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Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024
the Week of Proper 8 / Ordinary 13
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Quotations regarding 'Profession'

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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
Olivier Martinez, French Actor (1966-  )
Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.
Edie McClurg, American Actress (1951-  )
If you would be just as content winning a local Golden Gloves fight as you would making a pile of money as a professional, then fine, go become a boxer. But if the whole idea is for you to get rich, my God, stay in school and learn a profession.
Gerald McRaney, American Actor (1947-  )
Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
Thomas Moore, Irish Poet (1779-1852)
With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.
Samuel E. Morison, American Historian (1887-1976)
I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it.
Van Morrison, British Musician (1945-  )
I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.
Constance Baker Motley, American Activist (1921-2005)
In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.
Constance Baker Motley, American Activist (1921-2005)
I kind of just lucked into and fell into the other profession. It was really just an outgrowth of the fact that when I was in art school, I had no money whatsoever.
Martin Mull, American Actor (1943-  )
Besides, I always thought that one of the great attractions of practising law was what I like to call the collegiality of the profession and I think that duty of collegiality applies even when we are retired.
Len G. Murray, Scottish Lawyer
I think a secure profession for young people is history teacher, because in the future, there will be so much more of it to teach.
Bill Muse, -
I really identified with Jess, because my own dream was acting, which isn't the most conventional profession.
Parminder Nagra, English Actress (1975-  )
People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well.
Bebe Neuwirth, American Actress (1958-  )
Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.
Paul Newman, American Actor (1925-2008)
Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
Lord Northcliffe, British Publisher (1865-1922)
Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.
Mary Oliver, American Poet (1935-  )
Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.
Wilfred Owen, English Soldier (1893-1918)
People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession.
Estelle Parsons, American Actress (1927-  )
There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.
Luciano Pavarotti, Italian Musician (1935-2007)
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
Pablo Picasso, Spanish Artist (1881-1973)
 
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