Industry Quotes - Page 35

• The film industry is like Anne Robinsonalways on the look-out for a new face

  Jack Dee

  Looks, Faces, Film

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• The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Simple, Ideas, White

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• The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry.

  John L. Lewis

  Home, Men, Steel

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

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• I'm very new to the industry. I'm not on the Billboard 200 and that is alarming to me. But when I sat down with my management they said it's not a big deal and that it happens all the time.

  Justin Guarini

  Management, Bigs, Said

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• Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.

  Aaron Levie

  Moving, Software

  Twitter post from Oct 09, 2013

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• I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck. A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.

  Joseph Addison

  Hard Work, Character, Men

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• If youve got an industry where youve got massive investment, it doesnt matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose the money on that industry.

  Arthur Scargill

  Alternatives, Matter, Investment

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• The quality of our journalism will make or break our industry, not the recession.

  Rebekah Brooks

  Quality, Make Or Break, Journalism

  "Only quality journalism can save us, says Sun editor Rebekah Wade" by Stephen Brook, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2009.

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• I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Doe, Entertainment, Entertainment Industry

  "Christopher Isherwood, The Art of Fiction No. 49". Interview with W.I. Scobie, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 1974.

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• It will take a massive effort to move society from corporate domination, in which industry's rights to pollute and damage health and the environment supersede the public's right to live, work, and play in safety. This is a political fight. The science is already there, showing that people's health is at risk. To win, we will need to keep building the movement, networking with one another, planning, strategizing, and moving forward. Our children's futures, and those of their unborn children, are at stake.

  Lois Gibbs

  Children, Work, Moving

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• Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting

  Gavin Newsom

  Art, San Francisco, Tourism

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• The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free.

  John Clellon Holmes

  Path, Ants, Glaciers

  John Clellon Holmes (2015). “Go: A Novel”, p.247, Open Road Media

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• The Grammys make me hate music, and certainly everyone in the ass-licking music industry.

  Trent Reznor

  Hate, Licking, Ass

  "Trent Reznor Slams Grammys With A 'Heartfelt F**k You' After Performance Cut-Off". www.contactmusic.com. January 27, 2014.

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• Before, models had that rock star life and it was all about going to the parties and having that glamorous life, and I think these days, models are more like businesswomen and the whole industry takes it really serious.

  Alessandra Ambrosio

  Stars, Party, Thinking

  "This Week's Model: Alessandra Ambrosio". Interview with Tommye Fitzpatrick, www.wmagazine.com. January 31, 2011.

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• My flow follows sometimes what's going on in the hip-hop industry even though I'm speaking Jamaican patois.

  Sean Paul

  Hip Hop, Flow, Hips

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.

  Marc Andreessen

  Needs, Revolution, Assuming

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• Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not.

  Marc Andreessen

  Years, Valleys, World

  "Barefoot Networks' New Chips Will Transform The Tech Industry" by Cade Metz, www.wired.com. June 14, 2016.

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• More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.

  Marc Andreessen

  Running, Agriculture, Defense

  "Why Software Is Eating The World" by Marc Andreessen, www.wsj.com. August 20, 2011.

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• No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult.

  Marc Andreessen

  Growth, Building, Easy

  "Why Software Is Eating The World" by Marc Andreessen, www.wsj.com. August 20, 2011.

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• More and more major industries are being run on software and delivered as online services—from movies to agriculture to national defense. Many of the winners are Silicon Valley-style entrepreneurial technology companies that are invading and overturning established industry structures. Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not.

  Marc Andreessen

  Running, Technology, Agriculture

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• I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Numbers, World, Spectacular

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2009). “Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure”, p.7, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• The fossil fuel industry will inevitably have to experience major cutbacks and, over the longer term, near-total demise. There is simply no choice in the matter if we believe the research produced by climate scientists. The profits of oil, coal, and natural gas companies will have to yield to the imperative of sustaining life on earth.

  Robert Pollin

  Believe, Yield, Oil

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• The influence of geographic factors diminishes as technology grows. The character and contour of a terrain may offer opportunities for agriculture, mining, or trade, but only the imagination and initiative of leaders, and the hardy industry of followers, can transform the possibilities into fact...Man, not the earth, makes civilization.

  Ariel Durant

  Character, Technology, Opportunity

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• People forgot that industry is not an end in itself, but should be only a means to insure to man his material subsistence and to make accessible to him the blessings of a higher intellectual culture. Where industry is everything and man is nothing begins the realm of a ruthless economic despotism whose workings are no less disastrous than those of any political despotism.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Mean, Blessing, Men

  Rudolf Rocker (2004). “Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice”, p.2, AK Press

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• The Rothschilds, and that class of money-lenders of whom they are the representatives and agents - men who never think of lending a shilling to their next-door neighbors, for purposes of honest industry, unless upon the most ample security, and at the highest rate of interest - stand ready, at all times, to lend money in unlimited amounts to those robbers and murderers, who call themselves governments, to be expended in shooting down those who do not submit quietly to being robbed and enslaved.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, Thinking, Doors

  Lysander Spooner (2013). “No Treason”, p.50, Read Books Ltd

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