Moguls Quotes - Page 2

• My agent at the time, Mike Medavoy, before he became a movie mogul, called me up and said, how about a movie with you and Peter Boyle and Marty Feldman? And I said, well, what makes you think of that? He said because I now handle you and Peter Marty.

  Gene Wilder

  Thinking, Make You Think, Agents

  Source: keranews.org

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• Hollywood always had a streak of the totalitarian in just about everything it did. The old moguls were essentially hard-fisted authoritarians who had created a system of linked dictatorships to control the creative people. We were supposed to be the children; mad, tempestuous, brilliant, talented, not terribly smart children.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Children, Smart, People

  Shirley MacLaine (1975). “You Can Get There From here”

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• Like skiing with bent knees makes the moguls fun, you need to take risks, get out of your comfort zone, have a positive attitude, and enjoy the bumps in the road. I like to say that if things aren’t to your liking, change your liking.

  Rick Steves

  Fun, Attitude, Risk

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• This one is for the boys in the polos Entrepreneur niggas & the moguls

  Nicki Minaj

  Flirty, Boys, Entrepreneur

  Song: Super Bass Original

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• The current moguls understand that true media power lies not in firing up our outrage, as Hearst did, but in befuddling it or tranquilizing it with new toys. The idea is to render us passive so that they can exercise their power to sell us a bunch of stuff we mostly don't need and mostly don't want.

  Richard Schickel

  Lying, Exercise, Media

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• The health establishment is a blood brotherhood known by the company it keeps, and these moguls need no oath or ritual as they work hand in glove with and for each other - if medicine benefits in the process, all to the good.

  Edgar Berman

  Dark, Medicine, Blood

  Edgar Berman (1976). “The solid gold stethoscope”

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• A handful of men working within the Zen sect of Buddhism created gardens in fifteenth-century Japan which were, and still are, far more than merely an aesthetic expression. And what is left of the earlier Mogul gardens in India suggests that their makers were acquainted with what lay behind the flowering of the Sufi movement in High Asia and so sought to add further dimensions to their garden scenes.

  Russell Page

  Buddhism, Men, Garden

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• [E]very time you think the entertainment moguls have hit rock bottom, they reach for the jackhammer and rat-a-tat-tat a little deeper.

  Ellen Goodman

  Thinking, Rocks, Entertainment

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• I'm looking to be the next comedy mogul.

  J. B. Smoove

  Next, Comedy

  Source: www.askmen.com

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• Andrew Breitbart, self-described media mogul, had several screws loose or missing and was the grinning bomb-thrower of the radical right. He was the attack dog kept on a tight leash and brought out on special occasions to hiss and to menace.

  Bill Ayers

  Dog, Self, Media

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• We've seen that there are a lot of people out there - teenagers in Topeka, housewives in Long Island, millionaire Internet start-up moguls - that all want to connect with each other about what it is to be human.

  Rainn Wilson

  Teenager, Islands, Long

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• Unnamed entertainment industry moguls are now telling the New York Times that they intend never to work with Mel Gibson again. After all, how dare Mel Gibson challenge the public by producing a film that spurs public discussion, that pushes the envelope, that takes an old story to a new level. How dare Mel Gibson follow his own passion as a filmmaker. How dare he make $20 million on the opening day box office!

  Laura Ingraham

  New York, Passion, Office

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• Nellie's brow furrowed. "The great Mr. Hip-Hop Mogul standing in line with the common peasants? How do you figure that?" Dan grinned. "I'm starting to dig this 'no cars' thing. It's a great equalizer.

  Gordon Korman

  Car, Hip Hop, Lines

  Gordon Korman (2011). “The 39 Clues #2: One False Note”, p.94, Scholastic Inc.

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• I tried [being a mogul]. It bores me. I don't really want to produce other people's movies. Because they're either grown-up filmmakers like Steven Soderbergh or Kathryn Bigelow that didn't really need me - and I've produced both of them. It's fun to sit around with them and be collegial, but they don't need me. They can make the film without me. I make my own stuff. There are tons and tons of other things I'm interested in that have nothing to do with movies or are documentary projects.

  James Cameron

  Fun, People, Needs

  "James Cameron: The ‘Avatar’ sequel will dive into the oceans of Pandora". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, herocomplex.latimes.com. April 20, 2010.

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• Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it. Some spoil them when they are young, and then quarrel with them when they are grown up, for having been spoiled; some love them like mothers, and attend only to the bodily health and strength of the hopes of their family, solemnize his birthday, and rejoice, like the subjects of the Great Mogul, at the increase of his bulk: while others, minding, as they think, only essentials, take pains and pleasure to see in their heir, all their favourite weaknesses and imperfections.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Love, Family, Mother

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.459

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• I’m trying to be the Jay-Z of comedy one day. I don’t know if there’s any comedy moguls out there, but I would love to be the first comedy mogul.

  J. B. Smoove

  Trying, One Day, Firsts

  "J.B. Smoove Talks New Series ‘Bent,’ Plan To Become A Comedy Mogul". Interview with Brennan Williams, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2012.

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• Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.

  Camille Paglia

  Photography, Hollywood, Genius

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• I wanna produce, write, and direct my own projects, and eventually fund them. I wanna be a mogul.

  Kevin Hart

  Writing, Projects, Produce

  "Kevin Hart: the Realist Husband of Hollywood". Interview with Amos Barshad, www.gq.com. July 2, 2013.

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• I am a freestyle mogul skier who, on February 13, became the first American to win a gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

  Hannah Kearney

  Winning, Gold, Firsts

  "Exclusive: Gold Medal Winner Hannah Kearney On Her Olympic Experience" by Hannah Kearney, www.mtv.com. March 1, 2010.

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