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The recent Dictionary of Occupational Titles lists over twenty thousand specialized professions in America; being a millionaire is not one of them. -- Jerzy Kosinski
Public Utility Commission (PUC), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) complaints are rarely upheld. It is estimated that less than 5% of complaints are successful and that the actual number may be below 1% in some cases. -- Steven Magee
Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife. -- Queen Victoria
Writing in certain environments carries with it an occupational risk. -- Wole Soyinka
When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard. -- David Morrissey
A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict. -- Robert Shea
A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk. -- Oswald Mosley
A tendency to make metaphorical connections is an occupational hazard for those of us who write. -- Alice McDermott
Most practising scientists focus on 'bite-sized' problems that are timely and tractable. The occupational risk is then to lose sight of the big picture. -- Martin Rees
I've come off horses and fought in medieval battles using axes, hammers and swords as well as fists. Getting your teeth knocked out is an occupational hazard. -- James Cosmo
To conflict journalists, a tiny, tight-knit tribe, tragedy is practically an occupational requirement: our work requires us to seek it out, measure it, contextualize it, and chronicle it. -- Bobby Ghosh
Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with that. It's an occupational hazard. -- Dan Quisenberry
I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions. -- Alan Dundes
Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in the writing of his last and greatest novel, 'A Passage to India,' E. M. Forster got stuck for nine years. -- Damon Galgut
I have been heartbroken once and it has affected all my relationships from there on. But now I look at it as a occupational hazard. If you are in the meat market at some point you are gonna get mad cows disease. -- Dominic Monaghan
I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic's best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what he's doing is easy is an occupational hazard. -- Richard Russo
But this is an occupational hazard of being a scientist. You say this is the best information I have and then you realize that not everyone is going to read the footnotes or the whole book, so people are going to get the wrong impression. -- Bjorn Lomborg
I don't think I could, with a straight face, describe myself as a completely positive person, but I'm not overly negative, either. On the whole, most writers think plots through to their consequences, and it's not always a sunny place. I have an occupational temperament for anxiety. -- James Lasdun
I worked in television; I'm the Failed Pilot Queen, I've done so many television shows, pilots, theater ... when you do it for so long, I'm telling you, you get to the point where it becomes varied because you take what's available for a number of reasons. It's just an occupational hazard. -- Viola Davis
Eating a lot is an occupational hazard but it's a pretty great problem to have. I spend a lot of time eating sweets on TV - cake, cupcakes, donuts, and pudding. It's a dream job, but at the same time there will be days where I wake up knowing I will eat 15 desserts! -- Gail Simmons
Feeling inadequate is an occupational hazard of motherhood. -- Harriet Lerner
The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride. -- John Stott
The prime occupational hazard of a manager is superficiality. -- Henry Mintzberg
The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease. -- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement. -- John Stott
My occupational hazard is my occupation's just not around... -- Jimmy Buffett
In the theater lying is looked upon as an occupational disease. -- Tallulah Bankhead
Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment. -- Kent Beck
My occupational hazard is that I can't help plagiarizing from real life. -- Mary McCarthy
A writer's occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Taking pleasure in the dark side may be some sort of occupational hazard for reporters. -- Calvin Trillin
The occupational hazard of being a Playboy Bunny is the aching facial muscles brought on by obligatory smiles. -- Germaine Greer
Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young. -- Henry Seidel Canby
Being pregnant is a very boring six months. I am not particularly maternal. It's an occupational hazard of being a wife. -- Anne, Princess Royal
It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth. -- Ally Carter
The occupational hazard of making a spectacle of yourself, over the long haul, is that at some point you buy a ticket too. -- Thomas McGuane
It is an occupational risk of biologists to claim, towards the end of their careers, that the problems which they have not solved are insoluble. -- John Maynard Smith
Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English literature; it is an occupational hazard. -- Carolyn Heilbrun
It is an occupational hazard of devout folk to become stuffy bores. This should not be. Of all people, we should be the most free, alive, interesting. -- Richard J. Foster
Embrace relational uncertainty. It's called romance. Embrace spiritual uncertainty. It's called mystery. Embrace occupational uncertainty. It's called destiny. Embrace emotional uncertainty. It's called joy. Embrace intellectual uncertainty. It's called revelation. -- Mark Batterson
One of the occupational hazards of being an actor, the reason why so many actors are insecure, is that the only way we know we're good is when other people tell us. -- David Oyelowo
You can handle the wheelchair," said the occupational therapist, with a smile intended to make the remark sound like good news, whereas to my ears it had the ring of a life sentence. -- Jean-Dominique Bauby
My teacher, Hopkins, often commented on the craving for certainty that led so many physicists into mysticism or into the Church and similar organisations ... Faith seems to be an occupational hazard for physicists. -- Norman Pirie

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