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When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right.
– Bob Mould
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I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.
– Eddie Murphy
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All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance.
– Bill Murray
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We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business.
– Edward R. Murrow
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You know, the fashion business is this legendary repository of young girls on their way to getting husbands. I really wanted to work.
– Ali MacGraw
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Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?
– Sydney Madwed
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Assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money or by teaching him a trade or by putting him in the way of business so that he may earn an honest livelihood and not be forced to the dreadful alternative of holding out his hand for charity. This is the highest step and summit of charity's golden ladder.
– Maimonides
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I fully expect to be able to complete one more campaign goal - and that is to proudly report that signs have been erected as you enter our great state that say 'Welcome to Wild, Wonderful West Virginia: Open for Business!'
– Joe Manchin III
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The neighbors could be as mad as they want, but I'm not running a business at the house. It's just a location. It will never get me out of here, because I don't have offices set up at my house, and that's what the township thinks.
– Bam Margera
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F50? - The F40 still does the business.
– Nick Mason
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It's against type in the sense of my background, but it's with type in the sense that I am a loner who's new to this business and sceptical about a lot of it.
– Ben McKenzie
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The whole scene is very strange. It's a very strange town and a very strange business, and it has a tendency to creep me out.
– Ben McKenzie
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If the spirit of business adventure is dulled, this country will cease to hold the foremost position in the world.
– Andrew Mellon
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There was absolutely no strain in marriage. Marc and I understand that this is a business. We have no problem separating our personal life with our personal life. And we have a very strong relationship.
– Rita Mero
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Girls are able to reach their potential now. Once they are out of the sport, they can still continue in the business world of sports. The whole role of the female is changing. Times do change, but we still have to work through adversity and learn to live with the decisions we make.
– Debbie Meyer
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Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.
– Clement Mok
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I don't know of any other industry, except the movie business, that has so many stars. Every lawyer thinks he's special.
– Peter Morrison
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Being in the microcomputer business is like going 55 miles an hour 3 feet from a cliff.
– George Morrow
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I can still play this game at a high level; I've proven that. I want to be home. I want to be close to my family. I want to be close to my foundation and my business interests.
– Alonzo Mourning
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Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.
– Martin Mull
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There was a time when the contractual relationship between the employer and the employee was supposed to be none of the public's business. That time has passed.
– Frank Murphy
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When I retire from tennis there are all kinds of things I want to do. I'd like to go to a business school or maybe take an artistic design course.
– Thomas Muster
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We are content to place a statue of Francis of Assisi in the middle of a birdbath and let the whole business of the saints go at that.
– C. Kilmer Myers
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Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.
– Horatio Nelson
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The business of the English commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.
– Horatio Nelson
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I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling.
– Nicholas II
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I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
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Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.
– Richard Milhous Nixon
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Four or five frigates will do the business without any military force.
– Lord North
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Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
– Lord Northcliffe
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That is the godawful thing about television today. Performers don't have any place to hit and miss. You're either in or you're out; you don't have a chance to become good at your craft. If you make three pictures in a row and they don't go over, you're out of the business.
– Donald O'Connor
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Bill Moyers on PBS, he hides behind the label of objectivity. He's about as objective as Mao Zedong, all right. I mean he's a Far-Left bomb-thrower who actually runs a foundation that funds left-wing organizations. I mean the guy's a joke. Get out of the news business, Bill.
– Bill O'Reilly
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Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.
– Olusegun Obasanjo
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Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
– David M. Ogilvy
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Everyone tries to talk you out of going to college. The consensus being that people are just gonna forget about you, you know, and that's the way the business works.
– Larisa Oleynik
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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
– Aristotle Onassis
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Job creation in the 21st century economy can't be business as usual. Competition is global, and it's fierce. We must aggressively support Colorado's economic pillars. Tourism and Agriculture are superb economic generators and we are all proud of these key industries.
– Bill Owens
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What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.
– Arnold Palmer
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It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.
– Theodore Parker
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The chief limiting factor for e-business is a skill shortage-not the ability to buy hardware and software-or lack of ideas or capital.
– John Patrick
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Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.
– William Penn
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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
– Samuel Pepys
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Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
– Samuel Pepys
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In the business world, lower profits reflect less demand for your product. But in government the opposite is true -- demand for our services increases in hard times.
– Sonny Perdue
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If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.
– Ross Perot
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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
– Tom Peters
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I've never been in this business for the recognition or the awards. I just want to do good work, grab a decent paycheck, and move onto the next job.
– William Petersen
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My father said you can't make a living in birds... my relatives all went into business: bankers, stockbrokers. However, they eventually lost it all and died in wheelchairs. Sometimes you have to be a little aberrant.
– Roger Tory Peterson
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Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
– Wendell Phillips
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
– Ezra Pound
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I always say the late 60s, early 70s in American education were really exciting times to teach. The late 70s, on the other hand, were awfully dull. People tended to be quiet and repressed and all headed off to business school or something.
