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• I think that George Lucas' 'Star Wars' films are fantastic. What he's done, which I admire, is he has taken all the money and profit from those films and poured it into developing digital sound and surround sound, which we are using today.

  Peter Jackson

  Stars, War, Taken

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• There are many movies that have done it very badly. The studios have gone for quick profits and audiences are feeling angry. People aren't taking the time and spending the money to do it right. I am.

  Michael Bay

  People, Feelings, Gone

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• We've grown from 18% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry to 23% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry over the last five years. Profits are up over 70%, where the industry profit is up about 35%. Pretty good.

  Steve Ballmer

  Years, Lasts, Economy

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• The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off a cliff, and all the old hands either left or were fired for being too expensive.

  Lee Child

  Hands, Quality, Cliffs

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• Tobacco is the only industry that produces products to make huge profits and at the same time damage the health and kill their consumers.

  Margaret Chan

  Damage, Tobacco Industry, Produce

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• Five years of Republicans' failed energy policies have resulted in Americans paying twice as much at the pump as they did in 2001, while big oil companies make triple the profits.

  Russ Carnahan

  Years, Oil, Energy

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• Sometimes earning awards doesn't matter as much as earning revenue or profit, or having a good response from the audience. No matter how many awards you win, if you can't earn any profit from your movie, if the audience doesn't like it, then it doesn't matter how many awards you get.

  Stephen Chow

  Winning, Awards, Matter

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. April 20, 2005.

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• The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.

  Vince Cable

  Real, Recovery, Long

  "George Osborne's campaign against Ed Balls hit by fresh Libor revelation" by Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2012.

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• I actually run a non-profit where one of the main objectives is to branch out and get a new audience for the theater. Just because the writing is so good and nothing is more effective than seeing something live and happening right in front of your face, so I definitely want to continue to pursue that.

  Adam Driver

  Running, Writing, Branches

  "The GQA: Adam Driver". Interview with Daniel Riley, www.gq.com. November 28, 2012.

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• There are growing concerns that oil companies are making too much in profits at the expense of consumers.

  Pete Domenici

  Oil, Growing, Too Much

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• Without a unified political climate of opinion, there is little or no political profit in doing the right thing.

  William A. Dembski

  Political, Climate, Littles

  "Peerless: A Radically Decentralized Digital Monetary Framework". billdembski.com. November 23, 2016.

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• People are motivated by the desires for privilege, for power, for profit. Those are not shocking revelations. Anyone who's had any experience in life knows these things.

  Norman Finkelstein

  People, Desire, Privilege

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• So if you want to know how Exxon Mobil can make $10 billion profit in 90 days, just look around. The whole world was built for them.

  Jeff Goodell

  Looks, World, Want

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• Businesses can lead with their values and make money, too. You don't have to simply be purely profit-driven. You can integrate social and environmental concerns into a business, be a caring business, be a generous business and still do very well financially.

  Jerry Greenfield

  Caring, Environmental, Making Money

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• We think there is a parallel between federal involvement in education and the decline in profit over recent years.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Thinking, Years

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• The increasing technicality of the terminology employed is also a serious difficulty. It has become necessary to learn an extensive vocabulary before a book in even a limited department of science can be consulted with much profit. This change, of course, has its advantages for the initiated, in securing precision and concisement of statement; but it tends to narrow the field in which an investigator can labour, and it cannot fail to become, in the future, a serious impediment to wide inductive generalisations.

  Thomas George Bonney

  Book, Science, Vocabulary

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• Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with profit, the former with pleasure. In the coming age, art will fashion our entertainment out of new means of productivity in ways that will simultaneously enhance our profit and maximize our pleasure.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Fashion, Art, Mean

  "A Short Organum for the Theatre". Book by Bertolt Brecht, 1949.

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• ...free enterprise, [is] a term that refers, in practice, to a system of public subsidy and private profit, with massive government intervention in the economy to maintain a welfare state for the rich.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Practice, Political

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “How the World Works”, p.64, Soft Skull Press

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• The National Bank at profit sells road maps for the soul.

  Bob Dylan

  Soul, Maps, Politics

  Song: Tombstone Blues, Album: Highway 61 Revisited, 1965

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• My grandmother was the daughter of pioneers, as was my grandfather, and they were farmers. And they worked the land, and there is a grounded value system that becomes inherent in knowing what's real and what's powerful. And understanding the material nature of not only man, but beasts and profit and all of those things that you fight for.

  Brenda Strong

  Daughter, Powerful, Real

  "'Dallas' Star Brenda Strong Talks Ann Ewing and the Resilience of Larry Hagman". Interview with Jethro Nededog, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 6, 2011.

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• There is no profit in deceit. An honest man knows revenge is not sweet.

  Robert Palmer

  Sweet, Revenge, Men

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• The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Art, Britain, Establishment

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• We know that BP cuts safety corners, takes risks, and is unconcerned about anything other than their own profit.

  Robert Greenwald

  Cutting, Safety, Risk

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

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• Kickstarter isn't a profit center, it's an organizer and an instigator.

  Seth Godin

  Instigators, Kickstarter, Organizer

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• The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.

  Todd Gitlin

  Desire, Moguls, Driven

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