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"The newspaper is dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers and its one business I'd never be in."
Sumner Redstone
"The newspaper is dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers and its one business I'd never be in."
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"I started in this business on soap operas."
Lauren Holly
"I started in this business on soap operas."
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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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"Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops."
Thomas J. Watson
"Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops."
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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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"Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds?"
John Philip Sousa
"Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds?"
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"I have known from the beginning one thing you need to know. That is, the music business is a business."
Steve Brown
"I have known from the beginning one thing you need to know. That is, the music business is a business."
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"The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit."
George Grosz
"The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit."
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"I haven't done a great deal of it but this was a chance to do more and bring it to that part of the business and even more so, but the fact that it was a black superhero was really the catalyst to me."
Blair Underwood
"I haven't done a great deal of it but this was a chance to do more and bring it to that part of the business and even more so, but the fact that it was a black superhero was really the catalyst to me."
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"There's show and there's business. Business is a whole other beat."
Omar Epps
"There's show and there's business. Business is a whole other beat."
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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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"It's a clique and I think a clique exists in every business. There's a circle of people that are guaranteed to open a movie and we all know their names and whether they're right or wrong for the role."
Elizabeth Pena
"It's a clique and I think a clique exists in every business. There's a circle of people that are guaranteed to open a movie and we all know their names and whether they're right or wrong for the role."
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"My undergraduate degree is in business, so I'm trying to get a bit of a background before I go in."
Shannon Miller
"My undergraduate degree is in business, so I'm trying to get a bit of a background before I go in."
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"Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition."
T-Bone Burnett
"Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition."
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"The business is so upside down now. It's not just about the bling-bling."
Tim Reid
"The business is so upside down now. It's not just about the bling-bling."
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"I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people."
Derek Jacobi
"I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people."
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"What I would have liked to do on that show was play a secretary of state who has huge personal business interests throughout the world. That, to me, seems to be more in synch with reality."
William Devane
"What I would have liked to do on that show was play a secretary of state who has huge personal business interests throughout the world. That, to me, seems to be more in synch with reality."
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"It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large."
Chris Patten
"It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large."
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"Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass."
William Congreve
"Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass."
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"Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years' business career, from which I had retired."
William Banting
"Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years' business career, from which I had retired."
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"Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends."
Sophie Tucker
"Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends."
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"Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan."
Uma Thurman
"Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan."
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"That's the ultimate gratification in any business situation - do customers buy the product? And do they use it and do they come back and buy more of it?"
Jim Barksdale
"That's the ultimate gratification in any business situation - do customers buy the product? And do they use it and do they come back and buy more of it?"
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"Business people have been made into these rock stars because they've made a lot of money."
James Daly
"Business people have been made into these rock stars because they've made a lot of money."
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"I do like to work with young directors because it's such a difficult business that I think after directors have been around a while sometimes, not always, but sometimes their passion gets siphoned off because they get hurt."
Ellen Burstyn
"I do like to work with young directors because it's such a difficult business that I think after directors have been around a while sometimes, not always, but sometimes their passion gets siphoned off because they get hurt."
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"I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business."
Bette Davis
"I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business."
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"China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers."
Howard Schultz
"China traditionally has been a tea-drinking country but we turned them into coffee drinkers."
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"The best part? Probably being able to portray such a respectable, ethical, intelligent, strong woman. That's still pretty rare in our business, unfortunately."
Catherine Bell
"The best part? Probably being able to portray such a respectable, ethical, intelligent, strong woman. That's still pretty rare in our business, unfortunately."
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"Singing is an arduous business and it needs sacrifices."
Lesley Garrett
"Singing is an arduous business and it needs sacrifices."
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"Unfortunately, since the Sept. 11 tragedy, our business is not doing too well."
Hunter Tylo
"Unfortunately, since the Sept. 11 tragedy, our business is not doing too well."
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"My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business."
Norman Granz
"My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business."
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"Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do."
John Oates
"Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do."
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"I recorded with Sinatra, but the recording business is a very strange strata right now."
Skitch Henderson
"I recorded with Sinatra, but the recording business is a very strange strata right now."
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"Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors."
Ben Stiller
"Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors."
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"Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls."
Carly Simon
"Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls."
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"I don't think an actor's job is to be recognized. I think an actor's job is to facilitate the writing in a way that changes the way people think. No other business does that."
Jeffrey Donovan
"I don't think an actor's job is to be recognized. I think an actor's job is to facilitate the writing in a way that changes the way people think. No other business does that."
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"I hate show business."
Joni Mitchell
"I hate show business."
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"We have to make America the best place in the world to do business."
Dick Cheney
"We have to make America the best place in the world to do business."
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"I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all."
Catherine the Great
"I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all."
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"Mma Ramotswe tucked the cheque safely away in her bodice. Modern business methods were all very well, she thought, but when it came to the safeguarding of money there were some places which had yet to be bettered."
Alexander McCall Smith
"Mma Ramotswe tucked the cheque safely away in her bodice. Modern business methods were all very well, she thought, but when it came to the safeguarding of money there were some places which had yet to be bettered."
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"A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services."
Edward Sapir
"A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services."
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"The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their faults and their - shortcomings, but they were not slothful in business and they were most fervent in spirit."
Henry Cabot Lodge
"The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their faults and their - shortcomings, but they were not slothful in business and they were most fervent in spirit."
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"I got into law school to supplement my business background. I'm not planning to practice law."
Shannon Miller
"I got into law school to supplement my business background. I'm not planning to practice law."
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"In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're obsolete."
Cher
"In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're obsolete."
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"Branding is a lot of things, but one thing it's not is soft.When you brand, rebrand or brand-diggity, ask yourself one thing to do it right: how will my brand create buyers?If you're in business, that's the goal. Buyers. Branding done well creates both long term loyalty and timely purchases."
Richie Norton
"Branding is a lot of things, but one thing it's not is soft.When you brand, rebrand or brand-diggity, ask yourself one thing to do it right: how will my brand create buyers?If you're in business, that's the goal. Buyers. Branding done well creates both long term loyalty and timely purchases."
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"And so I've always been fascinated by the technical end of theater, and a lot of my closest friends are not actors, but in the other end of the business."
Rene Auberjonois
"And so I've always been fascinated by the technical end of theater, and a lot of my closest friends are not actors, but in the other end of the business."
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"Brought to you by The Corporation: In your homes and in your pants."
Libba Bray
"Brought to you by The Corporation: In your homes and in your pants."
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"Business is other people's money."
Delphine de Girardin
"Business is other people's money."
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"I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing."
Izaak Walton
"I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing."
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"The Internet is the Viagra of big business."
Jack Welch
"The Internet is the Viagra of big business."
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