"Congrats to Clare Farnsworth on a legendary career! One of the all-time great Seahawks! We will miss you Clare!"
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"I saw that I could not afford the luxury of just being an actress. So I made a choice to use my career as a platform to address the issues of the race I was born into."
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"I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ’cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself."
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"My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go."
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"nothing is more important than empathy for another human being's suffering. Nothing. Not a career, not wealth, not intelligence, certainly not status. We have to feel for one another if we're going to survive with dignity."
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"I always believed that I’d return to Cleveland and finish my career there."
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"I started at Pillsbury as a manager in one of their analysis functions, then worked my way up the corporate ladder to become vice president. Moving to Burger King was an important moment in my career."
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"An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous merriment, cannot always be satisfied to set aside her whole career, in the work that she loves, simply because she is married."
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"It'd be the thrill of anyone's bull riding career to ride Red Rock. Like when Freckles Brown rode Tornado."
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"If I had to think of what I would do different in my whole career, it's that I never would have picked up a beer, bottle of vodka. That definitely changed my life. That is an Achilles' heel for me."
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"No free people ever existed, or can ever exist, without keeping the purse strings in their own hands. Where this is the case, they have a constitutional check upon the administration, which may thereby by brought into order without violence. But when such a power is not lodged in the people, oppression proceeds uncontrolled in its career, till the governed, transported into rage, seek redress in the midst of blood and confusion."
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"Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self. The one you've buried beneath other people's needs."
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"The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest."
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"No Life can pompless pass away - The lowliest career To the same Pageant wends its way As that exalted here -"
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"Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you've done what you are expected to do."
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"As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing."
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"Whether you want to uncover the secrets of the universe, or you just want to pursue a career in the 21st century, basic computer programming is an essential skill to learn"
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"Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career."
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"I have always loved the Bay Area. I spent a lot of time in the Bay Area. I started my career there. That's a huge part of the excitement for me."
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"I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career."
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