Executives Quotes - Page 22

• [Television executives] are afraid to advertise condoms that could save lives, but do not blush about telecasting a National Geographic special on President Reagan's pelvic plumbing.

  Martin Nolan

  Special, President, Television

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• Of course I knew The Band's Canadian keyboard player, the late Richard Manuel, but I didn't play that night because I was there as a guest with my record executives. People ask, "why didn't you play?" If I had known I was going to be playing then I would have been prepared for it.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Player, Night, People

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• Not one Wall Street executive has been charged with crimes since the 2008 financial crash.

  Haskell Wexler

  Wall, Financial, Crime

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign they`re not really the establishment. I can`t obviously speak for Senator Bernie Sanders or about Planned Parenthood. But what we do see, and we`ve seen for years in America, is that the establishment, that is, the big banks and the executives and the wealthy do support a lot of non-profits and make the non-profits basically walk to the tune of the establishment.

  Robert Reich

  Rights, Years, America

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I was there in Washington in the `90s. It was pretty bad then. It`s much worse now [in 2015]. And that vicious cycle is you`ve got again big corporations, executives, Wall Street, very wealthy individuals in both parties who are calling the shots.

  Robert Reich

  Wall, Party, Calling The Shots

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I have been tested in many ways, personally, I have beaten breast cancer, I buried a child to addiction. Professionally, you cannot go from being a secretary of nine-person real estate firm to the chief executive of the largest technology company in the world without having been tested over and over and over.

  Carly Fiorina

  Children, Real, Cancer

  "Fiorina: Trump is a Clinton Christmas gift, I'm the lump of coal; US doing enough to defeat ISIS?". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 20, 2015.

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• The Hollywood executives are, like, ‘We’re not racist, we just have to pretend to be racists because we’re capitalists. We want to sell our movies in China (and) they don’t like Kevin Hart.’

  Bill Maher

  Hollywood, Racist, Kevin

  "Bill Maher Whitesplains Hollywood’s Diversity Problem: It’s China’s Fault". deadline.com. January 23, 2016.

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• Many organizations help businesses to stay on top of what's changing or likely to change. It's important for executives and managers who focus on a company's health coverage to stay up-to-speed on what's happening, and it's important for those in the C-suite to understand the changes to factor these new variables into their strategic planning calculus.

  John E. McDonough

  Organization, Focus, Important

  Source: sponsored.bostonglobe.com

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• I got a call from a mutual friend of ours, Charles King, who's also the executive producer. [Steven Caple Jr and I] had a conversation about it. I read it. We kind of finished each other's sentences when it came to the nuances and personality flaws that the character had, and some stereotypes and things we were trying to stay away from. We agreed on that as well. He just kind of allowed me to run rampant with the ideas. As we paced ourselves through, we developed Turquoise.

  Erykah Badu

  Running, Kings, Character

  "Sundance 2016 Interview: 'The Land'". Interview with Hunter Harris, www.rogerebert.com. February 2, 2016.

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• I was selling a piece of my art on eBay from The Escapist, which was an adaptation of The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, and the person who bought it was Alan Heinberg, one of the executive producers of the show and was a huge fan of my work and asked if I'd be interested in maybe being the ghost artist for Seth. It clicked and I could relate to Seth's plight on the show. It became really easy to fill in his shoes, and people really grabbed onto it; they really dug that sort of very minor sub-plot in the show.

  Eric Wight

  Art, Adventure, Ebay

  Source: www.ign.com

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• The most significant impact is what it does in terms of the integrity of the legislative process and the executive process, as opposed to what it does for campaigns. But to remove this unheard of process in the 1990s, where members of Congress are being pushed and shoved every Tuesday to ask for $100,000, $500,000, a million dollars from corporations, unions, and individuals, this was never allowed in American history.

  Russ Feingold

  Integrity, Impact, Tuesday

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. April 30, 2002.

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• There are a lot of things that are said by people in the military, or civilian life, or in the Congress, or in the Executive Branch, that are their views. And that's the way we live. We're a free people. And that's the wonderful thing about our country.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, Military, Views

  "Idol Talk". www.motherjones.com. October 22, 2003.

