Ronald Reagan
Politician, Actor
"I'm not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved."
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Profession
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Katharine Hepburn
Actress
"It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession."
Henry David Thoreau
Writer, Philosopher
"My profession is to always find God in nature."
Marcel Proust
Novelist
"Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice."
Octavia Butler
Author, Novelist
"Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it."
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"It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord."
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"I never talk about my wife: we're both in public professions but we try to keep our private life private."
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"Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue."
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"Let a man practice the profession which he best knows."
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"In limited professions there's boundless theft."
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"Architecture is not a profession, it is a discipline."
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"Writing ... is a profession that can only be learned by writing."
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"Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered."
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"I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously."
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"Her profession's her religion, her sin is lifelessness."
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"A man can be a hero in any profession"
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"All professions are... filled with demands."
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"Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession."
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"Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it."
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"Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession."
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"A woman is a full time job. You have to choose your profession."
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"Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession... and I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."
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"This is a profession in which how you look dictates whether or not you get work, so a model has to be healthy."
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"I was supposed to choose apractical profession, but this was simply unbearable to me."
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"Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered. It takes it out of you. It's very psychically wearing not to write - I mean if you're supposed to be writing."
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