Over the course of my career, which is about 40 years, I've visited plenty of prisons and I know what they're like.

A man I respected very early in my career told me, 'If you wanna truly be good at this, you have to learn to hate.'

A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies.

I think it's very empowering to be able to have a career and to be a mother. It gives you an amazing sense of self.

I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.

The Federalist Society has done more for the health of the law than any organization I have witnessed in my career.

In terms of my career and stuff, Game of Thrones has just been such a blessing because people really love the show.

I played for nine different teams throughout my 22-year major league career and I loved every moment of every team.

For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews.

At some point in my career, I was thinking, "Why am I not a star? Why am I not Brad Pitt? Why am I not Tom Cruise?"

Every fight can be the last one, that's why for every fight I prepare myself like it's the last fight of my career.

I'm so lucky to have a career in my fifties. And to still have the desire to do it. I don't think about retirement.

Answering ads rarely works for career changers because you have no experience in the job for which you're applying.

I'm relaxed about my career. I've been making movies for over 20 years, so I've earned at least the right to relax.

I'm really fortunate because, in my career, I haven't had to deal with anybody trying to make me something I'm not.

I had a good political career, and I have a good business career. I didn't get the brass ring. But I did very well.

Were all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore.

I think it's unfortunate how many people today try to build up their own careers by denigrating the work of others.

Dirk Gently has been a long passion (my career started with Douglas Adams and my stage adaptation of Dirk Gently) .

Got in the studio at sixteen, [and] that's when I felt like I wanted to make this a career. I had a passion for it.

You can't buy back your respect; you can't buy back your career. You only get one, so I don't want to mess that up.

The best way to make room for both life and career is to make choices deliberately-to set limits and stick to them.

I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills.

I know that eventually, I'll have to change my life and my career, but I've got a lot of good years left in me yet.

There are any number of reasons many talented people, particularly women, leave their careers for a period of time.

In a very real way Norman [Lear] godfathered me into my career. He was the best mentor anybody could have ever had.

Well Mandira, I hope not. You see, I started both their careers. And as far as i can remember, I started yours too.

I lost my job and started painting houses with a friend. The marriage had ended about the same time the career did.

As individuals, we professional women need to learn how to raise our hands and ask for more throughout our careers.

I wanted to retire from all that, but I guess my breasts still have a career, and I'm just tagging along with them.

I feel like everything great that's beginning to happen in my career started with the 'ink' Paste Magazine gave me!

Maybe that's what I've based my career on: getting up earlier than everyone else so I get an extra couple of hours.

In their political careers, Obama and Biden faced down lobbyists, Tea Party carpetbaggers, and Washington gridlock.

I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.

My whole family was very supportive of my choice in a career. I started playing music when I was about 6 years old.

Jadakiss is not no walk in no park. Nas is not no walk in no park. These are dudes that could have ended my career.

After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales.

The last thing I'd learn, well into my career, was how to get on, how to say hello, how to get in with the audience.

My entire high school career - my entire school career - I've been like three feet taller than everyone in my grade.

Any article's good. Long as it's publicity, I think that's all that matters. I think it's advancement for my career.

Fortunately during my career I have won more or less everything, so I need to enjoy it to have the right motivation.

I wouldn't count it out, but right now I feel like my career is still just starting. The best years are yet to come.

My family has been my biggest inspiration - they are true role models in my life and career and they always will be.

I am convinced that in my own career I could usually have hit 30 points higher if I had made a specialty of hitting.

I feel like Nina came into my life to help me grow, and since I met her, everything in our careers has been amazing.

I've spent the better part of my career in politics and public policy working on and fighting for education reforms.

I have had my share of heartbreaks...Though I'm single and my career has taken prescedence, I'm ready to mingle now.

Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.

You're not tapping into the widest possible pool of talent if you're shutting some people out of particular careers.

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