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The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations.

Robert Caro

Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.

Victoria Moran

Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you.

Alexander Cockburn

Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry.

Arthur Levitt

There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.

Billie Holiday

Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.

Carter G. Woodson

In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: consumer spending, business investment and exports and trade.

Evan Davis

Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.

James Buchan

Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and business of panic and helplessness.

James Buchan

In the business world, bad news is usually good news - for somebody else.

James Surowiecki

Nobody forces you to work at Wal-Mart. Start your own business! Sell something to Wal-Mart!

Kevin O'Leary

For whatever reason somebody can be convinced to buy a PC, it opens up a whole new market for all of us in the software business.

Kevin O'Leary

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.

Lewis H. Lapham

Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately, they celebrate the absolute mystery of otherness.

Lynne Truss

Publishing is a business of relationships. The relationships you make at one house can carry over to another.

Lisa Unger

There's no job in show business that's harder than any other job outside show business.

Penn Jillette

Social networking platforms like Facebook and Twitter should be urged to adhere to business practices that maximize the safety of activists using their platforms.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Clearly Google is searching for a way to do business in China that avoids them sending someone to jail over an e-mail.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

Ambrose Bierce

I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.

Aung San Suu Kyi