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"I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business circles, particularly, still don't do it."
Dick Van Dyke
"I was always in show business but in many ways was not really of show business. I didn't move in show business circles, particularly, still don't do it."
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"I see no business in life but the work of Christ."
Henry Martyn
"I see no business in life but the work of Christ."
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"On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it earlier."
Ken Olsen
"On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it earlier."
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"Banks properly established and conducted are highly useful to the business of the country, and will doubtless continue to exist in the States so long as they conform to their laws and are found to be safe and beneficial."
Martin Van Buren
"Banks properly established and conducted are highly useful to the business of the country, and will doubtless continue to exist in the States so long as they conform to their laws and are found to be safe and beneficial."
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"I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information."
Irvine Welsh
"I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information."
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"This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency and at an accelerated pace."
Margaret Chan
"This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency and at an accelerated pace."
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"To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart."
Thomas John Watson, Sr.
"To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart."
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"I only am in this business because I enjoy it. I think that is the only way to be in the business."
Jake Lloyd
"I only am in this business because I enjoy it. I think that is the only way to be in the business."
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"I've really gone into business since I got the 6 string, which was like starting all over."
Wes Montgomery
"I've really gone into business since I got the 6 string, which was like starting all over."
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"I think right now the jury is out on where and how much profit is available in the consumer electronics industry, because if you look at the current consumer electronics players, the biggest ones on the planet struggle to make profit consistently."
Kevin Rollins
"I think right now the jury is out on where and how much profit is available in the consumer electronics industry, because if you look at the current consumer electronics players, the biggest ones on the planet struggle to make profit consistently."
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"If the English want a king, it is their business. If the Russians want communism, it is their business. If the Americans want our form of government, it is our business."
Julius Rosenberg
"If the English want a king, it is their business. If the Russians want communism, it is their business. If the Americans want our form of government, it is our business."
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"Business must be the solution, not the problem."
Dennis Weaver
"Business must be the solution, not the problem."
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"Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living."
Ethel Merman
"Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living."
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"Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played."
Taylor Hanson
"Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played."
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"It might take some here and there, but Apple's market share in the global computer business has really shrunk pretty far, and where they've been making success recently is not in the computer business but in the iPod music business."
Kevin Rollins
"It might take some here and there, but Apple's market share in the global computer business has really shrunk pretty far, and where they've been making success recently is not in the computer business but in the iPod music business."
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"The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now."
Jimmy Rushing
"The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now."
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"This is a business built on promotion. We've been giving music away to radio stations for 30 years."
Hilary Rosen
"This is a business built on promotion. We've been giving music away to radio stations for 30 years."
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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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"I've been doing TV for fourteen years, and I've always had a fascination with the political business side. It's ruled my life. Ratings or no ratings have decided where I live, who I work with, and how long I'll be doing that particular job."
Charlotte Ross
"I've been doing TV for fourteen years, and I've always had a fascination with the political business side. It's ruled my life. Ratings or no ratings have decided where I live, who I work with, and how long I'll be doing that particular job."
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"It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away."
Jim Cooper
"It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away."
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"I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command."
Billy Sunday
"I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command."
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"The smaller fry disappears while the bigger one still rules in the business world and also in other areas like politics."
Girdhar Joshi
"The smaller fry disappears while the bigger one still rules in the business world and also in other areas like politics."
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"There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there."
Colonel Sanders
"There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there."
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"There is a lot of lip service paid in this Congress and downtown at the White House about family values and small business. Who better represents family values and small business than the fishermen and women on the Oregon and California coast."
Peter DeFazio
"There is a lot of lip service paid in this Congress and downtown at the White House about family values and small business. Who better represents family values and small business than the fishermen and women on the Oregon and California coast."
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"A dream business that doesn't make money is a living nightmare."
Habeeb Akande
"A dream business that doesn't make money is a living nightmare."
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"We must have more union members in this country to fight the political and business forces that are undermining workers in this country. The AFL-CIO has chosen the opposite approach by planning to throw even more money at politicians."
James P. Hoffa
"We must have more union members in this country to fight the political and business forces that are undermining workers in this country. The AFL-CIO has chosen the opposite approach by planning to throw even more money at politicians."
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"Actually, everything has been said in print... it's a battle of giants and it's something that Walt would say is none of your business - go right on and create the best you can."
