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In truth, government has been good to Wall Street and big business.


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As an investor, what we're not looking for is 'oh this is a cool app,' it's 'is this something that can become a big business?' You need to find those that can become real businesses.
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I suppose the White House thinks it's doing what Big Business wants, but it will lead to vastly increased taxes, because all these guest workers are to be allowed to bring their children.
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To some extent, we've always had an admiration for extroversion in our culture. But the extrovert ideal really came to play at the turn of the 20th century when we had the rise of big business.
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The fiesta of soccer, a feast for the legs that play and the eyes that watch, is much more than a big business run by overlords from Switzerland. The most popular sport in the world wants to serve the people who embrace it.
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Arranged marriages are big business in the U.K. Second- and third-generation immigrant families, with no extended family structure, limited networks and religious restrictions on acceptable ways to meet future spouses, are turning to external matchmakers for help.
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It is a world of extremes, which can be characterised most clearly in terms of exclusion. That means political exclusion, whereby the rights of citizens are marginalised by the interests of big business: George W Bush's environmental policy, for example, is clearly formulated in the interests of U.S. energy companies.
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I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously.
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Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.


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I'd love to do situation comedy - it's the best job in show business.


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I am a big comedy fan, having been in 'Coupling.'


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I have a pretty big fund-raising heart.


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When you're the mom in a big family comedy, you have to get your personality when you can.


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I remember 'Def Comedy Jam' being a big deal and kids talking about it in school, but it was never, 'I want to do that.'
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You know, there's a big lie in this business. The lie is that it's okay to go out in flames. But that doesn't do anybody much good. I may be wrong, but I think Hendrix was trying to come around.
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I'm a big Tom Hardy fan. He dresses pretty stylish, right?


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Not after the big bust in '92, there's no big drug lifestyle anymore. I can't talk about it. Pretty ugly.
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All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.


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I have a big problem with people who glamorize dumbness and demonize education and intellect. And I'm giving a pretty good description of Sarah Palin right now.
Aaron Sorkin