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Tag Name "Profession" (936)

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I have not eaten enough of the tree of knowledge, though in my profession I am obligated to feed on it regularly.
Albert Einstein
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Well, you know, if you get into the profession because you think you can make a lot of money, you can never become successful.
Martin Yan
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I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
Jack Kevorkian
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Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.
W. H. Auden
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Painting pictures is simply the official, the daily work, the profession, and in the case of the watercolours I can sooner afford to follow my mood, my spirits.
Gerhard Richter
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In the United States, politics is a profession, whereas in Europe it is a right and a duty .
Umberto Eco
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What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.
Camille Paglia
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I happened to write a book about the stuff I've been involved in over the years. It just so happened that my profession is that I was a cop in the New York City Police Department. I guess people thought it was pretty interesting to have these two things meshed together. My life is pretty boring, I don't know why they're doing this. It's fun.
Ralph Sarchie
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I have no wish to be remembered as a painter, for I never was a painter my idea of that profession was perhaps too exalted I may say, is too exalted. I leave it to others more worthy to fill the niches of art.
Samuel Morse
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Singers attract fans with aspects of their own personality. People feel I'm passionate and obsessive. They know this isn't a profession for me, it's a vocation. It's not an egotistical thing, but something else. I'm in a dialogue with my audience, and that's something I need
Steven Morrissey
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The flight of most members of a profession to the high empyrean, where they can work peacefully on purely scientific problems, isolated from the turmoil of real life, was perhaps quite appropriate at an earlier stage of science but in today's world it is a luxury we cannot afford.
Gerald Holton
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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
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One of the basic troubles with radio and television news is that both instruments have grown up as an incompatible combination of show business, advertising and news. Each of the three is a rather bizarre and demanding profession. And when you get all three under one roof, the dust never settles.
Edward R. Murrow
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My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Mathematicians grow very old it is a healthy profession. The reason you live long is that you have pleasant thoughts. Math and physics are very pleasant things to do.
Dirk Jan Struik
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My main hope for my children would be that whatever profession or calling they choose in life, that they pursue it with passion.
Shakira
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I only took a high school acting class because there was no other class I wanted to take. I loved it, but I was always against acting as a profession. I didn't like the monetary fluctuations I saw.
Josh Brolin
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If you enjoy shaming people, I suggest dentistry as a profession.
Bonnie McFarlane
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One of the things I like about my profession, and that I find healthy, is that one constantly has to break oneself to pieces.
Liv Ullmann
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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
Thomas More
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Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means.
P. T. Barnum
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The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.
John Nelson Darby
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At a certain point you have to make a decision in your life about where will you best serve, and I decided that I would best serve as a producer as opposed to a studio executive. There are many upsides to being the studio executive, but one of the downsides is that you get removed from the actual process of making the movie.
Adam Leipzig
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But accuracy means something to me. It's vital to my sense of values. I've learned not to trust people who are inaccurate. Every aviator knows that if mechanics are inaccurate. aircraft crash.
Charles Lindbergh
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