Brent Spiner Quotes
And, you know, when you are a kid, everybody wants to be an actor. I think that everybody wants to be in show business, frankly.
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I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.
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I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.
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I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.
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Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.
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Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.
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Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.
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In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
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I didn't get here for my acting... but I love show business.
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The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.
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I think movie and television companies are in the business of making money, and if you have a franchise, eventually you'll want to exploit that franchise and revisit it. So I assume at some point someone will do another story in the 'Lost' world.
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I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.
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I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.
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Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy.
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Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business.
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I learned a lot from Dick Wolf. I'll always remember playing that character because it was such a good character. It was great to be able to be a character like that for television. I think the thing that I'll bring from the whole experience, the whole 10 years, is I had never been interested in the television business before.
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Ukrainian business must really embrace global competition. We need to understand that competition for resources and clients is not with competitors from across the street or from another city, but with millions of businesses around the world.
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Whaling was the oil business of its day.
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I'm a school dropout. So, at the age of 16, I moved to Mumbai to try my luck on some business.
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Don't think of yourself as a woman in business.
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I think, you know, a lot of the business of comedy is taking your personal experiences and making them relatable to other people.
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One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people - men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach.
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Over the years it [the National Committee for Mental Hygiene] has championed for the promotion of 'mental health' despite the fact that nobody knows what it is or how to do it.
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I couldn't be where I am today if I had children. My focus would be on my children and home. And you can do it later in life.
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And, you know, when you are a kid, everybody wants to be an actor. I think that everybody wants to be in show business, frankly.
