I carry out my full duties as Deputy First Minister and accept I have tinnitus but appreciate the hearing that I do have and that it does not limit me in a professional or personal capacity. – Martin McGuinness
Even now it is no longer composed of the traditional political class, but of a composite layer of corporate leaders, high-level administrators, and the heads of the major professional, labor, political, and religious organisations. – Jean-Francois Lyotard
I always seem to get parts where I play the sports professional – and that’s not me at all! – Jay Ryan
There are more than enough people with serious mental issues who really do need professional help without all the other Toms, Dicks and Harriets rushing to the therapist’s couch. – Mariella Frostrup
You see a hockey player, you’d never know he’s a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast. – Junior Seau
I am not someone who deserves to be dissected and analyzed like some tragic example of everything that can possibly go wrong for a professional athlete. – Josh Gordon
I can no more separate my serious concerns about the world from my cockeyed way of seeing it than I can keep apart my personal and professional selves. – James Howe
Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer. – Len Deighton
I dropped out of school at 17 and joined the Irish band The Frames, getting my first glimpse into the world of professional film making while shooting of a number of rock videos. – John Carney
‘Ice Age 4’ came totally out of nowhere for me. I was told Fox Animation was interested in hiring me as a story supervisor or something or other that sounded way too professional for me. – Jason Fuchs
Professional managers, coaches, and players have a right to question an umpire’s decision if they do it in a professional manner. When they become personal, profane, or violent, they have crossed the line and must be dealt with accordingly. – Jim Evans
My first professional gig was ‘Once Upon a Mattress’ at the Drury Lane Oakbrook… I was in the ensemble. I was one of the ladies in waiting, and I covered Winnifred. – Jessie Mueller
I loved to read, and if I could’ve been a professional reader, that’s probably what I would’ve wanted to be! – Kathryn Lasky
Jack made it very comfortable for me on the set. We’d met socially before but never worked together. You know, he’s very professional, very disciplined and he’s always prepared and knows his lines. – Kathy Bates
When I left Michigan and I came to New York, that was my goal, to be a professional dancer. And I sort of fell into singing by accident in a way. – Madonna Ciccone
I’ve been booed in Holland and in Uruguay – as a professional footballer, you need to have thick skin and just get used to it. – Luis Suarez
I definitely would say, by sixth grade, I was a professional shoplifter – and not because I wanted to. I’m not going out to shoplift earrings or clothes or shoes like the average teenager. I was shoplifting frozen dinners at a grocery store. – Lolo Jones
In professional wrestling, I think that they want you to be bigger than life. It’s almost like an over-acting type thing – whereas on the big screen, you’re 35 feet and they’ve got a close-up of you to put it on the screen in the movie house. At 35 feet, it’s more subtlety than the overboard drama that we do in pro wrestling. – Kevin Nash
The thing with professional boxing is you have to have the right promoter and the right fights. It is a cut-throat business. – Katie Taylor
I was 5 years old when I did my first catwalk and did commercials at 16. I went professional after my studies. – Melania Trump
Casting young people is always so difficult, and they got it so right in ‘Game of Thrones.’ All the young actors are amazingly talented and so professional. – Joe Dempsie
When I was cast for ‘Walking Dead,’ I was still doing ‘Lone Ranger,’ so I have my ‘Lone Ranger’ look with the handlebar mustache. I think everybody appreciates the professional mustache. – Lew Temple
I started in musicals. My first professional experience was Dorothy in ‘The Wizard of Oz’ in Palm Springs. – Lindsay Hartley
I was born in Newton, MA. Graduated from Brown University in 2001 with honors in English as a playwright. I attended the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Center in Waterford, CT just after Brown. I moved to NYC in 2002 and was a professional… waiter, for 3 years. – John Krasinski
I was a judo athlete, while taking modeling as my side job, before I eventually quit my professional sports career over a knee injury. – Joe Taslim