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I always wanted to be a zookeeper when I was growing up, and I've wound up a zookeeper! I've been working with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years! I'm the luckiest old broad on two feet because my life is divided absolutely in half - half animals and half show business. You can't ask for better than two things you love the most.
– Betty White
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I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.
– Jesse Ventura
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How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they've got that great business idea.
– Mark Burnett
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How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave, or are 14, which seems to be true for most people in this business, what could I possibly tell them that they don't already know?
– Marlee Matlin
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Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!
– Robin Williams
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Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.
– E. W. Howe
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Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.'
– Carly Fiorina
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Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.
– Kevin Mitnick
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Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.
– Jesse Ventura
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Golf isn't just my business, it's my hobby.
– Lee Trevino
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God will forgive me that's his business.
– Heinrich Heine
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Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.
– Rand Paul
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Girls shouldn't worry about being the equal of men in the business world.
– Marilyn Monroe
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
– Samuel Johnson
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Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.
– David Brainerd
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Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.
– Mitt Romney
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For the first time we're allowing developers who don't work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That's a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.
– Mark Zuckerberg
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For me, my business is my business and my house is my house. I don't want the public in my house.
– Heidi Klum
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For many my behavior has been a major disappointment, my behavior has caused considerable worry to my business partners, and everyone involved in my business, but most importantly to the young people we influence, I apologize.
– Tiger Woods
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For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.
– Howard Nemerov
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Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends.
– Janice Dickinson
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Female rappers get it the hardest. You have to be a girl, yet you have to be just as hard as the guys. I think some female rappers get scared out of the business before they can make it.
– Nicki Minaj
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Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.
– Tom Allen
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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
– Robert H. Schuller
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Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.
– Jeff Goodell
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Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.
– Russell Baker
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
– Venus Williams
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Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.
– Clara Barton
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Every night, half an hour before curtain up, the bells of St. Malachy's, the Actors' Chapel on New York's 49th Street, peal the tune of 'There's No Business Like Show Business.' If you walk the streets of the theatre district before a show and see the vast, enthusiastic lines it sounds like a calling: there is certainly no place like Broadway.
– Dan Stevens
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Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.
– Lee Iacocca
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Even if the chef has a good business head, his focus should be behind kitchen doors. A business partner should take care of everything in front of the kitchen doors.
– Bobby Flay
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Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.
– Christopher Lasch
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Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation.
– John Sununu
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Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.
– Stephen Covey
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Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.
– Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
– Napoleon Hill
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Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
– Elbert Hubbard
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Don't think of yourself as a woman in business.
– Carly Fiorina
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Don't solicit feedback on your product, idea or your business just for validation purposes. You want to tell the people who can help move your idea forward, but if you're just looking to your friend, co-worker, husband or wife for validation, be careful. It can stop a lot of multimillion-dollar ideas in their tracks in the beginning.
– Sara Blakely
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Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.
– Gary Ryan Blair
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Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all.
– Peter Singer
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Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.
– Dalton Trumbo
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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
– Abraham Lincoln
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Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
– Tom Robbins
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Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.
– Margaret Sanger
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Detainee policy in this war is hard, it's complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a nation if we could close Gitmo safely and start a new prison that he could use that the world would see as a better way to doing business.
– Lindsey Graham
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Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity. We think 'we're all in this together' is a better philosophy than 'you're on your own.'
– William J. Clinton
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Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.
– John Cusack
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Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here.
– Elizabeth Arden
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Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.
– Charlie Sheen
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Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.
– Jim Carrey
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Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations they are there to make money.
– Benjamin Carson
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Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.
– Neil Young
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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
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Come to West Virginia and we'll show you how to live... how to treat people. We're open for business. West Virginia is truly on the move.
– Joe Manchin III
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Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong.
– Maurice Sendak
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Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.
– Stanislaw Lem
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By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.
– Lawrence Welk
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But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.
– Jodie Foster
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But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.
– Erykah Badu
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But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence of a regulator. It kills the people trying to start a business.
– Marco Rubio
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But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it's virtually impossible. It's very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms.
– Donald Trump
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But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.
– Steve Jobs
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Business practices and how we treat the planet are also in desperate need of re-humanization.
– Simon Mainwaring
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Business is tough you need tough guys.
– Carlos Ghosn
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Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we're going to win.
– Kevin O'Leary
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Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.
– James Dyson
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Business is in itself a power.
– Garet Garrett
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Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.
– William Feather
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Business can be a source of progressive change.
– Jerry Greenfield
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Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing.
– Peter Singer
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Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.
– Mitt Romney
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Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.
– Carroll O'Connor
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Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.
– Michael Porter
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Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll always have some clean air to breathe.
– Julia Child
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Being in the business and growing up in L.A., I think I turned out pretty OK.
– Emma Roberts
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Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores - these didn't come out of nowhere.
– Paul Ryan
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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
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Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street.
– John Sununu
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Barack Obama doesn't believe in free enterprise. He's never going to admit it. For instance, he's never going to come straight out and say, 'If you own a business you didn't build it.' Alright, maybe he will.
– Marco Rubio
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At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that.
– John Legend
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At the end of drama school, I made a contract with myself: I'd try acting for five years. I was 26. I had already spent eight years working in restaurants and gas stations. So I had seen enough small businesses to understand that that's what acting is: a small business.
– Hugh Jackman
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As you watch the world crumble, try taking your Armageddon with this sprinkling of irony: Over the last three decades, business has got virtually everything it wanted, and its doomsday scenario from the 1970s has come true because of it.
– Thomas Frank
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As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.
– Morgan Freeman
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As Members of Congress we can now engage with our constituents via online innovations like the Huffington Post, while a small business in rural Oregon can use the Internet to find customers around the world.
– Ron Wyden
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As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.
– Mia Wasikowska
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As a speaker, business leader or marketer of any type, the onus is now on each of us to become equally capable of communicating very personally with a seemingly endless number of people connected by social technologies.
– Simon Mainwaring
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As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business.
– Rocco DiSpirito
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Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.
– David Byrne
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Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.
– Russell Baker
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Anybody who really knows about the TV business knows that it would be impossible to just march in one day and say to your colleagues and bosses, 'Oh yes, I'm hosting my own show.'
– Andy Cohen
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Any work that's worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That's true if you're running a business, it's true if you're trying to help on a campaign.
– Carly Fiorina
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And what most people don't understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business.
– Alphonso Jackson
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And then there's all these other creeps that surround your band and suck off you like leeches and try to manipulate you and your business. You have to watch like a hawk. I'm always ready to fight. I see it very much as a battle.
– Shirley Manson
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And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.
– Tom Hanks
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And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.
– Shaquille O'Neal
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And I trusted someone to look after me on the business side of life.
– Elton John
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And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare.
– Mitt Romney
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An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
– Laurence J. Peter
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Americans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide a quality of opportunity, not compel a quality of results. And that is why this is only place in the world where you can open up a business in the spare bedroom of your home.
– Marco Rubio
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