Quotes with profession

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  • Bette Davis I love my profession. I would never stop. Relax? I relax when I work. It's my life.
    Nina J. Easton, Los Angeles Times (January 4, 1989) Bette Davis smoking over Stepmother role
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • B. Carroll Reece In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.
    B. Carroll Reece
    American politician (1889 - 1961)
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  • Ronald Reagan It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Bertrand Russell It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • George Bernard Shaw It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • John Wooden It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Boris Sidis It is time that the medical and teaching profession should realize that functional neurosis is not congenital, not inborn, not hereditary, but is the result of a defective, fear-inspiring education in early child life.
    Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure (1922)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Samuel Johnson It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bill Fagerbakke It took me a few years to realize I might want to get into acting as a profession.
    Bill Fagerbakke
    American actor (1957 - )
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  • Katharine Hepburn It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.
    Katharine Hepburn
    American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Thomas More Lawyers, a profession it is to disguise matters.
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne My art and profession is to live.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • J. G. Ballard My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against the human race.
    Crash (1973)
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • George Bernard Shaw My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Boris Spassky Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people.
    Boris Spassky
    Russian chess grandmaster (1937 - )
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  • John Gay Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the quality are of the profession, he is admitted amongst the politest company.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Parentage is a very important profession; but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of children.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bebe Neuwirth People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well.
    Bebe Neuwirth
    American actress, singer and dancer (1958 - )
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  • William Hazlitt People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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