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"I hate show business."
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"The ultimate profit of all businesses should be happiness."
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"16th century advertisements cannot market 21st century products. Look for what is necessary at the present moment."
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"If you have ever experienced this type of unprofessional treatment, I doubt you would even consider giving them business in the future. Interrupting, ignoring, patronizing, or antagonizing a customer is like pouring gas on a fire and creates a more explosive situation than the original complaint. Still, it continues to happen every day, costing companies millions in lost revenue."
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"But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses."
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"My grandfather had a paint store. It's what put my mom through college. Small business is part of my family history."
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"All those years we'd spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you'd play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business."
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"When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is not a bad thing. Letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary is not a bad thing."
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"It's really impossible to project ahead even six months in this business."
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"I fear this little episode does not speak very favourably for my business capacity in those early days, for I certainly ought to have made much more than I did by this really important invention."
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"Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail."
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"The more decadent a culture gets, the more they have a need for what they don't have at all, which is innocence, so you end up with kiddie porn and a perverse obsession with youth."
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"I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar."
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"Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell."
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"Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right."
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"Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very minimal."
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"When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing."
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"There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said."
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"With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again."
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"This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms."
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"At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar."
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