Jacques Barzun Quotes
In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.
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What we won't become is a 'Democratic Party lite!' We are a party that wants smaller government and lower taxes. Obama and the Democrats do not. We are a party that wants to encourage small business. We are a party that has a large constituent group that believes in a social agenda and we will not abandon them.
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Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
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If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.
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Getting into the residential investment business entails lots of renovation work.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
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I love design in general, the creativity. Whether it is golf courses, my apparel line, ads we do or our business with AriZona, design is fun.
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I do that mostly because I believe that the fantasy business is in terrible trouble right now, for several reasons, not the least of which being the almost Democrat vs. Republican mentality of readers on the Internet.
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Just like the Internet disrupted the publishing industry, we're going to see Bitcoin micropayments creating some very interesting opportunities for pay-as-you-go, pay-based-on-time online businesses and, frankly, some risks as well to the traditional business model as to how things get sold online.
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I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
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If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.
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Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.
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I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.
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You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
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But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.
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You know, I lose patience really easily; I'd rather shop in the grocery store than in the department store. I can pick an apple like nobody's business.
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I don't want to close the door that if any of us were president of the United States that we would sit idly by and watch something like the Holocaust go down. I don't want to close the door on the United States involving themselves and putting a stop to that. Can we spend money on that? Yeah, I think so.
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When I started in the business years ago, people would always say, 'You better get as much work as you can now, because once you get over 40, it's over.'
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And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question... at completely different levels.
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True and False are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood.
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In my film 'Queen', there was a funny moment with the bra. My director called and said they are blurring the bra. They said it is vulgar. Our director was furious about it. We are artistes... We see props as they are. A woman's bra is not a danger to the society.
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It's okay to be confident, but not arrogant.
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In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.
