Cary Sherman famous quotes

Industries are fearful of legislation. But if you start in the marketplace and forge a solution, you get a lot less resistance - and often a more flexible approach.
-- Cary Sherman

#Resistance #Legislation #Approach

10 years ago [in 2006], nearly 90 percent of those albums sold enough in that year to reach Gold status. 10 years later, about 30 percent were eligible. With the new rules, we figure about 40 percent of the top 200 best-sellers for the year will be eligible. We were very cautious in our approach to changing how we calculate what is eligible because the integrity of the process is our foremost consideration. It's difficult to get certified sales awards, and it's a big deal and we didn't want there to be a huge change in how many would be eligible.
-- Cary Sherman

#Integrity #Awards #Years

There will be no breakout. When we changed for the single, we never specified what the breakout for sales to streams were.
-- Cary Sherman

#Changed #Streams

We do not take into account the value of the stream. We see the number of streams as a measure of consumer demand, not the value. As it is, we think streams are under-monetized, and we are complaining loudly about that. If the value of a stream changes, we won't alter the count because we don't want to alter the history of the program because that would impact these milestone achievements.
-- Cary Sherman

#Thinking #Impact #Numbers

The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are.

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

It was the Democrats who were against civil rights legislation

Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and live happily with each other has failed. Utterly failed.

This (multicultural) approach has failed, utterly failed,

I don't approach fashion; fashion approaches me!

I approach directing from an actor's standpoint.