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"Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns."
Willem de Kooning
"Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns."
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"They're talking about a movie I don't want to hold to that because in this business you can talk about things for years before they get done - god knows if the financing would happen."
Caroline Dhavernas
"They're talking about a movie I don't want to hold to that because in this business you can talk about things for years before they get done - god knows if the financing would happen."
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"After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world."
Calvin Coolidge
"After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world."
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"One is that that's the way we started and we thought there would be more value and less confusion if the business model was just based on delivering news that's of value to Web sites."
Jay Chiat
"One is that that's the way we started and we thought there would be more value and less confusion if the business model was just based on delivering news that's of value to Web sites."
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"That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business."
Warren Zevon
"That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business."
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"I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling."
Nicholas II
"I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling."
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"It's a very good time for horror. This business certainly has changed, but there's still room for serious horror films. Look at 28 Days Later, that's not a tongue-in-cheek picture."
John Carpenter
"It's a very good time for horror. This business certainly has changed, but there's still room for serious horror films. Look at 28 Days Later, that's not a tongue-in-cheek picture."
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"In this business, my business, I get to meet all kinds of incredible people, fascinating people, glamorous people and sexy people and highly intellectual people. And you meet them and you go 'interesting, interesting, interesting'. They're interesting, but not very many people stop you in your tracks."
Madonna Ciccone
"In this business, my business, I get to meet all kinds of incredible people, fascinating people, glamorous people and sexy people and highly intellectual people. And you meet them and you go 'interesting, interesting, interesting'. They're interesting, but not very many people stop you in your tracks."
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"Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in court against those who put products on the market that are dangerous to their buyers."
Stanley Crouch
"Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in court against those who put products on the market that are dangerous to their buyers."
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"There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses."
David Cameron
"There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses."
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"When there's uncertainty they always think there's another shoe to fall. There is no other shoe to fall."
Kenneth Lay
"When there's uncertainty they always think there's another shoe to fall. There is no other shoe to fall."
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"I've now returned to the business again because I finally realised that I really enjoy the creative process."
Gil Gerard
"I've now returned to the business again because I finally realised that I really enjoy the creative process."
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"So you keep raising these taxes, and all of a sudden the business community says, 'Why are we here? We can go someplace else and use their phones.' That's one of the problems that directly affects the business community."
Richard M. Daley
"So you keep raising these taxes, and all of a sudden the business community says, 'Why are we here? We can go someplace else and use their phones.' That's one of the problems that directly affects the business community."
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"I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager."
Sylvester Stallone
"I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager."
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"There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business."
Ethel Waters
"There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business."
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"Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good."
Thomas Wolfe
"Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good."
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"In my column series "The Main Thing," I often talk about how Internet technology can improve the way people communicate - both within a business and between a business and its customers and partners."
Jim Barksdale
"In my column series "The Main Thing," I often talk about how Internet technology can improve the way people communicate - both within a business and between a business and its customers and partners."
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"I'm in this business because I despise honest labor."
Marty Robbins
"I'm in this business because I despise honest labor."
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"From the business point of view - not to overstate it - intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance."
Esther Dyson
"From the business point of view - not to overstate it - intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance."
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"Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment."
Peter Coyote
"Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment."
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"Music can be so disturbing and frustrating. I mean the business side of it. The actual making music part is fun, but the business side of it is just so out of control, has nothing to do with anything."
Dweezil Zappa
"Music can be so disturbing and frustrating. I mean the business side of it. The actual making music part is fun, but the business side of it is just so out of control, has nothing to do with anything."
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"I was spawned by some pretty good people in this business - Mr. Astaire, Mr. Tracy. They stopped and took their time to talk to people."
Robert Wagner
"I was spawned by some pretty good people in this business - Mr. Astaire, Mr. Tracy. They stopped and took their time to talk to people."
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"The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not."
George Michael
"The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not."
