Careers Quotes

I think I’m the funniest guy in a room full of unfunny people. Unfortunately, my career is increasingly leading me into rooms where everybody is funny. I’m the least funny person in a room full of funny people.

I’ve never really had a TV career. I’ve been a soldier and a climber.

In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career – my anti-job – that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.

I’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.

Looking back at his career, Mr. Rustin, a Quaker, once wrote: ‘The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.’

I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive.

I’ve met quite a number of people in my career, but I do have an extraordinary memory. And even though they may drift into the periphery of my memory, I can bring them right back when I need them.

Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics.

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

Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives.