I've played for the Miami Heat my whole career under Pat Riley. Mr. GQ himself. So when I pick out my outfits before a game, I'm already feeling confident. And some of that swagger stays with me when I take the court.
There are those who build careers and companies just out of being popular on Instagram, but theres nothing behind them.
Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.
But on the other hand, I look back at my career sometimes and can't believe how fast everything has gone and how much I've been able to accomplish.
The Federalist Society has done more for the health of the law than any organization I have witnessed in my career.
I guess because the shows were activist in their own way - the marriage of my public activism and my career activism, you know - people understand me very well. They also understand there's a very strong bipartisan part in all of this.
I've tried most of my career to transform myself towards characters.
I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.
People have assumed that I have to run the ball before I can throw it most all of my career, all the way back before high school. It's a stereotype put on me for a long time because I'm African-American and I'm a dual-threat quarterback. I don't know why that stereotype is still around. It's about talent and the ability to throw the ball, not the color of your skin or your ability to also be a dangerous runner.
An actor's career relies on a lot of luck. Being in the right place at the right time.
A career is a job that has gone on too long.
I do worry a lot about the time it takes for people to get a PhD, about the difficulty of finding employment, about the difficulty of getting tenure, and generally about the perception that undergraduates have, that this is a very high-risk career to get started.
Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.
My whole career I played these girls sort of 18 to 23.
I had to walk away from America, and say goodbye to the biggest part of my career, because I knew otherwise my demons would get the better of me.
I've got a lot of other people who do a lot of things for me, so I've gotten to a part in my career where I'm doing a lot of talks because I want to get kids turned on. I want to see these kids, these geeky nerdy kids, go out there and do something.
I have a different approach. I don't file lawsuits because I really don't care.
I don't believe in careers. I believe in work. I'm not interested in some 'big picture that would be really good for me'.
I feel like it's important to use this gift God gave me, my life and my career to do something to make the world a better place. It's an easy thing for me to do.
When you're at the beginning of your career, there are a lot of, "I don't care about this," jobs that you take because it's about building your resume and building connections. There are so many factors that don't have anything to do with choosing for the material.
