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Quotes About Qualification

In my opinion, Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't qualified to be governor of California.
~ James Garner
What was I qualified to do to make a living? Nothing. You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.
~ James Garner
The thing is when you're... well-enough known, you get asked to speak places, and they don't really think about whether or not you're qualified. They just want somebody that will be a drawing card for the audience. So it's up to you to decide whether or not it's foolish to get up and speak to these people.
~ Alan Alda
Rajeev Gandhi was prime minister. We've had a long family relationship with them. He asked me to fight an election, and I went ahead and did it. But I was not qualified as a politician, and I am not going back there again.
~ Amitabh Bachchan
I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.
~ Carl Lewis
I am a qualified civil engineer but academics never attracted me as I was a sleepoholic when I was in college.
~ Badshah
Don't be afraid to make things up. Never fear being exposed as a fraud. Experts make things up all the time. They're qualified to.
~ Stephen Colbert
If bringing up the next generation is important, why aren't they the best qualified, the best paid? Why aren't we as concerned about their career progression as we are about those who work in the education or health services?
~ Estelle Morris
In that match for Holland I asked for a big responsibility, I got it and I dealt with it. I played well, I scored goals and the team qualified for the Euro 2004 finals. It was a big night and an important moment for Holland.
~ Ruud van Nistelrooy
I don't know what I'm qualified to do, film-wise... So it's really down to a director or a casting director to find something that they think I could do.
~ Larry Mullen, Jr.
Even if I disagree with Obama on many, many things, he is certainly qualified to be president. He is certainly competent to be president.
~ Penn Jillette
Peter Rodrick was one of only around 4,000 men in the world qualified to land jets on a carrier after dark.
~ Stephen Rodrick
I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything.
~ Victoria Jackson
I think it's a mistake for the American public to constantly be told that if you work for an oil company or you work for a bank, that automatically makes you bad. I think a lot of these people are very qualified people who are patriots. They're going to want to help the country.
~ Jamie Dimon
The way in which people talk about climate is just so wonky and so abstract and such a boys' club that it makes a lot of women just roll their eyes or feel that they are somehow not qualified. I certainly had to fight that feeling in myself in order to write about it.
~ Naomi Klein
I've been very, very careful to tell people what I am qualified to talk about and what I'm not qualified to talk about.
~ Ta-Nehisi Coates
Nobody but an idiot would pretend that they had an error-proof way of choosing the 'best' out of hundreds of perfectly qualified applicants - not for university or for anything.
~ Mary Beard
Modeling wasn't necessarily what I was into. It's something that you're genetically qualified to do.
~ Trish Goff
As far as the adjectives that I lead with, I think a writer and a comedienne are first. I have never qualified my experience or gender or my race, although I know that's a huge component on how that is used. But I think in order for me to do my job effectively, I have to really be the best at what it is I'm doing.
~ Natasha Rothwell
We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.
~ Vanessa Diffenbaugh
I endorsed Governor John Kasich for President because I felt like he was the most qualified and the best person to lead our nation.
~ Robert J. Bentley
I'm not qualified for anything. I've had lots of little jobs, like picking grapes and being a tax man. I can't imagine not writing, because I've done it since I was five or six. Maybe I'd work in academia. That's always what the plan was.
~ Ian Rankin
If somebody were more passionate about Redfin, how would she not be more qualified to have my job than I am? Like, that's the thing I have to be the best at.
~ Glenn Kelman
I think a person of colour in any situation should be qualified to do the job. Not just because of the colour of their skin.
~ Motsi Mabuse