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You respect all of these people that you know in the business as actors. And they sort of turn around and say, we really like your work. It's a nice acknowledgment.
– Lucy Liu
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You learn timing on the road. You learn structure and how to read an audience. You learn so much about the business of laughter that you can't learn on a set, because it's all on you. Sometimes you bomb, and you know not to tell that joke again... You just hope people find the humor in the awkwardness.
– Marlon Wayans
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You know, the funny thing about Lorne and that show is that, you can go over one million things, but in a business of bean counters, he still likes to laugh at small things and creates a show around it.
– Colin Quinn
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You know, I lose patience really easily I'd rather shop in the grocery store than in the department store. I can pick an apple like nobody's business.
– Gail Simmons
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You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other.
– Gary Vaynerchuk
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Women are smart in business and dumb in love. They won't date outside their zip code, let alone outside the city. They are city snobs.
– Patti Stanger
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With the other fellow actors who have gone astray, I think it's sad that society wants to label the business as doing this to people. It's really not true.
– Tina Yothers
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Why - because as a oil and gas small business owner - I know if someone is not doing their job, they should not get paid. Again leadership by example.
– Jeff Landry
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While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught.
– Pat Brown
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When you're growing up, it's always nice to have someone you can relate and look up to. I'm proud of how I conduct my business and how I have accomplished all that I have accomplished, and hope that I can be a positive influence on not only the Mexican community but also young boxers and people all around the world.
– Victor Ortiz
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When you're a child, no matter if you're doing show business or sports or school or anything, you just want to make the adults happy.
– Anna Chlumsky
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When political and business leaders tell the public - any public - 'We don't trust you to make the right decision' - they prejudice that electorate against the very proposals they want it to accept and undermine public confidence in themselves.
– Preston Manning
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When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills.
– Daniel Goleman
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When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age.
– Tim McGraw
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When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into.
– Terri Windling
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When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!
– Chuck Norris
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When I get up in the morning I brush my teeth and go about my business, and if I am going anywhere interesting I take my camera along.
– Elliott Erwitt
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When families save, they can get through emergencies like a bad harvest or a medical emergency. But it's more than that. They can also plan for the future, gradually saving up for a small business or for their children's school tuition.
– Jeff Raikes
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What we are trying to do is to create a social business in Bangladesh, a joint venture to create restaurants for common people. Good, healthy food at affordable prices so that people don't have to opt for food that is unhealthy and unhygienic.
– Muhammad Yunus
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Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it.
– Jennifer Garner
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Well, the rollout of new technology always affects how wizards do business.
– Diane Duane
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Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion.
– Robert Redford
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We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.
– Jaron Lanier
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We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements.
– Tony Scott
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We see tremendous excitement from small-business people about the administration and about the attention and commitment that the president has to do things that really make a difference. I think they recognize that health care is one of those. I think they recognize that what we've been doing in the Recovery Act with our loan programs has mattered.
– Karen Mills
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We must advertise to U.S. business that we are there, that our attitude has changed, and that we care. When we are asked to help, we have to perform and provide the right advice.
– Lawrence Eagleburger
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We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
– Yahoo Serious
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We kinda look at this as the second or third chapter of our lives. After college, most people figure out what they want to do with their lives. But we already know what we want to do in the future and that is to continue to further our business goals.
– Mary-Kate Olsen
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We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual and personal responsibility that we can come up, we can pursue our dreams and our aspirations and we won't be blocked by government regulation, by the inability to get a loan as a small business to make our dreams come true.
– Jon Huntsman, Jr.
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We didn't know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent.
– Ruth Handler
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We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business.
– Marcy Kaptur
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We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.
– John O. Brennan
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Warren Spector is amazing, and his team is as good as any in the business. Shame to see all the revenues from their game entangled with all the madness of the Dallas office.
– Mike Wilson
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Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.
– Lewis H. Lapham
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Unfortunately, President Obama's failed policies of new regulations, higher taxes, and Obamacare and his anti-business rhetoric have hit Hispanics especially hard. Big government really hurts those who are trying to make it.
– Marco Rubio
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Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.
– Laura Dern
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Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency, because if you don't become efficient, you don't run a business well, and you are out of business. And I think some of those principles could be applied to leadership in Washington.
– Steve Daines
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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
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Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone's job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop.
– Allen Klein
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This marriage is no one's business but our own.
– Bobby Darin
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This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency and at an accelerated pace.
– Margaret Chan
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This acting's serious! And I really respect those actors. It's a tough business to be able to be something you're not and be natural and convince people on camera.
– Michael Strahan
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Think about all the great leaders. Think about Obama. Think about Clinton. Think about Nelson Mandela. Think about all the people that we know who are very successful in business, in politics and religion. What are they? They tell purposeful stories. They move people to action by aiming at the heart.
– Peter Guber
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These women whose antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty they are in showbiz, and showing what they've got is part of their business as much as it is for male show-ponies from the Chippendales to George Clooney.
– Julie Burchill
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There's no one I trust in show business more than Sabrina Wind. She's my eyes and ears when I can't be there. She weighs in on everything, from scripts to sets to advertising.
– Marc Cherry
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There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.
– Billie Holiday
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There was a perception of me, and I earned it because I was really intense, really gruff. I treated certain people poorly at times. It was because of who I was. It was almost my strength. I came in all business. I tried to find ways to fit in with that demeanor, but it's not easy.
