Careers Quotes · Page 229

This is my career. I have children to raise. I have to retaliate. Evander Holyfield butted me. Look at me. My kids…

— Mike Tyson

I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while... if…

— Sylvester Stallone

I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.

— James Ellroy

One of the things I'm most proud of about my career is the fact I've managed to keep options open.

— Clive Owen

By far, the best moment of my big league career was when I caught the last out at the World Series.

— Cal Ripken, Jr

Throughout my entire public career I have followed the personal philosophy that I am a free man, an American, a public servant,…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

When you have passionate fans, they feel like they're a part of your career.

— Drake

The thing political figures fear most is a terror event that will ruin their careers. The biggest thing they fear is that…

— Peggy Noonan

I have no control over people's perceptions of me at all and that's one of the things I decided very early on…

— Macaulay Culkin

I found in my whole career the best thing that can happen to you is that you hear what people want.

— Delia Smith

At the age of 15 months my daughter was diagnosed with very bad asthma, and essentially I put my career on hold…

— Paula Cole

I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person Ive worked with has helped me.

— Marian Seldes

Women’s magazines will often ask me things like, 'All right, I need six five-minute happiness strategies.' And I say, well, there aren’t…

— Sonja Lyubomirsky

I think people tend to believe that women who are successful are probably neglecting their children, possibly a bit hard-nosed and that…

— Jo Brand

I don't deliberately go into comedy or go into indies, but I do deliberately try to keep changing tact, because I think…

— John C. Reilly

Trump is the candidate giving voice to untold millions of fed-up Americans witnessing a purposeful destruction of our economy and the equal…

— Sarah Palin

You've got to be a little vicious. You've got to be narcissistic. You've got to be on fire about your career.

— Howard Stern

It's like a garden: Whatever you water the most will do the best. At some point, you decide whether you'll water your…

— Jewel

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.

— David Ogilvy

Also, I am very religious. It gave me peace of mind all my career.

— Emerson Fittipaldi

Knowledge is power. You can't begin a career, for that matter even a relationship, unless you know everything there is to know…

— Randeep Hooda

Believe me... I've made a career out of being the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the…

— Andy Warhol

I realised quite early on that, although I wasn't trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual,…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

I beg of you, you who could and should be bearing and rearing a family: Wives, come home from the typewriter, the…

— Spencer W. Kimball

I got my career start by first creating my own free, independent lifestyle in my own house out in the country. There…

— David Trubridge