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That is the godawful thing about television today. Performers don't have any place to hit and miss. You're either in or you're out; you don't have a chance to become good at your craft. If you make three pictures in a row and they don't go over, you're out of the business.

Donald O'Connor

Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.

Carroll O'Connor

One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.

Carroll O'Connor

Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.

Carroll O'Connor

I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.

Carroll O'Connor

What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the same - regular people doing their thing and separating the music from the business.

Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.

Olusegun Obasanjo

It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.

Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.

A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.

CNN canceled all the shows I was on. They're going in a different direction, but that's their privilege. They own the business.

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

Lord Northcliffe

Four or five frigates will do the business without any military force.

The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.

The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.