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• It feels intensely twisted to see reigning industry queen Jenna Jameson chilling out at the Vivid booth in Jordaches and a latex bustier and to know already that she has a tattoo of a sundered valentine with the tagline Heart Breaker on her right buttock and a tiny hairless ole just left of her anus.

  David Foster Wallace

  Tattoo, Queens, Valentine

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• The holiday is clearly growing in importance for the industry. Halloweens fun, enjoyable and doesn't require a big investment to celebrate. The primary focus is the child and families typically do all they can to make sure the children have fun.

  Richard Hastings

  Children, Fun, Halloween

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• The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not receive this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Religious, Prayer, Real

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• Parliamentary committees are becoming more independent, tactics are becoming more sophisticated, and industries that don't want to be bushwhacked by some damaging legislative amendment will have to spend more time and money watching the Hill.

  John Ibbitson

  Independent, Political, Tactics

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• Nothing is impossible to industry (fortitude).

  Periander

  Good Life, Impossible, Fortitude

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• I consider the domestic virtue of the Americans as the principle source of all their other qualities. It acts as a promoter of industry, as a stimulus to enterprise and as the most powerful restraint of public vice. . . . No government could be established on the same principle as that of the United States with a different code of morals.

  Francis Grund

  Powerful, Government, Liberty

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• ... immediately call on Congress to pass far-reaching industry regulation like the Firearms Safety and Consumer Protection Act ... [which] would give the Treasury Department health and safety authority over the gun industry, and any rational regulator with that authority would ban handguns.

  Josh Sugarmann

  Gun, Safety, Giving

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• Do not put your work off till to-morrow and the day after; for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor one who puts off his work: industry makes work go well, but a man who puts off work is always at hand-grips with ruin.

  Hesiod

  Procrastination, Men, Hands

  Hesiod, Hugh G. Evelyn-White (2006). “Works and Days, Theogony and the Shield of Heracles”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• What I always tell people is... Unless you are so passionate about filmmaking that you would rather live out of your car than not do it, find something else to do as a career and do filmmaking as a hobby. This industry is one of the hardest to break into and be successful. It takes a lot of passion and dedication for it to get anywhere.

  Ryan Connolly

  Movie, Inspiring, Passion

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• It's just economics 101: When it's free to pollute, you get more pollution. But when there's a price to pay, industry will have an incentive to find low-cost carbon solutions.

  Fred Krupp

  Energy, Cost, Incentives

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• Federal laws, including those that made so many people immigrate without documents, gutted the enforcement power of the Department of Labor and created a lower minimum wage for tipped workers than for everybody else, reinforcing the industry’s

  Rinku Sen

  Law, People, Enforcement

  Rinku Sen (2009). “The Accidental American: Immigration and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization: Easyread Large Edition”, p.280, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The movie industry is failing women. And until the industry starts making serious changes, nothing is going to change.

  Manohla Dargis

  Serious, Failing, Movie Industry

  "Women Directors Nearly Absent in 2013 Awards Season" by Robert Abele, variety.com. December 11, 2013.

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• The Houston Contractors Association is proud to endorse Council Member Oliver Pennington for re-election to Houston City Council. Council Member Pennington understands that infrastructure investment is crucial to protect the long-term economic vitality of our community. We strongly support his efforts on behalf of small businesses and the construction industry while demonstrating his commitment to sound management of the city's budget.

  Jeffrey Nielsen

  Commitment, Cities, Construction Industry

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• Commercial interests with their advertising industry do not want people to develop contentment and less greed. Military interests in economic, political, ethnic or nationalist guises, do not want people to develop more tolerance, nonviolence and compassion. And ruling groups in general, in whatever sort of hierarchy do not want the ruled to become too insightful, too independent, too creative on their own, as the danger is that they will become insubordinate, rebellious, and unproductive in their alloted tasks.

  Robert Thurman

  Military, Creativity, Independent

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• Everyone has the ability to be creative. Everyone has the ability to connect one idea with another, to find an idea in another department, organization, or industry, and connect it with another to solve the challenge at hand.

  Elaine Dundon

  Hands, Organization, Ideas

  Elaine DUNDON (2002). “Seeds of Innovation: Cultivating the Synergy That Fosters New Ideas”, p.17, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• Following the rules of your industry will only get you so far.

  Max McKeown

  Thought Provoking, Provoking, Following

  Max Mckeown (2013). “The Strategy Book ePub eBook: How to Think and Act Strategically to Deliver Outstanding Results”, p.76, Pearson UK

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• So-called global warming is just a secret ploy by wacko tree-huggers to make America energy-independent, clean our air & water, improve fuel-efficiency of our vehicles, kickstart 21st century industries, & make our cities safer & more livable. Don't let them get away with it!

  Chip Giller

  Independent, Air, Cities

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• Rappers hate each other, not the labels that got rich,
  Don't care about culture, they only want profit.
  If your album sell slow, bet you'll get dropped quick;
  Q-Tip warned us: the industry's toxic.
  For reference, check out BDP's Sex and Violence.

  Cormega

  Sex, Hate, Rap

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• Consider me the entity within the industry without a history of spitting the epitome of stupidity.

  Talib Kweli

  Rap, Hip Hop, Stupidity

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• Too many people, including the ad industry, believe the future is something that happens and just rolls them over in it's wake.

  Cindy Gallop

  Believe, Creativity, People

  "Cindy Gallop: it's time to rethink the advertising business" by Chris Smith, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2012.

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• This is not an industry in which you curl up in a ball and shy away from the realities. It's a time to scream to the clouds that we're here and we've got great values and great prices. What better time to do that than the Super Bowl?

  Kevin Smith

  Reality, Clouds, Curls

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• The Greeks invented the idea of nemesis to show how any single virtue, stubbornly maintained gradually changes into a destructive vice. Our success, our industry, our habit of work have produced our economic nemesis. Work made modern men great, but now threatens to usurp our souls, to inundate the earth in things and trash, to destroy our capacity to love and wonder.

  Sam Keen

  Love, Men, Ideas

  Sam Keen (2010). “Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man”, p.66, Bantam

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• It is to the real advantage of every producer, every manufacturer and every merchant to cooperate in the improvement of working conditions, because the best customer of American industry is the well-paid worker.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Real, Presidential, Unions

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.504, Best Books on

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• This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious protest. . . . In the eighteenth century, a few dissenting Mennonites and Quakers in America began to call for abolition, as did some freethinkers like Thomas Paine.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Blessed, America

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.171, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The government needs the help of industry. But the reality is companies will balance that against their own commercial interest in a very competitive market.

  Michael Clarke Duncan

  Reality, Government, Balance

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