Industry Quotes - Page 6

• President Obama made the right choice, over 1 million Americans are still working today. The American auto industry is not just surviving. It is thriving. Where Mitt Romney was willing to turn his back on Akron, Dayton, and Toledo, Ohio, the president said, "I've got your back''.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Ohio, Choices, President

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

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• Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, Japan, Europe

  Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.

  Arthur Erickson

  Dream, Artist, California

  Arthur Erickson's Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, America, Goal

  Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, Choices, Research

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• When you print money, the money does not flow evenly into the economic system. It stays essentially in the financial service industry and among people that have access to these funds, mostly well-to-do people. It does not go to the worker.

  Marc Faber

  People, Flow, Doe

  "Marc Faber: Not Even Gold Will Save You From What Is Coming" by Matthew Boesler, www.businessinsider.com. March 27, 2013.

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• I think initially, the record industry struggled a lot with digital media because there are a lot of aspects to it that can potentially destroy our industry.

  Paloma Faith

  Thinking, Media, Records

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• It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.

  Paul Farmer

  Organization, Imagination, Adequate

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• I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.

  Vera Farmiga

  Years, Age, Twists

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• Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Doctors, Goal, Today

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• I'm more than an actor. I'm an icon, an industry.

  Corey Feldman

  Icons, Actors

  Corey Feldman (2013). “Coreyography: A Memoir”, p.247, Macmillan

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• When people are feeling insecure about their jobs and there are cuts to be made, it's hard to put up an argument that the film industry needs funding.

  Julian Fellowes

  Jobs, Cutting, Insecure

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• Whether it's acting, directing or writing, I want to be involved in the film industry for the rest of my life.

  Tom Felton

  Writing, Acting, Want

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

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• 360 deals are the new things of the industry. It's not about selling records; it's about selling T-shirts, getting a piece of your publishing, getting a piece of your touring, and all these other kind of properties.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Pieces, Records, Kind

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• Being in the industry, I've seen many situations where someone will get the call from the network where they say 'You guys have 5 episodes to wrap it up.' Then all your long-term story arcs gotta get wrapped up in five episodes because that's how many episodes you got left. I would hate to see that happen to 'Castle'.

  Nathan Fillion

  Hate, Long, Guy

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• You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.

  Nathan Fillion

  Art, Believe, Tv Shows

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. March 9, 2009.

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• I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.

  Carly Fiorina

  Thinking, Today, Dots

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• There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Use, Antibiotics, Health Professionals

  "Eating animals is making us sick" by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.cnn.com. October 28, 2009.

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• I wanted to be some kind of captain of industry. Then I wanted to be in advertising, and then I wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

  Ken Follett

  Captains, Kind, Advertising

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• But as an adult working in the fashion industry, I struggle with materialism. And I'm one of the least materialistic people that exist, because material possessions don't mean much to me. They're beautiful, I enjoy them, they can enhance your life to a certain degree, but they're ultimately not important.

  Tom Ford

  Beautiful, Fashion, Struggle

  Interview with John Currin, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 31, 2011.

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• When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my writing life and that people would see me not as an author but as an actor starting to write.

  James Franco

  Writing, Careers, People

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• For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

  Thomas Frank

  Today, Students, Desperate

  John Summers, Chris Lehmann, Thomas Frank (2014). “No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler”, p.13, MIT Press

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• We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's?

  Thomas Frank

  Wall, Government, Opinion Leaders

  "Bipartisanship Is a Silly Beltway Obsession" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2009.

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• In the subprime mortgage industry, bankers handed out iffy loans like candy at a parade because such loans meant revenue and, hence, bonuses for executives in the here-and-now.

  Thomas Frank

  Bankers, Bonus, Mortgage

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• Our laws governing lobbying and campaign contributions have struck the right balance between the wishes of the people and those of private industry, so why are we so quick to doubt that the same great results can be achieved by putting the government's justice-dealing branch on the same market-based course?

  Thomas Frank

  Government, Law, People

  "Lock ‘em Up — Jailing Kids is a Proud American Tradition" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2009.

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