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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Thomas Jefferson

Life, Men, Long

I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.
George Carlin

Away, Felt, Doctor

If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.
Red Adair

Job, Wait, Until

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
Hunter S. Thompson

Truth, Today, Past

In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
Carl Rogers

Change, Person, May

Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.
Brit Hume

Attitude, Fairness, Skill

So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one.
Sidney Poitier

Positive, Whatever, Accept

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
Richard Bach

Writer, Quit, Amateur

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.
Albert Pike

Men, Poor, Genius

I fought all my life for women to make their own choices, in their personal and professional lives. I made mine.
Hillary Clinton

Life, Women, Made

My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter.
Carroll O'Connor

Life, Laughter, Joy

A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us.
John Avlon

Someone, Political, Try

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Evan Esar

Education, Money, America

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.
Norman Schwarzkopf

War, Soldier, Means

I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver, and I believe we should cut the salaries of senators and congressmen 10 percent until they balance the budget. I call that conservative common sense.
Herman Cain

Problem, Sense, Until

Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.
Robert Anton Wilson

God, War, Liars

My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.
Jim Carrey

Time, Christmas, Alone

Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
Casey Stengel

Hurt, Woman, Baseball

So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.
George Jean Nathan

Girl, Long, May

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you - but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.
LeBron James

Forward, Try, Said

The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.
Dave Barry

Mean, Idiot, Used

I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home.
Quentin Tarantino

Good, Home, Thought

The major championships have always been a special focus in my career, and as a professional, I think Augusta is where I need to be.
Tiger Woods

Focus, Career, Special

I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.
Madeleine Albright

Life, Love, Women

I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.
Major Taylor

Good, Career, Living

I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.
Steve Martin

Funny, Best, Fact

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
Bette Davis

Business, Enemy, Regret

Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.
Camille Paglia

Why, Become, Poor

This wealth of experiences, personal and professional, have helped me appreciate the variety of perspectives that present themselves in every case that I hear.
Sonia Sotomayor

Personal, Themselves, Wealth

I never thought about becoming a professional singer, but I am in touch with Bono about releasing a musical movie. It will be about an Irish band during the '70s who are looking for fortune in Las Vegas. I should play the singer of the band but I don't want to sing in front of anybody.
Liam Neeson

Thought, Play, Looking

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