Profession Quotes

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It's a privilege, you know, to paint and it takes up a lot of time and it means there's a lot of things you don't… — Alice Neel
Acting is not a genteel profession. Actors used to be buried at a crossroads with a stake through the heart. Those people's performances so troubled… — David Mamet
A whole generation of veteran composers has never taken a stand or provided an example and has produced in the music academies generations of docile… — Itay Talgam
The single most important thing in my life is God. The second most important thing in my life is my family and the third thing… — Sam Rutigliano
Umpiring is best described as the profession of standing between two seven-year olds with one ice cream cone. — Ron Luciano
Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place and it works over the generations because people go… — Frank Gehry
Making movies is my profession. I like doing it a lot. — Lawrence Bender
Third, and finally, the educated citizen has an obligation to uphold the law. This is the obligation of every citizen in a free and peaceful… — John F. Kennedy
For a long time visits among lovers and professions of love are kept up through habit, after their behavior has plainly proved that love no… — Jean de la Bruyere
The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubly ruined. He adds his soul to every other loss, and by the act… — Charles Caleb Colton
Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
That humanity and sincerity which dispose men to resist injustice and tyranny render them unfit to cope with the cunning and power of those who… — William Hazlitt
[The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on ideas of whose… — Karl Marx
Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real one is closer… — Rainer Maria Rilke
La chose la plus importante a'Â Â toute la vie est le choix du meÂ tier: le hasard en dispose. The most important thing in life… — Blaise Pascal
That's kind of the nature of the profession I'm in. It's frustrating. Things don't go your way, and I was no exception, in that I… — Will Arnett
I'm a night owl, and luckily my profession supports that. The best ideas come to me in the dead of night. — Josh Fox
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession. — Robert Frost
Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go… — Henry Louis Gates
Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half… — William Glasser

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