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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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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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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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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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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A lot of family members worked in the joint commodities family business. It was a classic case of capitalism at work and socialism at home.
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It's weird because my parents don't really understand my business. I get fan mail all day long, but if a piece happens to get to their house, they're like, 'Oh, my God, you've got a fan! You have to write them back. You have to do it!'
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To defend our country we need to gather intelligence on the enemy, but when the intelligence lies to Congress, how are we to trust them? The phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business.
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I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.
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In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.
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Philanthropists can learn important lessons from business entrepreneurs. They both spend their time solving problems. And to be successful, they both must overcome physical challenges and create self-sustaining operations. And ultimately, they must allow people to take action for their own benefit.
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After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.
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The whole business is a gamble. There's no real stability, you're kind of just floating around like a feather your whole life.
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'You look older, son.''Yes, well, some of us have to get on with the business of being alive in the entropic universe.'
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The way I run my business seems to be easier than the way I run my life.
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Because I didn't have much money, I bought a small shop that fit my budget. The previous six owners had closed their business in three years. The store had no people traffic and, because of that, I was able to focus on figuring out how to provide a better service to each and every one of the customers that did come through.
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Although the U.S. economy has managed modest real growth through 2002 and into 2003, most economists agree that a strong and well-balanced recovery will require a greater contribution from the business sector, in the form of increased capital investment and hiring.
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People might have the impression I had an easy life, but it's been anything but that.
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There is certainly a strong game development community in Texas, centered around Austin, with a significant additional contingency coming over from Dallas.
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For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic.
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When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.