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"I think you've got to have your feet planted firmly on the ground, especially in this business, and you must not believe things that are said or written about you, because everything gets out of proportion one way or the other."
Judi Dench
"I think you've got to have your feet planted firmly on the ground, especially in this business, and you must not believe things that are said or written about you, because everything gets out of proportion one way or the other."
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"God will forgive me; that's his business."
Heinrich Heine
"God will forgive me; that's his business."
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"The industry does have some influence on who gets other awards. With the Mercury Prize, they don't. Jon comes from the business, but his heart is still very much in the music. Currently, we have about 12 major names that have said they want to be a part of MUDDA."
Peter Gabriel
"The industry does have some influence on who gets other awards. With the Mercury Prize, they don't. Jon comes from the business, but his heart is still very much in the music. Currently, we have about 12 major names that have said they want to be a part of MUDDA."
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"Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business."
Matt Drudge
"Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business."
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"Ultimately, you know, I'm a grown-up, I've been in this business a long time. I've got kids. I've got to do my stuff. But I also need to keep it there so I can bring it up again the next day at work or whatever."
Kyra Sedgwick
"Ultimately, you know, I'm a grown-up, I've been in this business a long time. I've got kids. I've got to do my stuff. But I also need to keep it there so I can bring it up again the next day at work or whatever."
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"Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer."
Anita Roddick
"Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer."
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"I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business."
Celine Dion
"I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business."
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"So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities."
Arthur Rock
"So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities."
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"Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon."
Adam Osborne
"Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon."
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"It's been said that government doesn't create jobs, business does. For the most part, this is true. But government creates the environment in which businesses can excel and expand."
Christine Gregoire
"It's been said that government doesn't create jobs, business does. For the most part, this is true. But government creates the environment in which businesses can excel and expand."
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"A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay."
Amos Bronson Alcott
"A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay."
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"The people that are running the bulk of the comic shops in North America aren't business people and they don't understand sales. They don't understand good product."
Rob Walton
"The people that are running the bulk of the comic shops in North America aren't business people and they don't understand sales. They don't understand good product."
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"So we have a commitment to the business and to its people."
John Kluge
"So we have a commitment to the business and to its people."
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"I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines."
Rose Schneiderman
"I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines."
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"A lot of people say I'd miss show business if I quit. I'd miss some of it. Now it's the only life I know."
Loretta Lynn
"A lot of people say I'd miss show business if I quit. I'd miss some of it. Now it's the only life I know."
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"My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it."
James Denton
"My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it."
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"Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'."
Paul Graham
"Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'."
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"No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed."
James Woods
"No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed."
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"Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has."
William S. Burroughs
"Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has."
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"Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs."
Henry Ford
"Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs."
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"Foxes was a movie that didn't do a lot of business but it didn't do too badly critically and eventually they offered me other things. The interesting thing was that next I tried a film called Star Man, which Michael Douglas was producing."
Adrian Lyne
"Foxes was a movie that didn't do a lot of business but it didn't do too badly critically and eventually they offered me other things. The interesting thing was that next I tried a film called Star Man, which Michael Douglas was producing."
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"Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business."
Chuck Jones
"Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business."
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"I have a fine level of recognition in the business and among the acting community now, so I consider myself one of the lucky ones. If I didn't think that, there would be something wrong with me. I'm grateful and thankful for what I've got."
Philip Seymour Hoffman
"I have a fine level of recognition in the business and among the acting community now, so I consider myself one of the lucky ones. If I didn't think that, there would be something wrong with me. I'm grateful and thankful for what I've got."
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"It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime."
Michael Eisner
"It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime."
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"Not only did I enjoy the creative side of Playboy and enjoy being surrounded by people who are curious about life, but I also love the analytical and hard business side of it."
Christie Hefner
"Not only did I enjoy the creative side of Playboy and enjoy being surrounded by people who are curious about life, but I also love the analytical and hard business side of it."
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"Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect."
Ryan Phillippe
"Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect."
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"I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed."
Lisa Kudrow
"I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed."
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