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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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"The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified."
Jeremy Renner
"The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified."
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"I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself."
Jim Carrey
"I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself."
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"Tax cuts continue to benefit families, seniors, and small business owners, as evidenced by unparalleled economic growth in Nevada and across the country."
Jon Porter
"Tax cuts continue to benefit families, seniors, and small business owners, as evidenced by unparalleled economic growth in Nevada and across the country."
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"Certainly dog driving is the most terrible work one has to face in this sort of business."
Robert Falcon Scott
"Certainly dog driving is the most terrible work one has to face in this sort of business."
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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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"A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well."
Jeff Bezos
"A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well."
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"Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand."
Lord Northcliffe
"Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand."
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"I like Biggie. Like 'Pac, he was one of the best rappers in the business. Why would I try to do something to him?"
Suge Knight
"I like Biggie. Like 'Pac, he was one of the best rappers in the business. Why would I try to do something to him?"
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"I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet!"
Robert Duvall
"I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet!"
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"Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets."
Henry Ford
"Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets."
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"The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money."
Rudolf Bing
"The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money."
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"I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years."
Gary Miller
"I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years."
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"Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business."
Malcolm Forbes
"Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business."
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"At first I missed it, but it was the amazing energy thing that happened during shows, when a lot of people were like Yay Yay Yeah! I missed that for a while. But I don't miss the regular and the business side of that whole thing."
Bill Kreutzmann
"At first I missed it, but it was the amazing energy thing that happened during shows, when a lot of people were like Yay Yay Yeah! I missed that for a while. But I don't miss the regular and the business side of that whole thing."
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"So, there's like one luxury you take and since we do that, y'know, you're involved with people in suits; business people all the time. But hey, if I sit down on a bar and they leave, good for me."
Kerry King
"So, there's like one luxury you take and since we do that, y'know, you're involved with people in suits; business people all the time. But hey, if I sit down on a bar and they leave, good for me."
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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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"There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end."
Norman Lear
"There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end."
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"I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble."
Anita Roddick
"I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble."
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"The Business Profits Tax, which is imposed on in-state businesses, we need to impose the same thing on out-of-state businesses, because the way the Business Profits Tax is calculated, it is highly dependent on how much sales and profits are generated in-state."
Craig Benson
"The Business Profits Tax, which is imposed on in-state businesses, we need to impose the same thing on out-of-state businesses, because the way the Business Profits Tax is calculated, it is highly dependent on how much sales and profits are generated in-state."
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"The deal is that you can do it, you don't really owe me anything, but at the end of it, I own the film. Then I can actually go out and reprint or not reprint if it I want."
Todd McFarlane
"The deal is that you can do it, you don't really owe me anything, but at the end of it, I own the film. Then I can actually go out and reprint or not reprint if it I want."
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"I don't have any love for this business or the game or for acting. This is my day job."
Terrence Howard
"I don't have any love for this business or the game or for acting. This is my day job."
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"Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable."
Aneurin Bevan
"Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable."
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"I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera."
Leonardo DiCaprio
"I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera."
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"Show business is just like high school, except you get paid."
Martin Mull
"Show business is just like high school, except you get paid."
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"Well, Bill, I don't think you're going to find many shy people that are in the political business."
Scott McCallum
"Well, Bill, I don't think you're going to find many shy people that are in the political business."
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"We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost."
Hubert H. Humphrey
"We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost."
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"Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone's job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop."
Allen Klein
"Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone's job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop."
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"Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion."
Ernie Harwell
"Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion."
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"Regulation is strangling businesses of all sizes in California, and we've got to streamline regulation so it's easy, not hard, to do business."
Meg Whitman
"Regulation is strangling businesses of all sizes in California, and we've got to streamline regulation so it's easy, not hard, to do business."
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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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"If I was coming into the business today, I wouldn't be in it. Knowing what I know, absolutely not."
Jason Patric
"If I was coming into the business today, I wouldn't be in it. Knowing what I know, absolutely not."
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"My business is the analytical framework."
Todd Gitlin
"My business is the analytical framework."
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"I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less."
Meg Whitman
"I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less."
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"I'm sure people in the business have said: She's too old for that part. I don't hear about it because your agent protects you from those negative things."
Felicity Kendal
"I'm sure people in the business have said: She's too old for that part. I don't hear about it because your agent protects you from those negative things."
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"Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what's around them."
Afrika Bambaataa
"Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what's around them."
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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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"If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch."
Thurgood Marshall
"If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch."
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"Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends."
Janice Dickinson
"Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends."
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"Only nine States have been represented since my arrival 'till within three days. There are now Eleven States barely represented. This tardiness in the States or their Delegates, besides retarding the most important Business makes it exceeding fatiguing to those that do attend."
William Whipple
"Only nine States have been represented since my arrival 'till within three days. There are now Eleven States barely represented. This tardiness in the States or their Delegates, besides retarding the most important Business makes it exceeding fatiguing to those that do attend."
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"If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable."
Will Rogers
"If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable."
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"As a former small business owner, I recognize both the important role small businesses play in our economy and the broad universe of challenges that small business owners face in trying to make ends meet."
Sue Kelly
"As a former small business owner, I recognize both the important role small businesses play in our economy and the broad universe of challenges that small business owners face in trying to make ends meet."
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"The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling."
Ambrose Bierce
"The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling."
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"It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself."
Karolina Kurkova
"It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself."
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"Do you have an entrepreneurial spirit in you? How helpful and creative are you in solving challenges? Have you attained communication and negotiation excellence status? Can you effectively market yourself and your service/product? How effective are you at selling your vision? The answers will determine how far your influence will go."
Archibald Marwizi
"Do you have an entrepreneurial spirit in you? How helpful and creative are you in solving challenges? Have you attained communication and negotiation excellence status? Can you effectively market yourself and your service/product? How effective are you at selling your vision? The answers will determine how far your influence will go."
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"Bridging innovation gaps is a strategic imperative for business execution."
Pearl Zhu
"Bridging innovation gaps is a strategic imperative for business execution."
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"I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash."
Billy Bragg
"I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash."
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"A man should never neglect his family for business."
Walt Disney
"A man should never neglect his family for business."
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