"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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"I think [teacher] is the noblest profession."
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"The profession I chose was politics; the profession I entered was law. I entered the one because I thought it would lead to the other."
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"I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it."
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"Every Man owes some of his time to the upbuilding of the profession to which he belongs."
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"I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do."
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"I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession."
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"Let passion drive your profession."
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"Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science."
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"Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]"
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"Every profession is a conspiracy against the laity."
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"Acting became more than a profession to me. It became a sort of religion."
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"...A traveller is to be reverenced as such. His profession is the best symbol of our life. Going from - toward; it is the history of every one of us. It is a great art to saunter."
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"Beware of any profession for which you must buy new clothes."
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"Acting is the loneliest profession I know."
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"It's a profession where merit is not necessarily rewarded."
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