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• The philosophy of being able as a woman to decide what you want and being unashamed about making it happen was new. Most successful businessmen are in that role. 'No' is never perceived as the end of the line. 'No' just means picking a new avenue.

  Sharon Stone

  Philosophy, Mean, Successful

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• Looking at these issues as a businessman, I believe that investing in the world's poorest people is the smartest way that our government spends money.

  Bill Gates

  Believe, Government, Issues

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• One can't imagine a Hollywood film whose entire purpose was to ridicule, say, homosexual activists, feminists, animal rights crusaders, or environmentalists. That would be blasphemy. Hollywood understands that religious people, particularly Christians, are the last group in America besides businessmen who may be defamed with impunity.

  Lloyd Billingsley

  Christian, Religious, Animal

  K. Lloyd Billingsley (1999). “The Seductive Image: Cinema and the Christian Faith”, p.119, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The real trouble with the doctor image in America is that it has been grayed by the image of the doctor-as-businessman, the doctor-as-bureaucrat, the doctor-as-medical-robot, and the doctor-as-terrified-victim-of-malpractice-suits.

  Shana Alexander

  Real, Doctors, America

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• Many businessmen fail to understand Python principles--the ultimate absurdity was an offer from America to buy the 'format' of the Python shows, that is, Monty Python without the Pythons--corporate methods do not have the conceptual framework to deal with an anarchist collective, run by intelligent and arrogant comedians who have proved that their method works.

  Robert Hewison

  Friends, Running, Failure

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• Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control.

  Pauline Kael

  Artist, Television, Mediums

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• Mitt Romney is a businessman, a turnaround artist, a CEO. That is who he is. The former governor has experience in the public and private sector.

  Mark McKinnon

  Artist, Ceo, Former

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• A Pakistan businessman is claiming that John Walker Lindh is gay and that he was his lover. Say what you will about Lindh, but when this guy goes to play for the other team - he goes all the way ... So Lindh may be both a terrorist and a gay man. That may be John Ashcroft's worst nightmare.

  Jay Leno

  Team, Gay, Men

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• I'm sure there are writers who are great businessmen, but I
  never met any.

  Arthur Miller

  Great Business, Mets, Great Businessman

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• As a writer, politician, scientist, and businessman, [Ben] Franklin had few equals among the educated of his day-though he left school at ten. (...)Boys like Andrew Carnegie who begged his mother not to send him to school and was well on his way to immortality and fortune at the age of thirteen, would be referred today for psychological counseling; Thomas Edison would find himself in Special Ed until his peculiar genius had been sufficiently tamed.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Mother, School, Boys

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• If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  War, Sometimes, Treaties

  "Letter to an American". Essay by Antoine de Saint Exupery, www.416th.com. July 1944.

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• My father was funnier than me. My father was Richard Pryor-funny. I'm just a better businessman.

  Tracy Morgan

  Father

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• My dad was a businessman, and he would say, 'Work for free at the best company. Don't get paid a lot of money to work with the worst people.' And that's exactly how I see my career.

  Topher Grace

  Dad, Careers, People

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• The actor's role in the community is quite unlike anyone else's. Businessmen, for example, don't take their clothes off or cry in front of strangers in the course of their work. Actors do.

  Wallace Shawn

  Clothes, Community, Example

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The book 'A Reliable Wife' is a slice of American history. It takes a part of American history and tells a story about the purchase of a wife by a Wisconsin businessman. The research of that would have been really interesting.

  Patti LuPone

  Book, Interesting, Wife

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• Are soft-hearted people handicapped in business? You have heard a businessman say of someone else, He's all right, but he's too soft-hearted.... To be soft-hearted may be handicapping, in a sense. But on the whole, a soft heart is to be preferred to a hard heart. Hard-hearted, severe, dominating giants sometimes manage to get further and to amass more money. But they get less genuine joy out of life.... It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most to endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.

  B. C. Forbes

  Heart, People, Joy

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• The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

  Ad Reinhardt

  Artist

  Ad Reinhardt (1975). “Art-as-art: the selected writings of Ad Reinhardt”, Viking Adult

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• My father has a manufacturing company in Kentucky and he's an electrical engineer. A brilliant man. A brilliant businessman. So he understands the business aspects of my business very well. My dad and I always communicate when I have to negotiate a deal.

  Laura Bell Bundy

  Dad, Father, Men

  "PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Laura Bell Bundy". Interview with Robert Simonson, www.playbill.com. March 13, 2007.

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• My father was a businessman. We had discussions about honesty and dishonesty.

  John Cullum

  Honesty, Father, Discussion

  "Q&A – John Cullum (Lee Garner Sr. of Lucky Strike)". Interview with Ashley Shaw, www.amc.com. November 2011.

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• Dad loves my stuff. No matter how many times my voice cracks or I miss a tap, he doesn't care. He's like some businessman making it to his kid's recital.

  Peter DeLuise

  Dad, Kids, Voice

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• We are quite convinced that if he were alive today, as an astute businessman looking out to the future, he would be moving out of fossil fuels and investing in clean, renewable energy.

  Stephen Heintz

  Business, Moving, Today

  "Heirs to Rockefeller oil fortune divest from fossil fuels over climate change" by Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2014.

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• In a global arena, what our businessmen need in order to be competitive is transparency and a level playing-field.

  Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

  Order, Levels, Fields

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• I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when the British and American governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas.

  George Galloway

  Gun, Government, Opponents

  "Galloway defends himself at US Senate" by Simon Jeffery, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2005.

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• I appear wild on the outside, but I'm a conservative businessman.

  Donny Deutsch

  Conservative

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• If you owe fifty dollars you're a piker; if you owe fifty thousand dollars you're a businessman; if you owe fifty million dollars you're a tycoon; if you owe fifty billion dollars you're the government.

  Sam Levenson

  Government, Fifty, Dollars

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