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• I have no idea why she quieted down on the subject. Maybe she was told to. I can imagine that it wasn't a very popular position in the Administration, with her own husband having ordered by executive order the internment. Maybe she was just told: "Look, we're in a war now. Turn off your social conscience."

  William A. Rusher

  Husband, War, Order

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I had two chances to fail [working for Disney]. The first one, they said was "too juvenile." The second one was,they give you general areas to work in. They said, "Set 'My Fair Lady' in ancient Egypt."I came up with this idea about an Egyptian princess, and I gave her, as a sidekick, a little scarab. I had a telephone meeting with the executive "handling" me, and he said, "I looked over the notes. Very cute. But lose the beetle.Beetles don't talk." Well, how do you answer that? I said, "Excuse me just a moment, I've got a teacup calling me on the other line."

  Charles Busch

  Cute, Princess, Ideas

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Things get better when Joy hears about a televised way to sell products and makes a connection with QVC. She convinces an executive there, played by Bradley Cooper, to let her appear as herself.

  Kenneth Turan

  Joy, Get Better, Connections

  "'Joy' Sinks Into A Morass As Its Protagonist Faces Irritating Obstacles". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 25, 2015.

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• Goldman Sachs was one of those companies whose illegal activity helped destroy our economy and ruin the lives of millions of Americans. But this is what a rigged economy and a corrupt campaign finance system and a broken criminal justice is about. These guys are so powerful that not one of the executives on Wall Street has been charged with anything after paying, in this case of Goldman Sachs, a $5 billion fine.

  Bernie Sanders

  Powerful, Wall, Illegal Activities

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

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• Kid gets caught with marijuana, that kid has a police record. A Wall Street executive destroys the economy, $5 billion settlement with the government, no criminal record. That is what power is about. That is what corruption is about. And that is what has to change in the United States of America.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Kids, Marijuana

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

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• [Make a sitcom] was really the idea of Executive Producer Joe Roth who owned the property over at Revolution Studios and said he was thinking about taking it to TV. And after he said that he already had [writer/director] Ali Leroi on board, and that he was going after Terry Crews, to me it was a no-brainer. I said, "Let's put this together!"

  Ice Cube

  Thinking, Ideas, Together

  "Chilling with Ice". Interview with Kam Williams, pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• Wall Street can never be allowed to threaten main street again. No bank can be too big to fail, no executive too powerful to jail.

  Hillary Clinton

  Wall, Powerful, Jail

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Everybody is looking for a hit single but what the artists really need is an executive producer to help put better albums out.

  Rahki

  Artist, Albums, Needs

  Interview with Brian Hughes Kasoro, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2011.

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• In my head, the 5 issues of A Spoon Too Short comprise one novel: a 100 page graphic novel sequel to Douglas' two Dirk books, taking some of the ideas he was working on before he died, and a whole bunch of new stuff from me and a little from Max Landis (who is the Executive Producer on the book as well as writing the forthcoming TV series).

  Arvind Ethan David

  Book, Writing, Issues

  Source: comicsbulletin.com

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• But we did see the process develop. I remember going to the Rocket Pictures base and they had something like 40 people there, drawing. They didn't know what the characters looked like yet and I remember on the walls seeing 30 or 40 different versions of Juliet. So, it was then that I realised that someone's got to come in and make some really executive decisions.

  Matt Lucas

  Wall, Character, Drawing

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I was an executive at Columbia Pictures for ten years. I was doing great. My career was on the upswing. But, right then, was when I said I gotta quit. I gotta start my own company. I gotta be on the other side of it because I felt the strong call on my life - to tell stories that, on the face of it, might not look like a commercial movie.

  DeVon Franklin

  Strong, Years, Careers

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• North Carolina precinct chairman and GOP executive committee member Don Yelton thinks his state's new voting restrictions are just fine.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Thinking, Voting, North Carolina

  "Aasif Mandvi On Life As A 'No Land's Man' And Impressing Jon Stewart". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2014.

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• When you look at "American Crime" and you have the character Terri LaCroix is a pharmaceutical executive - why does that character always have to be white?

  Regina King

  Character, White, Doe

  "For Actress Regina King, A Childhood Gig Launched A Career In Hollywood". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 21, 2016.

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