Quotes About Career

When I went back to the White House to be the communication director under Obama, I was six-months pregnant.

The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!

It is tough for an actress to raise her voice on sexual harassment because the chances are they will question your character, they will ruin your career, and they will defeat you in the power game. So one has to be very strong to fight against these white-collar mafias.

Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar ghetto and into a more white-collar job. That does not necessarily mean they are being paid more than the blue-collar jobs men have.

Who am I to tell people what to do with their own careers and how they're doing?

When I'm filming I feel guilty about never seeing the children, but when I've not been working for six months I begin to think: 'Who am I?'

Resume? I wish I had a resume. And if I did, I wouldn't scrub anything from it. Who cares?

What I really care about is writing... Some people feel about touring the way I feel about writing, which is, 'Whoa, I can't believe I get to do this as a job.'

When the Mondays split up I looked at the others who'd rather sign on the dole than work with me and Bez, and thought: 'Whoa, you're gonna throw this opportunity away and maybe never work in music again?' There was no way we were doing that.

Whoever wants to pay me money to play the game of football, I'll play for 'em, it doesn't matter to me.

For those of us who spent our careers competing with David Broder, the hardest thing to abide was the inevitable comparison. If someone said Jack Germond - or Jules Witcover or Walter Mears or whoever - 'is a pretty good political reporter,' the default response would be, 'but he's no David Broder.'

I was a quarterback in college. I hoped to go to the NFL, and I didn't get drafted. I then became a free agent. I could sign with whoever I wanted to, and I ended up going to Pittsburgh.

In my own career, I have always tried to treat my colleagues with respect and kindness, whoever they are, and am proud to have developed and mentored the careers of many excellent young scientists who will be tackling tomorrow's biological problems long after I have left the scene.

I feel that whoever isn't feeling settled in their career won't think about their marriage.

Floyd Mayweather has fought the biggest names throughout his career and has earned the right to face whoever he chooses.

I'm aware that I have a career. But, if I was the hottest in the game, songs all over the radio - let's say whoever produced made me super big. Like, that would be cool, but there would be something in me that goes, 'You only wrote the raps. You didn't make the beats. You didn't direct. You didn't do all that.'

At the beginning of my career before anything started propelling, I used to blow up everybody. I was trying to work with whoever got next.

I'll play for whoever drafts me. I'm just not going to be presumptuous about what they want to do. It's the draft.

My whole career, the ups, the downs, the victories, the defeats, the lessons I've learned and kept rolling, that's what's made me the fighter I am today.

For me it's about supporting our Indigenous kids and completing that whole journey: early childhood, primary school, high school, university and then career. I want to be a part of that process all the way, wearing lots of different hats.

Music has been so healing in my life, so the fact that my music could be that for someone else is the best gift of my whole career. People have told me that they got married to my music, divorced to my music, and played my music while they were having their baby.

You've gotta be humble. That's what I've been throughout my whole career.

It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.

My whole career has been completely random and haphazard.