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I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes.
Ben E. King

Cheating, Sometimes, Whole

I'm living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay.
Portia de Rossi

Life, Gay, Living

It is not easy to stand up against your constituents or your friends or colleagues or your community and take a tough stand for something you believe is right. Because you always want to keep working and live to fight another battle and it might cost you your career.
Caroline Kennedy

Live, Fight, Battle

You know, punk bands now sell with one record - their first or second record - sell 10 times the amount of records than the Ramones did throughout their career with 20-something records. That's why I go over to Johnny Ramone's house and do yard work three times a week, just to absolve some of the guilt.
Eddie Vedder

Work, Why, Times

People are very nice to me, and they've been nice as my career has gotten better and I've gotten more jobs. But the reality is that if I decided tomorrow that I didn't want to act anymore, it's not like people are going to be like, 'Please, come back!'
Rashida Jones

Nice, Tomorrow, Reality

For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews.
Joni Mitchell

Time, Working, Getting

I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.
Joni Mitchell

Sleep, Forget, Order

Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.
Joni Mitchell

Time, Sleep, Forget

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
Harry Browne

War, Government, Poverty

Music will always be my No. 1 passion, but I don't have to be doing it professionally. It's not really about that for me anymore. I feel like I don't have to look at it as a career. I can just rest in it and just be.
Jessica Simpson

Music, Passion, Rest

Image is the most important thing about someone's career and longevity.
Jessica Simpson

Important, Someone, Image

I think that having a public career is a bargain with the devil.
Jessica Simpson

Public, Devil, Bargain

I was feeling real good and real manly. Until a real cowboy walked by and told me I had my hat on backwards. So much for my career as a cowboy.
Michael Biehn

Good, Feeling, Real

Well, you've got certain obstacles that get in your way throughout your career, but you have to be a strong individual.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Strong, Individual, Obstacles

You know, I remember Career Day in high school. I remember plumbers and lawyers... I don't remember a booth where you could sign up to learn how to shoot chickens out of a cannon at the windshield of an airplane, 'cause there would have been a line at my school to do that!
Jeff Foxworthy

School, Remember, Learn

It's very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Hard, Different, Two

Having a career is a bit like navigating an Atlantic crossing - you have to make sure everything is keeping and is balanced.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Everything, Sure, Bit

'The English Patient' was a huge turning point in my career and my life; it became this huge thing. But the whole Oscar build-up got completely out of control; I spent more time talking about that film than I spent making it!
Kristin Scott Thomas

Life, Time, Control

I plan on staying at Alabama for the rest of my career. I guarantee that I'll be here for you through it all, regardless of what happens.
Bear Bryant

Through, Here, Plan

In my career, I'm very grateful for the opportunities.
Katherine Heigl

I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.
Bob Uecker

Baseball, Picture, Knew

My film career was always to support my theater career.
Kim Cattrall

Film, Support, Theater

In my life and career I want to embrace ageing because I think that's what's interesting.
Kim Cattrall

Life, Embrace, Ageing

You have to be desirable. And that's why so many woman of my age or even younger are pushed to Botox and plastic surgery, all the things that people say, 'Why do women do this?' Where do you go in your 50s in your career?
Kim Cattrall

Age, Women, Woman

About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.
Gene Tierney

Sometimes, Serious, Impatient

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.
Grace Paley

Life, Business, Word

At my age, no one is married, no one has kids, no one has a career.
Lena Dunham

Age, Kids, Married

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

Proud, Keep, Fact

The worst piece of advice I've gotten in my whole career is from somebody who said, 'Remember, it's all about likeability.'
Clive Owen

Remember, Said, Advice

Ultimately, to have a career in movies, to a certain extent, certainly in England, you can't sustain a career in just English movies.
Clive Owen

Movies, English, England

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