Joe Grant
"Actually, everything has been said in print... it's a battle of giants and it's something that Walt would say is none of your business - go right on and create the best you can."
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"Road testing the effects of regulation on European business must become second nature to the European Union."
John Hutton
"Road testing the effects of regulation on European business must become second nature to the European Union."
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"That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life."
Victoria Jackson
"That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life."
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"Business can be a source of progressive change."
Jerry Greenfield
"Business can be a source of progressive change."
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"Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency."
Wayne White
"Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency."
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"I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn't think of it as being tough and things like that."
Billy Eckstine
"I was so enamored with the idea of being in show business so everything was bright to me. I mean, I didn't think of it as being tough and things like that."
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"So when we go into a large hardware bid, there is usually a services component that is part of that. So as we enter these deals, we tend to talk about the capabilities and what else needs to be done, and from there the bid might expand beyond hardware to the services."
Kevin Rollins
"So when we go into a large hardware bid, there is usually a services component that is part of that. So as we enter these deals, we tend to talk about the capabilities and what else needs to be done, and from there the bid might expand beyond hardware to the services."
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"They planned this fair to bring business to Chicago, into the Loop. But you could have fired a cannon down state street and hit nobody, because everybody was out at the fair."
Sally Rand
"They planned this fair to bring business to Chicago, into the Loop. But you could have fired a cannon down state street and hit nobody, because everybody was out at the fair."
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"If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously."
Dennis Quaid
"If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously."
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"If we deliver on those promises, we'll have done our job, and we did it with PSOne, and we certainly did it with PS2, and we are about to do it very rapidly with PSP. This is a whole new business for us, in terms of the handheld market, and we're going about it the right way."
Ian Jackson
"If we deliver on those promises, we'll have done our job, and we did it with PSOne, and we certainly did it with PS2, and we are about to do it very rapidly with PSP. This is a whole new business for us, in terms of the handheld market, and we're going about it the right way."
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"In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing right. Show business. I owe it everything - it owes me nothing."
Patsy Kelly
"In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing right. Show business. I owe it everything - it owes me nothing."
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"The record company really pissed me off when they told me to lose weight. I couldn't be bothered with looking a certain way. So I left the business. I don't regret it."
Kim Wilde
"The record company really pissed me off when they told me to lose weight. I couldn't be bothered with looking a certain way. So I left the business. I don't regret it."
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"It's tough to break into this business - now more so than ever."
LeAnn Rimes
"It's tough to break into this business - now more so than ever."
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"That space between the white lines, that's my office. That's where I conduct my business."
Early Wynn
"That space between the white lines, that's my office. That's where I conduct my business."
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"Being tiny has been difficult for me in a business that regarded physicality as the most important part of your life."
Estelle Getty
"Being tiny has been difficult for me in a business that regarded physicality as the most important part of your life."
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"If we take care of the business and keep our eye on the goal line, the stock price will take care of itself."
James Sinegal
"If we take care of the business and keep our eye on the goal line, the stock price will take care of itself."
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"You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it."
Sammy Davis, Jr.
"You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it."
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"There's no reason for Gillette to be world class on the web, but there's every reason for Gillette to be world class in producing billions of high powered razor blades at low cost."
James Collins
"There's no reason for Gillette to be world class on the web, but there's every reason for Gillette to be world class in producing billions of high powered razor blades at low cost."
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"If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more risky, or less risky, but, in the business of exploration, risk is part of the territory."
John L. Phillips
"If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more risky, or less risky, but, in the business of exploration, risk is part of the territory."
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"If we take care of the customers and associates and grow the business, Wall Street will be pleased."
Lee Scott
"If we take care of the customers and associates and grow the business, Wall Street will be pleased."
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"I always like to refer managers in corporate America as the renters of the corporate assets, not the owners."
Henry Kravis
"I always like to refer managers in corporate America as the renters of the corporate assets, not the owners."
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"CNN canceled all the shows I was on. They're going in a different direction, but that's their privilege. They own the business."
Robert Novak
"CNN canceled all the shows I was on. They're going in a different direction, but that's their privilege. They own the business."
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"Well, you can't trust most people in this game, period; it can be a very shady business."
Marvin Hagler
"Well, you can't trust most people in this game, period; it can be a very shady business."
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"We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added."
Ronald Reagan
"We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added."
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