Marcus Lemonis Quotes
I'm really not a great businessperson. I understand business, and I understand numbers, but I think what I understand more than that is people... Ultimately, I think businesses fail and people fail because they don't have their act together.
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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
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I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
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I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
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It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the political considerations and do what is right for the future of our nation.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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'SVU' is one of my favorite shows. When I got the call to appear and play myself, I jumped at the chance. Obviously, I went over my lines, but playing yourself is a really great way to get your feet wet in the acting field. I enjoyed being on set and learning as much as I could about the scripted world.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
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People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.
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Everybody in the entertainment industry is insecure.
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There is something exciting about being in an environment in which it's really cool to be smart.
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It's kind of nice to play somebody that isn't psychotic or half-machine or dead or dying or on a spaceship somewhere.
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But that in any city, in any cluster of people, there a few people who are awake at this hour, who are both awake and dancing, and it’s here that we need to be. That if we are living as we were this week, that we had to be awake with the people who are still dancing.
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I'm really not a great businessperson. I understand business, and I understand numbers, but I think what I understand more than that is people... Ultimately, I think businesses fail and people fail because they don't have their act together.
