“It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.”
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“Golf isn't just my business, it's my hobby.”
“I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail.”
“It's show business. No show, no business.”
“When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I've drunk Amazon's free Diet Coke. Nothing makes more sense to me than a company trying to make bookselling into a profitable business. I'm not anti-Amazon, and I'm not pro-publishers either. I'm pro-books.”
“Seems to me that this business, for actors anyway, is not so much about whether or not you do good work. It's about whether or not you get the chance to do good work.”
“In my business, if I get too close to you and you die, it hurts me. And so you develop a natural inclination not to be close to the patient, so that if things don't work out ideally, you can still get up the next day and care for the next patient.”
“If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months.”
“Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it's our business.”
“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.”
“I was always a singer. But I was always focused on being an actor as my trade. Music I do just for me. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible.”
“In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste and learn about cooking from the best chefs in the business.”
“I was criticized at some level within the Republican Party by those who say government should not be in the economic development business at all. My response is that the only country I know that doesn't have an economic development plan is Papa New Guinea.”
“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.”
“Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.”
“I would absolutely, definitely never sell my wedding pictures to a magazine. I'd like it to be a special day, not a photo shoot. And once you've done that, your marriage becomes everybody else's business.”
“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.”
“I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.”
“I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.”
“Well, you can't trust most people in this game, period it can be a very shady business.”
“A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.”