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I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.
William Howard Taft

Tired, Talk, Getting

Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation.
Jane Smiley

Nature, Good, Evil

People who put themselves on the line and sacrifice their own safety for the greater good and for others, and anyone in any profession whose concern is the welfare for other people instead of the individual, are inspiring and important.
Chris Hemsworth

Good, Important, Sacrifice

In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Charles Babbage

Law, Cannot, Talent

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.
Charles Babbage

History, Knowledge, Science

In Hungary acting is a profession. In America it is a decision.
Bela Lugosi

Decision, America, Acting

I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.
Bela Lugosi

Work, Enjoy, Getting

I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.
Vidal Sassoon

Change, Home, After

In my profession, I'm around a lot of people whose bodies are their instruments in one way or another.
Anna Deavere Smith

Around, Another, Whose

Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession.
Russell Crowe

Reality, Another, Actor

My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.
Condoleezza Rice

Great, Respect, Teacher

There are absolutely lots of teachers who are trying to come into the profession, but they are not attracted enough to say, 'I'm going to switch careers to do it,' or they are often not retained... because the salaries and the compensation aren't there to make it happen.
Melinda Gates

Happen, Trying, Enough

I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can't physically entertain any longer. It's what I was born to do, and I love this profession.
Bette Midler

Love, Hope, Keep

Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.
Lauren Bacall

Accident, Stardom

I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
Jack Kevorkian

Death, Medical, Trying

I'm on my feet and I'm doing what I love to do, and I'm in a profession, as a musician, where we can go on for as long as we can go on.
Ringo Starr

Love, Long, Feet

I didn't want to lose my sense of myself in my profession.
Marissa Mayer

The thing I really look for in this business is there are guys who are into football and there are guys who are in the profession for other reasons.
Bill Parcells

Business, Football, Guys

Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.
Ian Botham

Sports, Cricket, Trials

The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.
Patrick Stewart

Find, Company, Happened

But boxing was my profession. I had to go back the second time because I was broke and I couldn't just go and get a college degree and earn it. I had too many bills, too many families.
George Foreman

Time, College, Boxing

Music isn't only a profession.
Jose Carreras

The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.
Helmut Jahn

Integrity, Lost, Here

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.
Mary Oliver

Life, Poetry, Put

It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people.
Amy Poehler

Good, Best, Art

I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it.
Van Morrison

Music, Hate, Writing

I give off rather mixed messages about the law. On the one hand, I can honestly say I don't miss working in a law office. On the other hand I do enjoy watching the law and while the profession may have its problems, I have sold zillions of books out of magnifying them.
John Grisham

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Journalism, Magazine, Literary

While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the appropriate elected representatives of the American people.
John O. Brennan

Important, American, While

The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.
Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

Courage, Knowledge, Soldier

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