Quotes of: Show-business Keyword

That's one of the problems with making music your business, it becomes a business. You're no longer just this kid who is a fan and going to see every show. I've been in a bar every night for the last 15 years. Going to see bands for me is work.

Mojo Nixon

When there is no one to teach you life will show you. All you have to do is pay attention. People unfortunately rarely take the time to sit back and evaluate. Their too busy being busy.

Therone Shellman

Busy is good because it shows you’re alive.

Present Perfect

I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses.

Nell Carter

Since doing the show I've been so busy that I've not really had time to mope.

Kim Cattrall

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

We do not measure a culture based on its output of undisguised trivialities, but what it claims as significant.

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcoticized by technological diversions

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

In every tool we create, an idea is embedded that goes beyond the function of the thing itself.

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an...

Hal Sparks

If you're watching a film on your television, is it no longer a film because you're not watching it in a theatre? If you watch a TV show on your iPad, is it no longer a TV show? The device and the length are irrelevant; the labels are useless, except...

Kevin Spacey

Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.

Martin Mull

I'll try anything. What are they gonna do, kick me out of show business?

Penny Marshall

My second business would have succeeded but for competitors' jealousy. I was selling motorbike gear cheap, but the people I was undercutting complained to the manufacturer and cut off my supply. It showed me how corrupt business can be. When I sold p...

John Caudwell

You know, out-of-touch liberals like Barack Obama say they want a strong economy, but in everything they do, they show they don't like business very much. But the economy, of course, is simply the product of all the businesses of the nation added tog...

Mitt Romney

People see me on the 'Daily Show' or 'About a Boy'. But the reality is that I only got into this business to do standup comedy.

Al Madrigal

Research conducted throughout the world shows gender balance in top positions contributes to improved competitiveness and better business performance.

Beth Brooke

If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.

Brent Spiner

It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business.

Donny Osmond

There are some people in show business who are proud of the number of marriages they've had.

Gerry Anderson