Industry Quotes - Page 10

• The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of users; every time they get more powerful, old customers upgrade.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Powerful, Computer, Appeals

  "The Physicist" by Stewart Brand, www.wired.com. September 1, 1995.

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• The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

  Ralph Nader

  Fun, Green World, Oil

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• For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.

  Ralph Nader

  Life, Years, Bulls

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• It's very easy to confuse Sean Connery with James Bond. Sometimes in the entertainment industry, people believe the cake is more real than the baker.

  Judd Nelson

  Real, Believe, Cake

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

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• In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It's sure been tough on my nails.

  Jack Nicholson

  Two, Nails, Ladders

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• Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

  Alfred Nobel

  Second Chance, Agriculture, Age

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• In Hollywood there's a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there's a great suspicion of the new. In cultural terms, that can be a good thing, but when you're trying to break into the film industry, it's definitely a bad thing.

  Christopher Nolan

  People, Trying, England

  "He's not a god - he's human". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2005.

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• The film industry needs to confront the physical footprint of the way films get made.

  Edward Norton

  Needs, Way, Film

  "Edward Norton offers Earth-friendly advice" by Mike Celizic, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.

  Gary Numan

  Writing, Artist, Thinking

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• Imagine how foolish you'd look if, like one clever salesman who once pitched to me, you tried to license your product to a big industry player without knowing they just launched a competing product. With the right background research, he could have avoided that and other landmines - and so can you.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Clever, Player, Knowing

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• The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Life, Self, Complacency

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• When you look at what people consider success in the music industry, it's just terrible music.

  Conor Oberst

  People, Looks, Terrible

  "Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes". Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. December 11, 2007.

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• I did not feel 'evil' when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years.

  David Ogilvy

  Country, Years, Evil

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• For me, the '60s in the automotive industry was awesome. The cars are heavy, huge, rolling works of art.

  Apolo Ohno

  Art, Car, Rolling

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• I want to break into the acting industry. It's something I have a great deal of respect for; it's a passion of mine. It's so amazing, the differences between acting and being an athlete, but the one commonality is they both evoke emotion in the viewer. And those emotions are real. So I think that's pretty cool.

  Apolo Ohno

  Real, Athlete, Passion

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• Indie music is 'it' now. It's kind of a revolution to the music: 1980s, 1990s music was getting very sanitized; they were complying with the music industry. Music was getting more and more dead in a way. Now, because of the social climate that's very severe, the artists are compelled to start being real. It's really great that indie music is now.

  Yoko Ono

  Real, Artist, Climate

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• The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that.

  Yoko Ono

  Powerful, War, Simple

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• Certainly the advent of technology and electronic commerce has had an immense impact on the real estate industry.

  Michael Oxley

  Real, Technology, Impact

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• Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind social changes in the United States. And why has there never been an all-black daytime network soap? It would probably blow the white soaps off the map.

  Camille Paglia

  Blow, White, African American

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• The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.

  Brian De Palma

  Real, Teaching, School

  Brian De Palma, Laurence F. Knapp (2003). “Interviews”, p.61, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Fashion, Art, New York

  "Good sense and black lace stilettos" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2006.

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• We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.

  Rand Paul

  Government, Buying, Financial

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• What I've said repeatedly is, 'I think the auto industry is a very important industry.'

  Henry Paulson

  Thinking, Important, Said

  "NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, dollarsandsense.org.

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• I'm never there enough to really keep up with what's going on in the Australian film industry. I just try and be part of it as much as I can.

  Guy Pearce

  Trying, Film, Enough

  Interview with Jenni Miller, www.gq.com. April 12, 2012.

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• I always think the really unfortunate thing about the Australian film industry is its lack of momentum. And I don't mean this in a derogatory way. I'm always wanting it to pick up momentum, and I'm wondering if that's even possible.

  Guy Pearce

  Mean, Thinking, Unfortunate Things

  "Q+A: Guy Pearce, Man with a Gun". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. May 21, 2012.

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