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- Nov 07, 2020
Entire Career Quotes
Lines on giving decades to one calling.
These entire career quotes come from people looking back on years spent in one field, from teaching to sport, and what it costs to stay in it. Pair them with more Career lines for a fuller picture of working life.
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- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thus far, I've devoted my entire career to publishing genre short fiction, but I now look forward to applying that same level of curation to finding the best new novels and new authors.
- Better Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
My ex-boyfriend said, 'You have a better chance of getting elected to Congress than getting on the staff of a television show.' Which was the perfect thing for him to say, because my entire career is, 'Well, screw you.' And we broke up.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was especially hard for me, as a professional pilot. In all of my years of flying - including combat in Korea - this was the first time that my aircraft and I had not come back together. In my entire career as a pilot, 'Liberty Bell' was the first thing I had ever lost.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I'm most proud of is I went through my entire career drug-free.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to make my entire career as the guy who did not get cheered. Of course, I'm still going to get cheered by people who think they're smart, and that's fine - they're acknowledging how good I am at my job - but I don't want cheers; I want the boos. I love it.
- Nov 07, 2020
I probably have more words to say in 'Mr. Robot' than I've had in my entire career put together.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trouble is the field of science, medicine, universities, biotech companies - you name it - have been so splintered, layers, sub-divided, hacked that people can spend their entire career studying one tiny little cog of life.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do believe that belief is the most powerful thing we have in this world. So, if we believe in something enough. And we have faith, we can make it a reality. That is basically the basis of my entire career and my entire life.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't spent my entire career playing the guy in the bad hat, although I have to say that the bad guy is frequently much more interesting than the good guy.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm what you call a good, old-fashioned working actor who has had delusions of grandeur for my entire career and has known what I want to do, but there's a lot going on out there. There are a lot fewer films being made, and there's a lot of competition.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's become an economic necessity for people to be able to learn and grow throughout their lives, because most people can't get through their entire career with one skill set. We have to keep reinventing ourselves.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a country musician. I know how to play jazz, and I can play rock. But I've had to fight my entire career to get a little respect from people who don't understand where I come from.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can go and fight, take one punch, and have a concussion and start having issues with it, or I can wrestle my entire career and never have a concussion. It's just a hazard of the business.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020