Minding My Own Business Quotes

• Let people do what they need to do to make them happy. Mind your own business, and do what you need to do to make you happy.

  Leon Brown

  Life, People, Mind Your Own Business

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  Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Accomplishment, Presidential, Political

  1929 Press conference, Mar.

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• Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

  William S. Burroughs

  Business, Mind, Atheism

  William S. Burroughs (1993). “The Adding Machine: Selected Essays”, p.16, Arcade Publishing

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• I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, 'You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit.' As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Running, Block

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• There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.

  William S. Burroughs

  Mind Your Own Business, Provocative, Mind Your Own

  William S. Burroughs (2013). “The Place of Dead Roads: A Novel”, p.117, Holt Paperbacks

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• Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

  Plato

  Mean, Men, Justice

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• My life, my choices, my mistakes, my lessons- NOT YOUR BUSINESS.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Meaningful, Mistake, Choices

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• Good fences make good neighbors.

  Robert Frost

  Alaska, Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder, Mind Your Own Business

  "MendingWall" l. 25 (1914)

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• Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Leadership, Perseverance

  "Speed, Simplicity, Self-Confidence". Interview with Noel Tichy and Ram Charan, hbr.org. September/October 1989.

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• Before Rocky III, I was minding my own business, there was a Tough Man contest. I won that contest two years in a row and I didn't win because I was the toughest, the roughest or the baddest. I won when I was training for the contest, I told my pastor "They're having a contest and when I win the contest I'm a give you the money so you can buy food and clothes for the less fortunate people in the community." That was what Mr. T was about, that was back in 1979. I didn't have a car then but that's what I'm about.

  Mr. T

  Winning, Men, Years

  Source: allhiphop.com

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• You grow up real quick, a half-Mexican in a sailor's suit, because I'd be riding the streetcar to school everyday - minding my own business, humming out a 'Frere Jacques' - and I realized that in any other town, this might be considered cute. But you know what it is in San Francisco? Sexy.

  Al Madrigal

  Cute, Sexy, Growing Up

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• I'd be in the backyard minding my own business. The other kids would call me names, like meatball head or neo-Calvinist. I'd run after them, but lucky for them the chain would snap my neck back.

  Emo Philips

  Running, Kids, Names

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• I'm sitting in the bus station, minding my own business, reading 'Ta-Da!' magazine; a magazine by and for gay magicians, but that's a different story.

  Dave Attell

  Funny, Reading, Humor

  "Skanks for the Memories". Comedy album, 2003.

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• I think if you look at any facet of nature in enough detail, you find it fascinating. How could you not? The universe is so full of marvels. Here's an example -- rain, the shape of rain. I was minding my own business, working on my book, looking out the window, and it was raining and I was noticing that the raindrops were falling in that classic round-looking way, and I thought, 'I wonder if raindrops really are round?' So I started researching it a little, and I discovered that raindrops change shape 300 times a second.

  Diane Ackerman

  Rain, Book, Fall

  "Understanding writers, down to the letter / How do authors think? Interviews get behind the words to the creative process" by Steve Weinberg, www.sfgate.com. September 11, 2005.

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• You see, years ago I was just an ordinary bee minding my own business, smelling flowers all day, and occasionally picking up part-time work in people's bonnets. Then one day I realized that I'd never amount to anything without an education and, being naturally adept at spelling, I decided that—

  Norton Juster

  Flower, Years, People

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.54, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I was minding my own business, really, and then all of a sudden, Hollywood approached me.

  Kelly Brook

  Hollywood, My Own, Own Business

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• I was minding my own business when something says to me, "you ought to blow trumpet." I have just been trying ever since.

  Miles Davis

  Blow, Trying, Trumpets

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• I'm not into those kind of rivalries. I remember standing out in front of Stratford, minding my own business. Carload of about eighty kids would pull up: 'STRATFORD SUCKS!' Am I supposed to run after these guys? I'd just stand there, you know. They'd back up. 'STRATFORD SUCKS! ...STRATFORD SUCKS!' I'd say, 'I know. I go there. You're wasting gas, man.

  Bill Hicks

  Running, Kids, Men

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