#profess

I went to professional men's soccer games, the old North American soccer league at that time, and I used to be a ticket holder with my family and family friends. We would go every weekend and I thought it was great, but I just thought of it as recreation, as family fun. ↗

— Brandi Chastain

#every #family #friends #fun #games

There was no doubt that sooner or later we will fight. But we will fight not in the way of the dissidents' protests. We understood that we needed to be as professional as possible. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#doubt #fight #later #needed #no doubt

My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive. ↗

— David Fincher

#lot #obsessive #people #probably #professionalism

I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am? ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#bio #cooler #found #i #i am

But September 11 marked a big change in the sense that the public was suddenly interested, and as a professor at a public university I felt a responsibility to respond to all of the inquiries about the Islamic world. ↗

— Juan Cole

#big #big change #change #felt #i

But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting. ↗

— Dabney Coleman

#hard #profession #teaching

You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is different. That's one of the reasons George Lucas never directed again. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#again #different #directed #everybody #george

I didn't really think about becoming a professional artist until high school, when I realized that everything else required too much math. ↗

— Phil Foglio

#artist #becoming #else #everything #high

I just remembered songs my grandmother taught me, and songs that I learned for the recordings. But, then I learned to speak Italian. When I was there, I hired a professor who stayed with me 24 hours a day. She wouldn't let me speak a word of English. ↗

— Connie Francis

#english #grandmother #hired #hours #i

A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout. ↗

— Willard Gaylin

#beings #fishermen #human #human beings #humanity