M.I.A. Quotes
The consequence of making it a business thing and making an artist the same as a Wall Street trader is that you do get a robot by the end of it. It becomes more robotic as opposed to being more soulful.
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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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Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.
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There's precedent for adjudicatory proceedings on technology issues to have massive consumer and business benefits. One of the most famous was the so-called Carterfone decision in 1968.
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Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.
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Suits are looked at more now as a business thing which is kind of a shame. If you're not wearing it just for work, you should try and trick it up a bit.
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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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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
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I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.
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All roads lead to Wall Street, but we feel the effects of Wall Street on every street corner. Certainly in Syracuse, N.Y., where I live.
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I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
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The biggest misconception people have about me is that when they see how young I am, they think, 'Oh, this guy must have always wanted to be in politics; his parents must have been politically connected.' I'm a finance major and always intended to go into business.
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Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.
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There is no longer any anonymity on the Web - unless we mandate it. The most personal information about your online habits is collected, bought and sold, often instantaneously and invisibly. Data collection is a business driven by profits at consumers' expense.
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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 it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.
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Whaling was the oil business of its day.
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Touring is really a pretty lonely business.
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I've heard that George Clooney did something like nine pilots before 'ER' was picked up, way back when he was doing TV. It's just the way the business works. There are a lot of pilots that we've never seen. It's protocol.
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If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.
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Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow.
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The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were mostly original stories where I had complete freedom to evolve in the direction I wanted.
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Memo to himself: the one way to make people panic was to warn them not to.
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The consequence of making it a business thing and making an artist the same as a Wall Street trader is that you do get a robot by the end of it. It becomes more robotic as opposed to being more soulful.
