"Babe Ruth was not afraid to strike out. And it was this fearlessness that contributed to his remarkable career."
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"I have asked students at the beginning of their careers, what things of that sort might haunt them – what things they must photograph, things they have to try to shoot even before they master the intricacies of making dye transfer prints."
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"A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right."
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"I've seen, all too often in my career, people coming in to lead agencies and organizations and trying to impose change from the top down. Never works. You never have enough time."
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"Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar."
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"That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals."
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"It's great to see the World Rowing Championships returning to U.S. soil for the first time in 25 years. I am even more excited that it will be taking place in my home state of Florida. Regardless of where my rowing career takes me, I am sure to be in attendance in Sarasota in 2017."
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"It's been said that as we move through life, we have to juggle a number of different balls. Some balls, like the one that represents career, are made of rubber. If we drop them, they have the ability to bounce back. But some balls are made of glass - family is like that. If you drop that ball, it doesn't come back."
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"James Burton was playing some pure roots stuff. Gram Parsons took an interest in that record [in '68-'69] and he admired it. I never had the concept that I'm going to go somewhere and I'm going to have this career. I just really never thought about all that."
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"The tradition of portrait painting, to embellish or idealize the subject, remains the aim of everyday and of commercial photography, but it has had a much more limited career in photography considered as art. Generally speaking, the honors have gone to the Cordelias."
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"The photographer's intentions do not determine the meaning of a photograph, which will have its own career, blown by the whims and loyalties of the diverse communities that have use for it."
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"I abused my body so much throughout my career that I am literally held together by glue. The stuff I took thickens the bones and reinforces the tendons."
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"I've always said that the artist dies twice. And the first death is the hardest which is the career death, the creative death. The physical death is an inevitability."
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"In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing career."
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"A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots."
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"A man doesn't amount to something because he has been successful at a third-rate career like journalism. It is evidence, that's all: evidence that if he buckled down and worked hard, he might some day do something really worth doing."
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"I am very pleased to be involved with the Daniel Pearl Music Days committee because its message resonates with me on a very personal level, My own career is an example of the universal power of music, especially the power of Hip Hop, to bring people of different backgrounds together for a common purpose. I hope that my commitment to the Daniel Pearl Music Days committee will encourage all music lovers - both amateurs and professionals - to get involved with the Music Days performance network and contribute to the 'Harmony For Humanity' e-Stage."
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"I will never stop doing stand-up; that's my career, but I will do movies in Hollywood."
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"No one wants to sell to just 12% of the population for the entire length of their careers. It creates a difficult and less-profitable environment. But Hollywood has lived with that limiting mantra, and only a few black stars have managed to break through."
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"It's always marketeers building their own careers."
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