Quotes About Industry

But I never had that commercial opportunity to be played on the radio, so how could I be popular?

The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do with musicianship.

I'd love to get played on the radio, but it just doesn't happen.

Country artists have advantages all over the place. The radio support is incredible. The fanbase is rabid, all over.

When you talk to people about their practical life, for example when they're at work, like the rail industry, the RMT members know better than anyone else how to run their industry.

I could go back to the railroad. I liked that job.

For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.

We will be in the railroad business, first and foremost.

For much of history it was possible to believe that the great diversity of life on Earth was a fixed creation, that the living world had never changed. But when the first stirrings of industry demanded that fuel be dug from the earth and hillsides be leveled for roads and railways, the Earth's true past was dug up in abundance.

I own a company called Rain Industries.

I started Friends of Finn to raise money and awareness about the issue of puppy mills, which are illegal breeding facilities where animals are often bred to death and mistreated. It's a prevalent problem and a million dollar industry in the United States.

It's hard to make a film in Britain. It's hard to raise money. The best stuff that is shot on film in Britain is usually shot on film for television.

Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms.

Many Hindi films that are Tamil remakes rake in huge moolah in Bollywood.

Ultimately, Dead Prez should have went multi-platinum. But when people didn't rally around them, I knew the black hip-hop audience had become far less politicized.

'Satya' was a groundbreaking film that opened people's eyes. People like Ram Gopal Varma and Shekhar Kapur introduced such films in the industry as never seen before, and it wasn't easy if you went to a producer with an arthouse film back in the '90s. They'd laugh you out of the room.

I wouldn't say films are a natural process after modelling. Films are more complex. There is not much connection between ramp shows and films.

When I walk for a designer, I walk the ramp as Vijender Singh, the boxer. I believe that by doing so, boxing will at least, in some way, get promoted in our entertainment industry. Plus, if cricketers can, why can't I?

In fact my first film ran for about 400 days. It all depends on hype, marketing and publicity, which are actually more expensive than the actual film.

In 1893 I founded a chemical company which I ran until 1899.

In the 1940s, the petroleum business was an American game, and it was enormously to our advantage that the world ran on oil.

If I ran the Grammys, it would probably go bankrupt.

Historically, for a stop-motion film, you gathered the crew together, you made the movie, and then everyone ran screaming to the next project.

I've outlasted many marriages at Random House.