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It's not my business to think about the business; it's my business to think about the character. Sure, there have been times in my career where I wished I was more popular or more this or more that - but that's just stupid.

Lee Pace

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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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The combination of a workable basic formula and the capacity to improve over time is what one hopes for in any aspect of society: business, government, the non-profit sector.

Michael Spence

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The cost to do business in Australia is higher, and the lack of scale is a part of that - Australia is a very small market compared to the U.S.

Gerry Harvey

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We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.

Adlai Stevenson I

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Nowadays, business is all about productivity - and our folks produce.

John Hoeven

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I wanted a CFO with public company experience; I needed an HR department, new office space, and a board which could help me grow the business. Insight, the private equity firm I chose, helped me with all that.

Jon Oringer

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To be fair, the collection business does have a few good people in it. But it also has those who will lie and make threats.

Dave Ramsey

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It was Labor Day weekend in 1983, and Dad hired me to run Mick's Lounge, a bar he co-owned, for $200 a week. The business was nearly bankrupt. But I said, 'Dad, I can fix it.' It was the most natural thing I'd ever done. It just made sense to me.

John Schnatter

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The music business doesn't take up that much of my time. I probably should put a little more energy into it.

Alan Jackson

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I grew up around the business quite a bit; I saw a little bit of the underbelly of it.

Simon Helberg

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This whole business feels kind of intense, like a bad fit. Round peg, square hole. But whatever, I'll take it.

Paul Giamatti

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I don't accept my business the way it is, to be honest. I don't like what it's become. I don't blame anyone for it becoming the way it has. It's got its own hideous natural progression, just like world events.

Rupert Everett

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The genomics revolution, proteomics, metabolomics, all of these 'omics' that sound so terrific on grants and on business plans. What we're doing is we are seizing control of our evolutionary future. I mean we're essentially using technology to just jam evolution into fast-forward.

Gregory Stock

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I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.

Izaak Walton

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When I was starting out, I didn't know what the hell I was doing and my person who was helping me out, I didn't even have an agent, got me five or six big auditions for leads in movies in 1986 that I had no business auditioning for. I think I ran out of three of them before I'd even finished.

John Corbett

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Lula da Silva was my hero when he was president. I Googled him so many times. The fact that he got 20 million people out of poverty... that happened by encouraging entrepreneurship, by supporting small business.

Joyce Banda

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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. Mine, I suppose, is to know myself.

Eric Clapton

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When you win a Grammy... you're thinking about you winning. It is amazing. Your peers and folks in the record business are saying, 'This is what we think of you.' And that's why the Grammy will always be, to me, the ultimate in what you get as far as a music trophy, because it is the one.

Yolanda Adams

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I make it my business to be around people that don't look like me or think like me or act like me. I want to learn from them.

Andy Mineo

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In any business that grows big on one business model, transitions can throw everything in the air.

Bing Gordon

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I don't do albums for album sales. I just do it as a conversation piece and a business card.

Statik Selektah

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Being an actor gives you a chance to play all kinds of roles, very moving and dramatic on one project, silly and girlish on another. That's the most interesting thing out this business, you get to keep reinventing yourself.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

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You hear a lot of writers talk like writing is therapy or some kind of magic art, but it's a business.

Robert Ben Garant

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