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"Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier."
Paula Nelson
"Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier."
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"Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry."
Arthur Levitt
"Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry."
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"I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him."
Jesse Helms
"I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him."
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"TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling."
Tina Brown
"TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling."
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"I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality."
Peter Fonda
"I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality."
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"More and more Americans are asking about the price that we have to pay when Wal-Mart comes into a community, treats workers poorly, violates immigration laws and squashes small businesses."
Anthony Weiner
"More and more Americans are asking about the price that we have to pay when Wal-Mart comes into a community, treats workers poorly, violates immigration laws and squashes small businesses."
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"I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!"
Henrik Ibsen
"I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!"
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"I know we didn't make an anti-Semitic film. This is what the Gospels are. And it's none of my business what other people think of me."
Jim Caviezel
"I know we didn't make an anti-Semitic film. This is what the Gospels are. And it's none of my business what other people think of me."
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"Acting is a tough business, and the percentage of people who make it is very low - it's about 1 percent."
Lee Majors
"Acting is a tough business, and the percentage of people who make it is very low - it's about 1 percent."
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"I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation."
Paul Ryan
"I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation."
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"They realize that spending millions to save billions is just good business."
Jack Abramoff
"They realize that spending millions to save billions is just good business."
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"We had some problems - my children were kidnapped during that time, and it just changed my whole way of thinking, from being in show business and everything else."
Solomon Burke
"We had some problems - my children were kidnapped during that time, and it just changed my whole way of thinking, from being in show business and everything else."
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"A lot of other things come along with Chapter 11, which basically end up in a lot of pain."
Rick Wagoner
"A lot of other things come along with Chapter 11, which basically end up in a lot of pain."
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"It's not government's business what people do in their private bedrooms."
Robert Reich
"It's not government's business what people do in their private bedrooms."
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"I know a lot of people in the business recommend the many Story Structure seminars being offered here, but I point to them as the single biggest contributor to lousy scripts."
Douglas Wood
"I know a lot of people in the business recommend the many Story Structure seminars being offered here, but I point to them as the single biggest contributor to lousy scripts."
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"Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others."
David Brainerd
"Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others."
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties."
Alfred North Whitehead
"It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties."
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"I think that some of our soldiers die in the battlefield and some come home to bad health and die prematurely, just by the nature of the kind of business they're in."
Christopher Shays
"I think that some of our soldiers die in the battlefield and some come home to bad health and die prematurely, just by the nature of the kind of business they're in."
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"Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along."
Marc Maron
"Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along."
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"To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved."
Paul McCartney
"To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved."
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"I know that my fans want to know who I'm sleeping with, but it's really none of their business."
Diana Ross
"I know that my fans want to know who I'm sleeping with, but it's really none of their business."
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"We really believe that Walt Disney is a very able company with great depth and a great set of franchises."
Robert Iger
"We really believe that Walt Disney is a very able company with great depth and a great set of franchises."
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"I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up."
Cameron Diaz
"I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up."
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"Thought, not money, is the real business capital."
Harvey S. Firestone
"Thought, not money, is the real business capital."
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"You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it."
Jessamyn West
"You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it."
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"I feel very strongly that you can't just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and get big business involved, because it won't happen otherwise."
Ted Danson
"I feel very strongly that you can't just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and get big business involved, because it won't happen otherwise."
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"My whole family actually, but my parents. I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business and I still have stuff to do at their house."
Kaley Cuoco
"My whole family actually, but my parents. I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business and I still have stuff to do at their house."
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"Under the AHP approach, the average small business might be able to offer their employees one or two insurance plans, and that employee of the small business would have no idea whether their doctor was going to be a apart of one of those plans."
Jim Cooper
"Under the AHP approach, the average small business might be able to offer their employees one or two insurance plans, and that employee of the small business would have no idea whether their doctor was going to be a apart of one of those plans."
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"If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong, either with you or with your business."
William J. H. Boetcker
"If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong, either with you or with your business."
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"I was employed as an investigator and my particular team, we were investigating the role of the business community in the genocide and we identified a bunch of leaders of the business community and I investigated two people."
Tony Greig
"I was employed as an investigator and my particular team, we were investigating the role of the business community in the genocide and we identified a bunch of leaders of the business community and I investigated two people."
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"This business is all about being seen, and the more people see you the better."
Debra Wilson
"This business is all about being seen, and the more people see you the better."
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"It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business."
Gertrude Stein
"It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business."
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"We mean by "politics" the people's business - the most important business there is."
Adlai E. Stevenson
"We mean by "politics" the people's business - the most important business there is."
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"I would suggest maintaining a life and a career outside the Industry. This is a fickle business and a lousy one to make a steady living in, so it's important to have a good family, friends, job and education to fall back on."
Fred Savage
"I would suggest maintaining a life and a career outside the Industry. This is a fickle business and a lousy one to make a steady living in, so it's important to have a good family, friends, job and education to fall back on."
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"The weird thing about this business - and I'm sure this operates in many other things, but it's very present and acute in this business - is that a lot of people don't realize that they have power. Particularly actors."
Lili Taylor
"The weird thing about this business - and I'm sure this operates in many other things, but it's very present and acute in this business - is that a lot of people don't realize that they have power. Particularly actors."
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"If you don't tour, you cannot expect to sell a huge numbers of your albums either. It was both a business - and an economical decision and we wanted to play anyway. We just wanted to get out for the tour when it was safe enough for us."
Kerry King
"If you don't tour, you cannot expect to sell a huge numbers of your albums either. It was both a business - and an economical decision and we wanted to play anyway. We just wanted to get out for the tour when it was safe enough for us."
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"Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me."
Ethel Waters
"Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me."
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"I think in just about any business the low cost competitor is always going to have an advantage."
Gerard Arpey
"I think in just about any business the low cost competitor is always going to have an advantage."
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"When you raise prices, you've got to make sure you get it to the bottom line. You can fritter it away because of the way you're running the business, with maybe not a totally disciplined approach."
Jim Cantalupo
"When you raise prices, you've got to make sure you get it to the bottom line. You can fritter it away because of the way you're running the business, with maybe not a totally disciplined approach."
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"Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father's business as a farmer; I was brought up in the kitchen and ended up becoming a chef."
Martin Yan
"Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father's business as a farmer; I was brought up in the kitchen and ended up becoming a chef."
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"Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah."
Marc Maron
"Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah."
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"You can't run a business or anything else on a theory."
Harold S. Geneen
"You can't run a business or anything else on a theory."
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"Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business."
William Wycherley
"Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business."
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"To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough."
Alec Baldwin
"To be in this business and have tremendous integrity and only make distinguished choices is very tough."
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"True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist."
Kent McCord
"True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist."
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"In terms of Cube I think he's very conscious of the technical aspect of the business whereas when you're just hired as an actor, you're not really secure in that part of your work and you're not really paying attention to where the camera."
Nia Long
"In terms of Cube I think he's very conscious of the technical aspect of the business whereas when you're just hired as an actor, you're not really secure in that part of your work and you're not really paying attention to where the camera."
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"I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the point of where I can support my family and don't have to depend on writing fiction for my income."
George Stephen
"I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the point of where I can support my family and don't have to depend on writing fiction for my income."
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"I definitely hope to attend UCLA in a year, and major in business."
Mila Kunis
"I definitely hope to attend UCLA in a year, and major in business."
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"I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business."
Richard M. Nixon
"I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business."
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"For every sleazeball in the business there are plenty of decent and wonderful people."
Kathie Lee Gifford
"For every sleazeball in the business there are plenty of decent and wonderful people."
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