“I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone's got their own definition.”
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“I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news.”
“I have watched people who have nothing to do with the film business, but who have become part of the circle for a short period of time. They can be truly devastated when the film wraps and people leave.”
“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.”
“Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.”
“I hate show business.”
“I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate.”
“The message I take all round the world is Britain is open for business.”
“I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.”
“In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're obsolete.”
“Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.”
“I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.”
“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.”
“You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'?”
“Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business.”
“Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.”
“Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.”
“Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations they are there to make money.”
“I'll never forget that show season. It was completely mad. I was staying between Christy and Naomi's rooms and it was all limos and the Ritz Hotel and all that kind of business.”
“I have made some of the best friends that I've got in this business.”
“By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.”
“It is the business of the future to be dangerous and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.”
“My curiosity and my appetite for evolving as an actor is one of the main components of me still working today in the business.”
“It's a reality that in this business there's an expectation of being thin. But having a baby is a reality too, and it's more important for me to make milk than to fit into those tiny pants. So that's just going to have to wait.”