Industry Quotes - Page 5

• We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to graze cattle or erect shopping malls and condos; planting groves of a few familiar trees that homeowners and industries prefer.

  Diane Ackerman

  Eugenics, Shopping, Tree

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• Why isn't the movie industry forced to open its shooting locations to an organization that is there to advocate for animal actors? The industry isn't allowed to pick and choose which movies using young children it will or won't allow to be monitored. The vulnerable should be protected.

  Elayne Boosler

  Children, Animal, Organization

  "Yes, Animals Were Harmed in the Making of This Motion Picture" by Elayne Boosler, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2012.

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• I know a lot about writing, but I don't know much about how other industries work. I've tried to use my naivety to my advantage.

  Alain de Botton

  Writing, Use, Naivety

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• I don't like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don't like factory farming. I'm not an advocate for the meat industry.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Pain, Animal, Meat Industry

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

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• The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Vitality, Audacity, Vigor

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• And you know, I've had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure those industries will never be the same again, because Virgin went in and took them on.

  Richard Branson

  Fun, Different, Virgins

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• The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.

  Richard Branson

  Success, Business, Real

  Richard Branson (2005). “Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography”, Virgin Pub

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• We, we - as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.

  Richard Branson

  Thinking, Results, Attacking

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• So I quit my job and went to the New England Culinary Institute for the full two years and worked in the restaurant industry after that until finally I thought I had a grasp on what I needed to do what I do.

  Alton Brown

  Jobs, Years, Two

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• There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do.

  Bill Bryson

  Government, Years, America

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• Europe and North America, we are told, are less dependent on energy-intensive heavy industry than in the 1960s and 1970s. It seems we squeeze more GDP out of a barrel of oil than in those benighted days.

  James Buchan

  Europe, Oil, Gdp

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• There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in the throes of liquidation.

  James Buchan

  Birthday, Running, Average

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• There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don't last, it's just product fed to you by the industry.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Missing You, Song, Today

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• I mean, most actresses can't host and most hostesses can't act, and that's the general rule in the industry.

  Brooke Burke

  Mean, Actresses, Host

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• Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

  Edmund Burke

  Sacrifice, Government, Political

  Speech to electors of Bristol, 3 Nov. 1774

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• Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter.

  Carter Burwell

  Matter, Towns, Los Angeles

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• The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

  David Byrne

  Marijuana, Smoking, Trying

  "Shock pictures to scare smokers" by David Gow, James Meikle, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2004.

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• Film acting is one of the only industries where you're criticized for working hard. In any other industry, it's considered a quality and something to behold.

  Nicolas Cage

  Quality, Acting, Film

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

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• The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer.

  James Cameron

  People, Answers, Saying No

  James Cameron, Brent Dunham (2012). “James Cameron: Interviews”, p.47, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information.

  Peter Drucker

  Information, Economy, Born

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• The Web is fascinating and transformative, but it's an easy, flashy, get-rich-quick option to the hard graft of proper industry.

  James Dyson

  Rich, Easy, Flashy

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• Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such freedom.

  Roger Ebert

  Running, Directors, May

  Interview With Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. October 4, 2011.

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• The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a difficult time adjusting to the digital age.

  Jennifer Egan

  Interesting, Age, Adjusting

  "Conversation: Author Jennifer Egan". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. July 1, 2010.

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• I want to go to Sierra Leone with something - whether it's some sort of contribution to healthcare, or to the entertainment industry. My cousin is a nurse; we are talking about opening a clinic.

  Idris Elba

  Cousin, Talking, Nurse

  "The god in Idris Elba". Interview with Afua Hirsch, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2011.

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• When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Jobs, War, Fall

  Rahm Emanuel's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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