Many on the professional Right owe their livelihoods to a large and growing network of nonprofit donor-funded groups and for-profit consulting and direct marketing companies hired by those groups. – Alex Pareene
I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea. – Anthony Holden
I live in Vermont, and we don’t have a tax incentive there, and therefore, we don’t have professional crew there. – Colin Trevorrow
Had I not become a professional golfer, I think I would have pursued some type of career in aviation. – Arnold Palmer
You can look at everything from pre-Heisman to post-Heisman, and I think that’s why it ranks up at the top, because before then, I didn’t even think I was good enough to be a professional ballplayer. – Barry Sanders
On ‘Workaholics,’ I feel like I’m just hanging out with my buddies being filmed, but on ‘Mindy,’ I’m around professional funny people who act. Guys like Chris Messina, who are the real deal. I watch what they do and put my own spin on it. – Anders Holm
For a professional writer in the Soviet Union, it works this way. First, you have to have something to say – that’s the main thing. Second, it’s a matter of who publishes you. If your book has real stuff in it, readers will ferret it out, even in a Siberian journal. – Anatoly Rybakov
The cutthroat part of it is that professional wrestling has no union. There are a number of people that are taken advantage of on a daily basis. – Bill Goldberg
No athlete ever ends his or her career the way you want to. We all want to play forever. But it doesn’t work that way. Accepting the end gracefully is part of being a professional athlete. – Alex Rodriguez
I’ve been a professional rugby player all my life; I don’t really know anything different. – Brian O’Driscoll
Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius. – Albert Pike
I knew I wanted to be a professional triathlete, but I didn’t know it was possible until I won the junior champs. My dad said I should give Cambridge a go to see if I could do both, but it was only ever a trial. – Alistair Brownlee
I never intended to become a professional pilot. But, as I became more curious about aircraft, and, well, not being John Travolta, I realized that the only way I was ever going to fly a jet is if I got a job. – Bruce Dickinson
I am a professional squash player, and I recently played badly – but as well as I could – in a professional squash tournament. A professional squash player might sound like someone who is in a food-tasting group, but it is a racquet sport. – Cass Sunstein
As soon as I started dancing at 14, I knew I was always going to be a professional dancer. – Anton du Beke
The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers. – Barry Ritholtz
Being professional is just really clearly the way to go and helps you on the road to longevity. – Amanda Seyfried
You can’t let players do what they wish and be professional. That’s a fact. As for the team, Boro had two internationals when I got there in 1995. Now they have more than 15. And they didn’t cost the fortune some suggest. – Bryan Robson
There is no facet of my professional life that doesn’t require or request improvisation. – Marc Evan Jackson
With the EU taking in ten more countries and adopting a new Constitution, organisations need more than ever intelligent professional help in engaging with the EU institutions. – Nick Clegg
I’ve always loved the showmanship of professional wrestling. While I love making movies, I love that platform, too. – Dwayne Johnson