"I'm only interested in two kinds of people, those who can entertain me and those who can advance my career."
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"Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers."
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"I'm not going to wallow in self-pity and not live my life. There are always going to be some falls in life for everybody, no matter what career you have. You have to roll with the punches and keep going."
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"Who would you vote most likely to succeed? Bob Arum - White, Jewish, a graduate of Harvard, a Kennady Raider, United States Attorney. Don King - black, poor, out of the hard core getto of Cleveland, Ohio, numbers runner, a little confectionary dealer, ex-convict. Now who would you vote to succeed? It would be hands down........ Yet in this great land called America, I have out performed, outachieved, been more recognizable, did more, broke more records, and had more of a phenominal career, where Arum can't tie my shoe string. You understand?"
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"I think most players would love, at one stage in their career, to say, 'I've been No. 1 in the world."
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"We go through our careers and things happen to us. Those experiences made me what I am."
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"If you follow your bliss...the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living."
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"I always knew that someone was going to come at me with a script to play God. It's just one of those things, the way your career is unfolding and all the talk about gravitas etc etc, so I had a strong feeling that someone was going to offer me the part of God. I was totally prepared to say, 'Thanks but no thanks,' unless it was a comedy."
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"We prepare our students for jobs and careers, but we don't teach them to think as individuals about what kind of world they would create."
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"The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week."
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"A career is born in public - talent in privacy."
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"I can say is if anyone gets a chance to work with [Dr.]Dre, it's a moment you will always take with you throughout your career. And as of right now, the Compton album is the only thing to talk about."
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"There is so much temptation to hold on to my career even more now. To try to micromanage and dictate every little aspect. But that's not how I want to do things anymore. I'm thinking about how can I trust God more. How can I surrender more? How can I bring him more glory? It's a fight. But it's one I'm going to keep fighting."
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"You can be a good mom and still work out, get your rest, have a career - or not. My mother encouraged me to find that balance."
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"One can be respected with the truth in Hollywood just as much as anywhere else you know or else I wouldn't have had a career."
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"My parents kept the best aspects of the Asian culture, and they Americanized the family. My mother was a great example for me. She was a working mother with a good career."
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"Feeling confident - or pretending that you feel confident - is necessary to reach for opportunities. It's a cliché, but opportunities are rarely offered; they're seized."
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"Called to the throne by the voice of the people, my maxim has always been: A career open to talent without distinction of birth. It is this system of equality for which the European oligarchy detests me"
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"What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan to work. You just can't wing it. I can't get all the materials I need for a house and just start building. Whether it's a career, family, life - you have to plan it out."
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"To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole."
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