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Tag Name "Profession" (937)

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The world needs writers. We will always be necessary. There are few professions that can claim that distinction.
Rod McKuen
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I would never say don't do acting [to my kids], because I think it is a glorious profession and I am so thankful for everything it has let me express.
Meryl Streep
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I guess the biggest difference between me and many of today's female graduate students is that a lot of them were raised by mothers with careers, and they got college degrees studying with female professors. Both of those factors make the enterprise of educating yourself for a serious profession seem feasible.
Debra Monroe
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I'm with an old family was the euphemism used to dignify the professions of white folks' cooks and maids who talked so affectedly among their own kind in Roxbury [Massachusetts] that you couldn't even understand them.
Malcolm X
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Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.
Jacques Barzun
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We are too quick to put labels on things. It is my profession. I get up and paint. Everyone wants to put a label on it, but I am a free spirit, so I fight against that.
Geoffrey Holder
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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.
Gael Garcia Bernal
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Apologists for the profession contend that lawyers are as honest as other men, but this is not very encouraging.
Ferdinand Lundberg
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Any profession of faith…entrusts the mind and heart to a truth that cannot be proven but can be lived.
Luke Timothy Johnson
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In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.
Loretta Young
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Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to put ourselves into their hands! What shame! Should we even accept that they talk about our work?
Edgar Degas
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The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.
George Eliot
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I love this profession, but God, it can just destroy people, and I don't want that to happen and become some monster.
Alyson Hannigan
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It is curious that we pay statesmen for what they say, not for what they do and judge of them from what they do, not from what they say. Hence they have one code of maxims for profession and another for practice, and make up their consciences as the Neapolitans do their beds, with one set of furniture for show and another for use.
Charles Caleb Colton
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The FDA and much, but not all, of the orthodox medical profession are actively hostile against vitamins and minerals... They are out to get the health food industry...And they are trying to do this out of active hostility and prejudice.
William Proxmire
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Reviewers do not read books with much care . . . their profession is more given to stupidity and malice and literary ignorance even than the profession of novelist.
Anthony Burgess
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my present Profession is Physick - Now, when my Pockets are full, I cure a Patient in three Days when they are empty, I keep him three Months.
Susanna Centlivre
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I don't think it's so important to be a movie director. It's a beautiful profession, but no more than to be a cartoon writer. A very rich cartoon writer. I've done a lot of films, and I know deeply that, in all of cinema, there is no director who is as good as Shakespeare.
Jesus Franco
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Being a poet is not a job or a profession but a way of life.
Kathleen Raine
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When you're talking about truth and love, you can wield your profession, your craft, in a way that hurts people because you're so good, and so when someone can present it in a way that is inviting people into their joy, that's when the most beautiful things are formed.
Josh Garrels
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No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.
Horace
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I knew that Jaye Davidson would not last because of that. I really liked him and thought he had incredible screen presence and talent, but I knew that he would not stay in that profession.
Roland Emmerich
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Charles Babbage
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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.
Chip Kelly
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