Professional Background Quotes

I usually describe myself as an engineer; that's basically what I've been doing since I was a kid.

I am a career physician. I practiced for 32 years before I began my career as a public servant.

Paul Otellini, the former CEO of Intel, I worked with while I was still with VMware. I knew Ram Shriram through the tech industry.

I'm very grateful for the career that I've had. And I'm very grateful for the experiences that 'Star Trek' has afforded me, along with my past background.

I think the biggest thing is kind of working everywhere and working with different people that, when I did walk through the door at WWE and looked around, I didn't really feel that out of place because every second face I looked at is somebody I've known for over a decade or worked with or I've been around in some capacity in the industry.

The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials - literally, which is why I'm teaching at MIT.

I really don't think there's such a thing as an ex-policeman.

I'm an engineer by training.

I have worked with different managers in the past and different systems.

I've never worked with an acting coach, no.

Remember, I'm a doctor's daughter. So obviously I'm interested in all medical things.

I have eight years of experience in Spain.

I've been involved in and out of the U.N. for many years - in fact my first internship was in 1971, so it goes back a couple of years!

I will never date an actor or a model. My family will never accept her. We are a middle class family, and an actress will never be able to gel with us.

The latter qualification brings to mind a fellow who applied for a job and stated he had twenty years of experience-which was corrected by a former employer to read "one year's experience-twenty times.

I have experience at every position... I think that's a plus for me.

I was a journalist and wrote about filmmakers, but I didn't review movies per se.

Well, for one thing, you know my dad was a cop.

I spent most of my career in hi tech, not in politics.

I think the rules are going to have to change for me to ever run for public office. My checkered past will always keep me out of politics.

Before MS moved in on me, I'd worked for seven years as a city lawyer, as the editor of a literary magazine, and before the age of 20, I'd also worked as a cadet journalist and as an assistant director in both film and TV. And then, after the lesions of MS, both on my spine and in my brain, I was the opposite of bionic.

I am a former economist. I never went to photography school to learn photography.

I thought that I knew the world pretty well. I mean this is what I do for a living, I've been in government or in the Navy Reserves for 13 years. I've got an undergraduate degree and a master's degree focused on that stuff so I would put myself on the what I thought was the more well educated end of the spectrum on these things.

I've got cabinet experience, military experience, and private sector experience.

In 1987, I had my first opportunity to provide 'advice and consent' on a Supreme Court nominee. At that time, I stated that the qualifications essential for evaluating a nominee for the bench included 'integrity, character, legal competence and ability, experience, and philosophy and judicial temperament.' On that test, Elena Kagan fails.