– Reynolds Price
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It is ironic - or perhaps hypocritical is the right word - to be passing a Small Business Bill of Rights, when in fact, our Republican friends are gutting the very programs that support small businesses.
– David E. Price
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The fact that I have entered into IT-related business is proof that businesses have to evolve and keep with time. One has to re-invent continuously.
– Kerry Packer
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To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.
– John H. Patterson
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Simply surviving in this business is a feat.
– Lou Diamond Phillips
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Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is great for keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Great things come from out luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup of soup, and a good idea or two. No martinis.
– T. Boone Pickens
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I prefer to supervise the whole operations of Government myself rather than entrust the public business to subord.
– James Knox Polk
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The record industry is still pissed off that other people are making money off their business, even if it promotes their products and increases their sales. I think they're still mad about radio.
– Jonathan Potter
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It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.
– Hal Price
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When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.
– Herbert V. Prochnow
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The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.
– Bonnie Raitt
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Government help to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
– Ayn Rand
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I am constantly asked why I never made other films after 'There's No Business Like Show Business,' the answer is I was never asked.
– Johnnie Ray
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He or she must be successful in economic terms, but always within an ethical framework. Whether his or her constituency is a corporation and its shareholders or the customers in a small and privately held business, his or her first responsibility is to serve that constituency.
– Lee R. Raymond
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In order to gain the tools to fully address the broad impact of business on society, economic success is indispensable.
– Lee R. Raymond
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In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships.
– Lee R. Raymond
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It is important to remember that all business has an impact on the lives of real people.
– Lee R. Raymond
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The main professional responsibility of a person in business is business.
– Lee R. Raymond
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Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
– Ronald Reagan
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We are battling mighty competitors in this global race for business and jobs. Most of our strongest competitors are far away - as far away as Beijing, China. Other major contenders are right next door in New Jersey. Pennsylvania is in this fight for economic standing, and we are in it to win.
– Edward G. Rendell
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Exactly when people are in turmoil is the time that the entertainment business has always been at its best. Because people don't want to be reminded every day that they are under siege, or that they're not having a great time of life.
– Lionel Richie
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In the beginning I took a great interest in the giant-plane. But funnily enough the gigantic machine made it clear to me that only the smallest aeroplane would be of any use for me in battle. A big aerial barge is too clumsy for fighting. Agility is needed and, after all, fighting is my business.
– Manfred von Richthofen
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Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the cost of human life. Because that is what these drums beating over Iraq are really about. This is about business.
– Tim Robbins
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I'm in this business because I despise honest labor.
– Marty Robbins
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I just think that in the big scheme of the world, the way media deals with people in show business, is that the fiction it fodders is so salivated after and so the simple truth doesn't really seem to serve much of a purpose.
– Julia Roberts
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I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.
– Pat Roberts
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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
– John D. Rockefeller
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I took the GED, and left the option open to go to school. I did go to business school but left after four months because I just didn't want to be a puppet of society, stuck in an office, craving some sunlight.
– Michelle Rodriguez
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The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.
– Andy Rooney
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Consumers and artists dislike the major labels. It's a terrible business. Who wants to be at war with everybody?
– Don Rose
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I've always had a passion for classic cars, so I started a locating, brokering, import and export business. Just me, a laptop and a cell phone. I'm having a lot of fun doing that, as well as listening to music, making compilations, downloading music - even of CDs that I own - because it's faster than gathering them up and ripping; certainly easier than transferring vinyl.
– Don Rose
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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
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Leave the President's family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help.
– Donald H. Rumsfeld
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Believe me when I say that Bill Clinton's second term will be good for business. My business.
– Mark Russell
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Films are hard to make and I think the word indulge really leads one to believe that it's an easy sort of business and it's really extremely difficult.
– Ken Russell
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When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.
– George William Russell
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Thing is, it's very easy to be righteous from a distance. It's his life. It's not my business to say what is wrong or right.
– Daniel Radcliffe
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I have been successful, and I am grateful for my success. I have had some experiences that I wish I never had had, but that would be true in any business. I cannot say sincerely that I would have chosen just this road to fortune. Perhaps I might have wished for another way. But I took the opportunity that came to me. Certainly I am an opportunist. I admit it.
– Sally Rand
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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
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I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.
– Robert Reed
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Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that is often considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.
– Robert Rice
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My business is hurting people.
– Sugar Ray Robinson
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Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable.
– James Rouse
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I often thought I was in the wrong business. I was pretty seriously thinking of tossing it in before I shot Shine. I do not know why. I was pretty restless, I had been through a bad period of stress induced anxiety - panic attacks - and I was not sure of what I wanted to do.
– Geoffrey Rush
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There are many things we must do to improve our business climate. But in the quest for prosperity, what matters most is our people.
– Bob Taft
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Hitting is business. With two strikes you really protect that plate.
– Bill Terry
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No business in the world has ever made more money with poorer management.
– Bill Terry
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If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
– William Makepeace Thackeray
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We didn't have to do the minuets of diplomacy. We got down to business.
– Margaret Thatcher
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