Michael Douglas Quotes
When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.
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I don't think the federal government has any business keeping a list of law-abiding Americans who exercise their constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
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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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My parents never got carried away with the extraneous elements of being in the business.
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Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas.
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But every company of the future is going to be in the business of exquisite care - which means quick turnaround time and convenience. To deliver exquisite care, you need an organization that coordinates well and listens well.
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I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice' was a business book. I'm very surprised and gratified that the business world thought it was one.
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If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.
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I feel very strongly that you shouldn't mix your emotions with business. When it comes to my emotions, I certainly don't mix them with my business.
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The one thing that's going to get you through this business is having strong roots, being grounded and knowing what is true.
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You might say that I'm the Michelangelo of the dress business.
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Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.
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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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Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I think I learned from my father the unspoken business language or instincts that go back thousands of years.
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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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For us, it is very important all the time that our core business is really good but that we don't stop moving.
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They planned this fair to bring business to Chicago, into the Loop. But you could have fired a cannon down state street and hit nobody, because everybody was out at the fair.
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Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.
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As a CEO of a large company, clearly we need policies in the U.S. government that are pro-business, because at the end of the day, we all work within the framework of a country's policies.
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At every meeting, I mention that if I am doing something personally that gets in the way of progress for the company - or something needs to change - please come and tell me.
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I write and record all the time; it's my hobby and my passion.
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Usually we are illuminating things instead of looking at the light itself. But I like this quality of the light being the revelation.
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There was never a golden era of American radio as far as I can tell.
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Even with the most horrendous things that happen and the tremendous pain that people have to deal with, they still laugh, because I think that's what it means to be human.
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When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.
