"I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that's how I started my career."
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"The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love."
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"I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past."
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"I've been around a lot longer than most rappers stay around. So I don't feel like, I haven't made too many career mistakes."
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"Opportunity is in the person, not the job."
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"Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things."
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"I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions."
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"I'd say I got three or four offers for films that had female directors, so in my career I haven't had that opportunity before. That's exciting."
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"Jenny Simpson loses her shoe in the women's fifteen hundred, with a lap and a half to go, destroying her chances to repeat as world champion, and she gives the most gracious interview afterward about how she's had a wonderful career already. Great for Jenny Simpson. Bad for the sport! We need drama!"
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"I think a trainer is very important at the beginning of a fighter's career. A fighter needs to know how to throw a left, throw a right, how to duck, how to do certain things. Over time, you don't really need a trainer. You've got to train yourself. You've got to motivate yourself. And I don't think anybody can put that in you."
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"[The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on ideas of whose truth we are wholly convinced, one that offers us largest scope in working for humanity and approaching that general goal towards which each profession offers only one of the means: the goal of perfection ... If he works only for himself he can become a famous scholar, a great sage, an excellent imaginative writer [ Dichter ], but never a perfected, a truly great man."
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"I said that my father was not a politician. I, instead, think I am. But not in the sense of being interested in a political career - rather in the sense that I think it necessary to strive to build a certain India, the India I want."
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"There is no handbook about how a career is going to go."
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"I know I'm happy and can't wait to see where my career will go next. This isn't the end for any of us. I can understand why they are upset but I want them to move forward and look for the future."
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"That's just a stressful way to live - saying, 'OK who's doing great, who's doing better than me?' ... Let me just worry about me. I'm not worried about anyone else. If you're doing fine, great; if you're struggling, I hope things get better for you. But I've got to be worried about my career."
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"Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get."
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"Even when I get to the point where I am acting and performing, where I want to be with my career, I'm never going to think of anyone as lower than me. Everyone's the celebrity of their own life, you know?"
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"When you have a lot of hits and your career starts to go down, but then your music starts to slowly go up again."
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"My career has kind of taken on a life of its own."
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"Every artist usually has one or two songs that really define their careers."
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