Auctions Quotes - Page 3

• I was never like, "collect, collect," like people who go to auctions. I never spent a serious amount of time because I don't have any time!

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  People, Serious, Amount

  "Mikhail Baryshnikov Shared His Walls". Interview with Lorraine Cwelich, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 10, 2012.

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• Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.

  Bill Moyers

  Block, Long, Democracy

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• If you didn't auction the [CO2] permits, it would represent the largest corporate welfare program that has ever been enacted in the history of the United States. All of the evidence is that what would occur is that corporate profits would increase by approximately the value of the permits.

  Peter R. Orszag

  Welfare Programs, Energy, United States

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• Sometimes when I'm swimming, I think that maybe someday I'll put my red Speedo up for auction. Or maybe I'll donate it to the Smithsonian. They can stuff it with two plums and a gherkin and put it on display.

  David Duchovny

  Swimming, Thinking, Two

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• A tipping point is invisible, as we just saw in Greece. In most situations, everything appears fine until it's not fine, until, for example, no one shows up at a Treasury auction.

  Seth Klarman

  Example, Tipping, Saws

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• I still feel pangs of remorse over an insidious habit I've had since I was a teenager. About three times a week, I attend estate auctions and make insulting, low-ball bids for prized heirlooms until I'm asked to leave.

  Dennis Miller

  Teenager, Insulting, Three

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• Stand up and pledge with me: A government of the United States is not on the auction block. And America is not for sale!

  Tom Selleck

  Block, Government, America

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• Our company has only been active in Beijing and Shanghai, two very market-dominated cities. This was an advantage. Land is purchased here in public auctions, in a transparent way. When you do real estate development outside Beijing and Shanghai it is good to have "guanxi" - good relations within the local government.

  Zhang Xin

  Real, Government, Land

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• So, you're seeing the Rolls-Royces and the Bentley's still selling for big prices. You're seeing jewelry still selling, art works at auction. There was a diamond that sold for I think 38 million, 48 million, something like that just a week ago. So prices are back up to their highs, getting stronger and more and more people seem to have more and more money to spend.

  Robin Leach

  Art, Thinking, People

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory, Lawler has spent three decades documenting the secret life of art. Functioning as a kind of one-woman CSI unit, she has photographed pictures and objects in collectors' homes, in galleries, on the walls of auction houses, and off the walls, in museum storage.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Wall, Home

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• My first ball I ever got from a big-league player I actually got to purchase in Dodger Stadium in a silent auction, was Reggie Jackson.

  Pedro Martinez

  Player, League, Balls

  "Pedro Martinez slams Don Zimmer again for 2003 bout, Zim admits fault". Interview with Adam Rubin, www.nydailynews.com. October 29, 2009.

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• My first car, I got it in an auction at my temple. It was an '86 Volvo that I got for 500 bucks, and then wound up throwing $10,000 into the stereo system and put TVs in the foot rests. It was the most ridiculous Volvo you'd ever seen, but I had never had money before and I was out of my mind.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Feet, Car, Mind

  "Shia LaBeouf and Dane DeHaan Talk LAWLESS, Sampling Moonshine, and Bringing These Characters to Life". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 27, 2012.

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• There is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want to be seen to be bidding.

  William McIlvanney

  Laughter, People, Laughing

  1985 The BigMan, ch.1.

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• The book of the moment often has immense vogue, while the book of the age, which comes in its company from the press, lies unnoticed; but the great book has its revenge. It lives to see its contemporary pushed up shelf by shelf until it finds its final resting-place in the garret or the auction room.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  Revenge, Lying, Book

  Hamilton Wright Mabie (1893). “My Study Fire”

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• Here’s a secret intel bulletin for all y’all who’ve never left Yoknapatawpha County and imagine the United States is constantly on the precipice of enemy invasion—the only way this country is ever going to surrender its liberty to a foreign power is if it keeps electing corrupt officials who auction it away to multinational corporations and overseas government interests in exactly the fashion that southern star chambers have been doing to their own people throughout their entire dyspeptic history.

  Chuck Thompson

  Country, Fashion, Stars

  Chuck Thompson (2013). “Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Now every club promoter wanna bid like auctions, cause I pack shows, sell ticks Celtics like Boston.

  Nicki Minaj

  Boston, Clubs, Causes

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• What I do know is, in little more than 30 years, we have gone from a nation where the “quiet enjoyment” of one’s private property was a sacred right, to a day when the so-called property “owner” faces a hovering hoard of taxmen and regulators threatening to lien, foreclose, and “go to auction” at the first sign of private defiance of their collective will ... a relationship between government and private property rights which my dictionary defines as “fascism.”

  Vin Suprynowicz

  Rights, Government, Years

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• Through SCP Auctions, the Garvey family will also continue to share our great love for baseball by donating time and dollars to youth baseball programs.

  Steve Garvey

  Baseball, Great Love, Dollars

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• People were doing business with one another through the Internet already, through bulletin boards. But on the Web, we could make it interactive, we could create an auction, we could create a real marketplace. And that's really what triggered my imagination, if you will, and that's what I did.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Real, People, Imagination

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• The lesson here, and my advice for other developers, is to find a way that you can quantify for people what your product is worth. We were leery to do it ourselves, but being near Vetro when they did, the auction was a good technique for that. No one wants to be first, and the auction proved to people that others were buying and gave them that boost of confidence they needed.

  Bob Horner

  People, Advice, Technique

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• As you start building the product, don't assume that you know all the answers. Listen to the community and adapt. We had a lot of our own ideas about how the service would evolve. Coming from PayPal and eBay, we saw YouTube as a powerful way to add video to auctions, but we didn't see anyone using our product that way, so we didn't add features to support it.

  Chad Hurley

  Success, Business, Powerful

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• We saw farms go on the auction block while we bought food from foreign countries. Well, that's wrong.

  Ann Richards

  Country, Block, Cooking

  Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 19 July 1988, Atlanta GA

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• It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, School, Learning

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• You do it a day at a time. You just put your rejection slips in a shoebox and tell yourself one day you're going to autograph them and sell them at auction.

  James Lee Burke

  Writing, Rejection, One Day

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• Get yourself a few ‘Dime a Dozen Generals,’ bid high in the ‘former statesmen lobby auction’, and put in your pocket one or two ‘ex-congressmen turned lobbyists’ who know the ropes when it comes to pocketing a few dozen who still serve.

  Sibel Edmonds

  Two, Pockets, Lobbyists

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