Quotes with non-business

Quotes 201 till 220 of 698.

  • Billie Holiday I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Anthony Holden I personally felt that his ad hominen attacks on British architects were not the sort of thing a Prince of Wales should be doing because, apart from anything else, they put various people out of business.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Raymond Chandler I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical cat lovers in the business. If you hate them, I may learn to hate you. If your allergies hate them, I will tolerate the situation to the best of my ability.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Gertrude Stein I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan I started trying to be a writer and failed for years. I tried novels, short stories, sitcoms, movies, plays, anything. And then, to support myself, I had millions of jobs on the fringes of show business.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I want to be the best actor that I can be; I want to be working in this business absolutely, and if that means being a movie star, then OK, that's fine. But to me, movie star, celebrity, all that stuff means something very different than being an actor.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Alfred P. Sloan I wanted to be a columnist so badly that I took a huge pay cut to leave Forbes, which wouldn't give me a column, and join Newsday, which wanted my column for its Sunday business section.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Alan Greenspan 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.
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Brock Lesnar I was a true wrestler. I was a Division I national champion. I came into the business wanting one thing and one thing only, and that was to be the champion, and I wasn't going to let anybody stand in my way. I think there was one guy that had a problem with that, and that was Undertaker.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Charles M. Schwab I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.
    Charles M. Schwab
    American industrialist (1862 - 1939)
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  • Kim Basinger I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.
    Kim Basinger
     
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  • R. Geis I wouldn't mind dying - it's the business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me.
    R. Geis
     
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  • Bill Rancic I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Bill Goldberg I'm a professional athlete. I've been paid since I was in my early 20s to go out there and fight with guys who were 40 or 50 pounds heavier than I am and fight for my life. I got into a business where people make decisions based on some of the most stupid things.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Henrik Ibsen I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • George Burns I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
    George Burns
    American Comedy Actor (1896 - 1996)
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  • Bruce Nordstrom I'm not sure how to say this without making it sound corny, but I honestly feel this is the way to run a business. Our work force needs to mirror these communities, and we've got to get aggressive in recruiting and promoting minorities.
    Bruce Nordstrom
    American businessman (1933 - )
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  • Bun E. Carlos I'm still involved in the business of Cheap Trick, so I keep my eye on that kind of stuff.
    Bun E. Carlos
    American drummer (1950 - )
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  • Ben Casnocha I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an entrepreneur and other things of interest to me.
    Ben Casnocha
    American author, entrepreneur, and investor (1988 - )
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  • Bert Lance I've always tried to set some kind of goal. I want to be better than anybody in the banking business, and when I ran the Highway Department in Georgia, I wanted it to be the best in the country. And of course, I have a high sense of public service.
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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