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"There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up."
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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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"Hitting is business. With two strikes you really protect that plate."
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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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"One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head."
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"People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it."
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"All dope can do for you is kill you... the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you."
Love

"If I don't have friends, then I ain't got nothing."
Friendship

"There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up."
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"Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose."
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"They think they can make fuel from horse manure - now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning."
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"You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave."
Life

"I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know."
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"In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you."
Love
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