Industry Quotes - Page 8

• The giant industries that are polluting our planet as well as violating human rights worldwide are the ones nearest and dearest to the hearts of American politicians.

  Woody Harrelson

  Heart, Rights, Giants

  "I'm an American tired of American lies" by Woody Harrelson, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2002.

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• If you don't have any ties to the music industry, you just love 'American Idol,' you can sit there and do exactly what you do in your living room, which is stare at them and judge them.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Idols, Ties, Judging

  "Neil Patrick Harris 'shattered dreams' on 'Idol'" by Whitney Pastorek, www.today.com. August 29, 2009.

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• It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion.

  Sam Harris

  Children, Technology, Thinking

  "A New Year’s Resolution for the Rich" by Sam Harris, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 29, 2010.

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• It's rare to have even half-meaningful conversations in the film industry.

  Amber Heard

  Meaningful, Half, Film

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• Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.

  Martin Heidegger

  Country, Agriculture, Essence

  "The Question Concerning Technology". Book by Martin Heidegger, 1954.

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• I do think that even with entertainment and telling stories, people in the entertainment industry have such a beautiful position in the world to speak about things that they're passionate about in a way that can grab people more than just sitting and telling someone about something, because you can show it visually.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Beautiful, Thinking, People

  "Jennifer Love Hewitt Interview LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 28, 2010.

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• We have to be very careful about what we say out there to the masses in the entertainment industry because people are listening to every word, and they take it to heart.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Heart, People, Listening

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• As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the industry, that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes, the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society.

  Lauryn Hill

  Inspiring, Mean, Artist

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We think we have to work because the advertising industry has elevated wants into needs. The newspapers and the television batter us incessantly with the latest "must-haves", whether that's shoes, videogames or patio heaters. As a result, mums think they "have" to work at Tesco in order to buy expensive trainers.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Thinking, Order, Shoes

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

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• I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Strong Women, Intelligent, Female

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• Avarice, the spur of industry.

  David Hume

  Spurs, Avarice

  'Essays' (1741-2) 'Of Civil Liberty'

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• I find aspects of the industry tedious and hard to manage.

  Charlie Hunnam

  Aspect, Tedious, Hard

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• The truth of the matter is the real industry is in LA and the cream of the talent is there.

  Charlie Hunnam

  Real, Matter, Talent

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• There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

  Aldous Huxley

  Talent, Virtue, Substitutes

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• No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.

  Thomas Huxley

  Life, Mother, Method

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.5, Library of Alexandria

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• Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk.

  Jesse Jackson

  Government, America, Risk

  Interview With Douglas Foster, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2000.

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• Our education system was developed for an industrial era where we could teach certain skills to our children and they were able to use these skills for the rest of their lives working productively in an industry.

  Naveen Jain

  Children, Skills, Use

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• A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way”, p.65, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious environmental problems. The meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes and ships in the world.

  Joan Jett

  Meat Industry, Car, Environmental

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• Amazingly, I've been sort of an anomaly in the music industry. I feel like I've been able to exist as kind of a throwback artist.

  Jewel

  Artist, Anomalies, Able

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• The shell fishing industry represents a major part of Louisiana's economy.

  Bobby Jindal

  Fishing, Louisiana, Shells

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• A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, People, Perspective

  "Steve Jobs: The next insanely great thing". Interview with Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. February 1, 1996.

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• Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

  Steve Jobs

  Money, Business, Apples

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• It's not about charisma and personality, it's about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for and what its potential is to contribute to the industry.

  Steve Jobs

  Apples, People, Personality

  "Steve Jobs: `There's Sanity Returning'". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. May 25, 1998.

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• The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.

  Steve Jobs

  Dark, Years, Best Job

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.39, Prabhat Prakashan

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