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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
– Gore Vidal
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Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.
– Joan Didion
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Why do only boys get to chase? Nuh-uh! If anything, I think this whole sitting back and waiting thing can be self-sabotaging. We have to send up flares. We have to let guys know we're open for business.
– Ginnifer Goodwin
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Whether you were talking about Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather's, the National Restaurant Association, in each one of those situations, I had a daunting problem that I had to solve. And I used the same business principles to approach the problem and, more importantly, solve the problem in every one of the situations.
– Herman Cain
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Where are the jobs going to come from?Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now.
– William J. Clinton
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When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.
– Steve Jobs
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When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.
– Ice T
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When you raise taxes on small business, from 35% to 40%, you will kill jobs.
– Mitt Romney
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When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.
– Robert Kiyosaki
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When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.
– Billie Jean King
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When in doubt, mumble when in trouble, delegate when in charge, ponder.
– James H. Boren
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When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.
– Daniel Day Lewis
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When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.
– Ice Cube
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When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I just thought of the risk of not going into show business and always wondering if I would've had a chance. Because that's where my real heart was.
– Steve Martin
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When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.
– Maya Lin
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When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.
– Calvin Klein
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When I started my last business, I didn't receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can't handle that pressure.
– Robert Kiyosaki
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When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me.
– Marc Andreessen
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When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business I have to humiliate myself.
– Jerry Seinfeld
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When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That's when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.
– Vera Wang
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When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.
– William Wordsworth
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When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?
– Glenn Beck
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What today's business reality makes clear is that brands cannot survive in a society that is failing economically, socially, ethically, and morally.
– Simon Mainwaring
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What other people think of me is none of my business.
– Gary Oldman
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What makes the most money for this business? Dead rock stars.
– Courtney Love
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What if I couldn't handle people's opinions of me? I know that shouldn't dictate a person's degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment.
– Chris Evans
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What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.
– Mario Andretti
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Well, you can't trust most people in this game, period it can be a very shady business.
– Marvin Hagler
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Well, there's different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I'm working in this business but I'm not Hollywood.
– Shia LaBeouf
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Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.
– Christopher Walken
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Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.
– Richard Branson
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Well there's nobody who has a more supportive husband than I do, and he has a business that he runs, and it's his own business, so he has work to do, my kids have school to do, I mean, people have - there are other things in life besides politics.
– Caroline Kennedy
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We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.
– David Frum
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We've got to lift our game tremendously. We'll sell our business news and information in print, we'll sell it to anyone who's got a cable system, and we'll sell it on the Web.
– Rupert Murdoch
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We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us.
– Jerry Garcia
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We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
– Ice Cube
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We need to stop apologizing for celebrating life. We need to stop apologizing for wanting to protect an individual's right to build a business.
– Rick Perry
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We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.
– Lucy Maud Montgomery
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We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
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We have mountain of debt that isn't going away and all the problems are here to stay, and anybody who tells you that is a good thing ought to get out of the business of helping the government down the road.
– Rick Santelli
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We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.
– Jeff Bezos
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We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
– Samuel Adams
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We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
– John Cage
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We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.
– Jon Bon Jovi
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Washington has to become an ally of business, not the opposition of business.
– Mitt Romney
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Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.
– Carroll O'Connor
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Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.
– Henry Louis Gates
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Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.
– James Buchan
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Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.
– Jeff Bridges
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Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.
– Marilyn vos Savant
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Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.
– Eminem
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Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
– W. Clement Stone
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Treaties, agreements and organizations to help settle disputes may be necessary, but they often favor the interests of business over citizens.
– David Suzuki
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Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.
– Honore de Balzac
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Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours every year. That's the equivalent of more than 1,200 police officer posts. These reforms are a watershed moment in policing. They show that we really mean business in busting bureaucracy.
– Theresa May
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To talk about a relationship trivializes something that's nobody's business.
– Jennifer Aniston
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To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise.
– Dave Eggers
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To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.
– Richard Branson
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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
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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
– Andre Malraux
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To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have.
– Fiona Shaw
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This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
– Bill Gates
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This film business, perhaps more so in America than in Europe, has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre, but in America, film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America.
– Jacqueline Bisset
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They keep the old business. We keep the ongoing business.
– Harvey Weinstein
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There's not a business or a master plan as far as I'm concerned. I take it week by week, and I don't think you ever expect to be able to do the next thing.
– Lauren Conrad
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There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.
– Tupac Shakur
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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.
– David Letterman
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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
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There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.
– Maureen O'Hara
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There's a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can't write. It's a big business.
– Tori Amos
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There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said, 'No, I can do that in the business world, create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.'
– Muhammad Yunus
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There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.
– Alexander McQueen
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There is one other business where the customer is always wrong and that's the media.
– Rush Limbaugh
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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
– Lee Iacocca
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There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions.
– Michael Bloomberg
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There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.
– Russell Baker
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There is a fundamental shift that social media necessitates in business today - the need to transition from 'Me First' to 'We First' thinking.
– Simon Mainwaring
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There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.
– Wentworth Miller
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There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.
– Jeff Bezos
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There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.
– Jeff Bezos
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There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change?
– Andrea Jung
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There are people in the public sector with a range of experiences that have no equivalent in business, but are essential to governing, like keeping a kid in school or helping someone get and hold a job. The value of those skills can't easily be measured against a bottom line.
– Dee Dee Myers
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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
– Colin Powell
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There are no right and wrong ways to work in this business, but there are some basic common-sense practices. Work very, very hard and always be prepared never give up and once you get the job, give them more than they ever expected: - Shine!
– Jimmy Smits
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The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.
– Igor Sikorsky
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The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you're able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too.
– Elton John
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The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
– Benjamin Jowett
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The TV business is like the produce section of the market. Today everything is fresh and glistening and firm. And tomorrow, when they find a bruise on you, they toss you out.
– Bryan Cranston
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The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.
– Brian Tracy
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The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.
– Charlton Heston
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The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
– George Bernard Shaw
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The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me.
– Alton Brown
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The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.
– Roy L. Smith
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The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
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The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.
– Jimmy Buffett
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The social business marketplace is effectively forcing brands to engage with consumers on the basis of something that is meaningful to them. More often than not, this takes the form of some core value that finds expression in a non-profit cause.
– Simon Mainwaring
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The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.
– Henry Louis Gates
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The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.
– Robert Anton Wilson
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The rest of the world cares about how we conduct our affairs because they then take that lead. We're the only leader in the world today. Some are wishing us well, others think that we're down and are not going to get back up again, but they are all watching with great interest to see how we conduct our business over the next couple of years.
– Jon Huntsman, Jr.
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The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did.
– Rand Paul
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