Industry Quotes - Page 10

• If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Struggle, Cutting

  33 Copy quote

• The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves.

  John L. Lewis

  Tired, Rights, Agony

  Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

  56 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization.

  John L. Lewis

  Agreement, Organization, Steel

  Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• I believe I could have had a career in the music industry without 'X Factor,' but it was an amazing platform that propelled me to where I am now.

  Leona Lewis

  Believe, Careers, Platforms

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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Music TV in the U.K. is disappearing. 'Top Of The Pops,' 'CD:UK' and shows like that have gone, and it's bringing down the music industry. We should do as much as we can to keep our music TV and producers need to be more willing to accommodate live music.

  Leona Lewis

  Cds, Tvs, Needs

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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are a lot of Democrats that tell me that they are just distressed over what Obama has done to the health care industry and to jobs. They are afraid to say anything about it because of recriminations, because this regime fights back.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Jobs, Fighting, Say Anything

  FaceBook post by Rush Limbaugh from Aug 26, 2013

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.

  Laura Linney

  Silence, Entertainment, Terrified

  7 Copy quote

• Because I'm so much in the spotlight, people lose sight of why I'm in the industry. In fact, I'm doing all this because I love to act. I love to perform, to sing.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Sight, People, Spotlight

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

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories.

  David Lynch

  Cities, Towns, Factories

  4 Copy quote

• The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work; especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea.

  David Lynch

  Crazy, Artist, Should Have

  "David Lynch Interviews – Uncut". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. March 10, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you don't know the right people or have the right connections, you may never be discovered. With 'Opening Act,' we are democratizing a notoriously impossible process, pulling back the curtains on a consistently fascinating industry, and affording aspiring artists the chance of a lifetime.

  Nigel Lythgoe

  Artist, People, Connections

  4 Copy quote

• I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that the record industry is an insidious affair. It's this terrible collision between art and commerce, and it will always be that way.

  Ian MacKaye

  Art, Mind, Records

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. May 5, 1999.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

  James Madison

  Numbers, People, Religion

  James Madison (1819). “The Writings of James Madison: 1808-1819”, p.432

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Agriculture, Goal, Democracy

  9 Copy quote

• Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation and consensus.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Collaboration, Cooperation, Impossible

  12 Copy quote

• Consumers desiring a better world have already achieved some successes in this regard, helping to transform several industries from the ground up.

  Simon Mainwaring

  World, Helping, Consumers

  Simon Mainwaring (2011). “We First: How Brands and Consumers Use Social Media to Build a Better World”, p.48, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Often motivated by a desire to maintain the existing status quo, sloth almost cost the U.S. its auto industry, as it refused for decades to build fuel-efficient cars to compete with Japanese, Korean and European imports.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Maintaining The Status Quo, Car, Sloth

  "Capitalism’s Seven Debtly Sins" by Simon Mainwaring, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2011.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady; I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude.

  Imelda Marcos

  Gratitude, Shoes, Great Love

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

  56 Copy quote

  Show source

• Well, today the Grammys is much much better than the Oscars. I think the differences in the shows are that the Grammys are much wilder. The Oscars is much more people in the industry. And people dress wilder, I think, at the Grammys.

  Steve Martin

  Thinking, Differences, People

  4 Copy quote

• The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.

  Karl Marx

  Civilization, Environmental, Done

  Karl Marx, David Fernbach (1981). “Capital: a critique of political economy”

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.

  Jackie Mason

  Death, Suicide, Support

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

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• I definitely feel a difference about my place in the industry. I feel like I have some longevity now.

  Martina McBride

  Differences, Longevity, Feels

  6 Copy quote

• I think the pop industry is still a young man's game.

  Paul McCartney

  Men, Thinking, Games

  4 Copy quote

• Personally, I think that for example the chemical directive in its present form does too much damage to the chemical industry - especially the medium sized businesses - and will hurt our worldwide competitiveness.

  Angela Merkel

  Hurt, Thinking, Example

  Interview with Bertrand Benoit and Andrew Gowers, www.ft.com. July 20, 2005.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I think about old Hollywood and the glamour of those days, women like Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, and Audrey Hepburn were not dressing the way some girls dress today. There was a certain mystery about them, and I feel like that's gone in our industry.

  Aly Michalka

  Girl, Thinking, Grace

  "Meet 'Hellcats' Stars Ashley Tisdale & Aly Michalka". Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. September 2, 2010.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source