– Kirk Gibson
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There is much that public policy can do to support American entrepreneurs. Health insurance reform will make it easier for entrepreneurs to take a chance on a new business without putting their family's health at risk. Tort reform will make it easier to take prudent risks on new products in a number of sectors.
– Eric Ries
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There are very few people that I deal with from a business side that it's just strictly a one-sided business relationship. I think that's important.
– David Nail
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There are similarities between business and sport, in the pressures involved and in the fitness aspect too.
– Peter Shilton
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There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.
– Bob Woodward
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The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business.
– Thomas Kinkade
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The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago.
– Julian Clary
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The way you continue to be a successful business is you don't wait for the car to go off the cliff. You have to manage yourself. And make sure you do it in the right way so you are not making decisions in crisis.
– Roger Goodell
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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.
– Albert J. Nock
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The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I've had to learn a little bit about it. It's not rocket science: You get ratings, that's good.
– Al Franken
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The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you're always asked to do what you've already done.
– Jeremy Irons
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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
– T-Bone Burnett
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The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from morning to night. So it was a big menagerie of kids, business and cooking!
– Anthony Minghella
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The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically they grow exponentially.
– Indra Nooyi
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The Obama administration believes in experts and blue-ribbon panels. They believe in creating new agencies and boards. They believe in all that, but they just don't trust the entrepreneur's ability to grow her own business and to create jobs.
– Sher Valenzuela
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The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected.
– John McKinley
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The Macau casinos have a wonderful business, it's taking in money from Chinese businessmen elsewhere who send it through junky companies to casinos to gamble. The growth continues and they have basically western managers and western accounting, so we trust the numbers a little bit more.
– James Chanos
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The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey.
– Kathryn Bigelow
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The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.
– Gilbert Murray
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The growth of Stewart Airport creates new jobs for area residents, brings new business and new travelers to the region, and brings new convenient travel options to those of us living in the Hudson Valley.
– Sue Kelly
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The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever.
– Joel Silver
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The business that people do in LA on the social level is amazing. You go to a restaurant, bump into this guy or that guy. The next day you get a call, and they want you in their movie.
– Kevin Bacon
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The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.
– Tony Snow
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The business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line, hungry. And, so they started to see a lot of that and there was, that maybe the leadership had its own cause. More so than the miners, you know, it was like a power struggle.
– Richard Grimes
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The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
– Ronald Reagan
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The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.
– John Ruskin
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The American economy has always been driven by the entrepreneurial nature of its citizens, and blocking access to affordable health care will only suffocate growth within the small business sector of our economy.
– Paul Gillmor
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That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offered more movies. It doesn't matter if you're a nice guy or you're a prick. If your movies do well, there's a job waiting for you in Hollywood. It's not any more complicated than that.
– Matt Damon
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That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.
– H. Jackson Browne
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Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.
– Hans Eysenck
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
– Sir Walter Scott
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Stand-up don't get no respect - it's the hardest thing to do in show business. You don't have no band and there's no music.
– Tracy Morgan
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So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.
– Gerald Scarfe
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So it's the kind of business where you can't wait to get up in the morning and read the papers, or listen to what's on the news, and you know, how the world's going to change.
– Sanford I. Weill
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Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.
– Anita Roddick
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Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.
– Elon Musk
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Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.
– Tom Peters
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Professional sports is a business.
– Lynn Swann
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Product management really is the fusion between technology, what engineers do - and the business side.
– Marissa Mayer
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Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
– Paul Valery
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Politics is a people business. I like people.
– Laura Bush
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Politics is a highly tribal business.
– Nick Clegg
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Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.
– Huston Smith
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Playing music has always felt very natural. You know, you do try to do other things, and you do learn lessons that way, but, eventually - well... if your dad is a plumber, you become a plumber. It's the family business, and I felt like I was taking over the family business.
– Dhani Harrison
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People trust I know what I'm doing. I have lots of credibility. I've had years of learning. I know and understand my business.
– Lori Greiner
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People like to do politics with me, and they like to do business.
– Terry McAuliffe
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Our perception of celebrities in Hollywood is not the reality. The reality of our lives is so much like everyone else's life. We have family members we love, everyone gets up in the morning, they have three meals a day and they go about their business.
– Sissy Spacek
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Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, too high prices for prescription drugs, and too many frivolous lawsuits driving our physicians out of state or out of business.
– Judy Biggert
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Other bands gave us lip service, but when it came down to it they kind of backed off. That was a little disheartening. But I respect them. That's their business.
– Mike McCready
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One of my producers said this business is like a hamster on that little wheel thing that goes around and around. You may have a great day and get great ratings, but then you've got another show to do - whatever moment of success or happiness you have you've got to keep grinding it out for the next day.
– Sean Hannity
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Of course this is Vegas and it is the melting pot for all over the world, but people from all over the world know Donny and Marie. It is amazing. I have been in the business a long time to realize careers can be fleeting. Five years is a long career nowadays for some people, and here we are still going strong after 40 years.
– Donny Osmond
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Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists.
– Jerry Saltz
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Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science.
– Arthur Machen
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Now I know that Wal-Mart's policies do not reflect the best way of doing business and the values that I think are important in America.
– Hillary Clinton
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