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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

Quote by Taylor Caldwell about survival, personality, death, human imperfections

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Quote by Albert Camus about education, books, day, knowledge

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.

Quote by Bette Davis about enemies, regret, affair, actors

So much of a professional athlete's success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with... always saying how you deal with good, is just as important as how you deal with bad.

Quote by Brett Favre about success, bad luck, bad, good, good luck, contentment

I know many men who are misanthropes, and profess to look down with disdain on their species. My creed is of an opposite character. All that we observe that is best and most excellent in the intellectual world, is man.

Quote by William Godwin about man, character, world

I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.

Quote by Gerald R. Ford about football, name, word, day

I love what I do for a living, it's the greatest job in the world, but you have to survive an awful lot of attention that you don't truly deserve and you have to live up to your professional responsibilities and I'm always trying to balance that...

Quote by Tom Hanks about attention, contentment, world, love

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about time, contentment

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about perfection

It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about affair, contentment

We are very isolated, far from boyfriends and friends, so we have to be strong, smart and very professional.

Quote by Eva Herzigova about intelligence

My children have become popular, and they show a tremendous love for the public. They're professionals.

Quote by Julio Iglesias about children, public, love

In the eyes of your professor, you are ALWAYS wrong, so don't bother trying.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about education, eyes, bad, contentment

All CB shooters are proven, professional gamblers.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about cowboys

The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.

Quote by Flann O'Brien about politics, common sense, sense

In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as professor with the added responsibility of becoming also Department Chairman.

Quote by George Andrew Olah about life

A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.

Quote by Camille Paglia about country, culture, knowledge, americans, public, life

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

Quote by Thomas Paine about happiness, infidelity, faith, man

There are many times I do a straightforward, professional interview.

Quote by Michael Parkinson about time

People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work, they do need to get another profession.

EQuote by Estelle Parsons about world, actors, need, work, people