My father and Mary Pickford were the reigning stars of not just Hollywood but of the world. Well, to bear my father's name was hard enough, but to work in pictures to boot was pretty foolhardy. In fact, my father was totally against it. He thought I should be off getting a good education and go into some safe profession.”

World Should Wells Hard Enough Facts Father Names Stars Bears Safe Hollywood Profession Boots Mary Good Education Foolhardy

Author:Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

“I wasn't sued out of medicine, I wasn't arbitrated out of the profession.”

Medicine Profession

Author:Ken Jeong

“Soldiering is a very important profession, is it not?”

Important Profession

Author:Mike Jackson

“You know, I consistently change in my own life so the roles I'm suitable for also change, and that's a really nice thing about this profession.”

Knows My Own Roles Nice Profession Consistently My Own Life Suitable Really Nice Nice Things

Author:Chris Klein

“Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.”

People Way Humans Different Felt Pleasure Taken Profession Professors Human Experience Different Directions

Author:Donald Kagan

“I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as well.”

Thinking Wells Ends Play Term Roles Discipline Program Structure Profession Architecture Abstraction Defining Organizational Organizational Structure

Author:Rem Koolhaas

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