Selling Quotes - Page 35

• The truth is the Republican leadership has created a credit card Congress that is recklessly selling out the future of America, our children and our grandchildren, and President Bush is the most fiscally irresponsible President in the history of America.

  Dennis Cardoza

  Children, America, President

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• I've got nothing against selling out, but just let me do it for something that matters. Not so I can be Number One With a Bullet, as it were, but so I can leave this world feeling like I made a difference.

  Harry Chapin

  Numbers, Differences, Feelings

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• You see I don't like to be really too commercial about things but in this business you've just got to be commercial otherwise the films don't make money and you don't make films and as a long as a commodity is selling it's silly to kill it dead.

  Peter Cushing

  Silly, Long, Film

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• Making music has gotten easier; selling it has gotten harder. Making music has been democratized, but the market is in the hands of fascists.

  Stewart Copeland

  Hands, Easier, Fascists

  "Film: 'Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out'". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. January 27, 2006.

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• Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.

  Vince Cable

  Ideas, Easy, Bizarre

  "Vince Cable hits out at 'backward' Tory rightwingers" by Patrick Wintour and Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2012.

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• If you write a lovely story about India, you're criticized for selling an exotic version of India. And if you write critically about India, you're seen as portraying it in a negative light - it also seems to be a popular way to present India, sort of mangoes and beggars.

  Kiran Desai

  Writing, Light, Lovely

  "Kiran Desai Talk Asia interview". Interview With Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. April 24, 2007.

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• Records aren't selling anymore; people are burning music.

  Tom DeLonge

  People, Burning, Records

  "Angels & Airwaves' Revolution Has Begun — Just Wait 29 Years, Tom Delonge Insists" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. September 18, 2007.

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• I'm not ashamed of selling millions of records. I'm very fortunate to be in that position.

  Chris Daughtry

  Records, Ashamed, Position

  "Chris Daughtry: '4:00 A.M.'". www.esquire.com. April 17, 2012.

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• My first job, 9 years old, part-time, was selling Christmas cards door-to-door. Ten years old, my brother and I had paper routes. We delivered a morning paper called the 'L.A. Examiner.' Get up at 4 o'clock, fold your papers, deliver them and get ready for school.

  John Paul DeJoria

  Morning, Brother, Jobs

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• If you're looking to make a basic living selling and playing your music, the Internet is all you really need.

  Kina Grannis

  Needs, Internet, Ifs

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• Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets.

  Chuck Grassley

  Integrity, Drug, Secret

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• We need to be celebrating those who serve us rather than mocking them for the purpose of getting on TV and selling some books.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Book, Needs, Purpose

  "Madame Voldemort Is Wrong: Public Employees Are American Heroes" by Gov. Jennifer Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 6, 2012.

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• When governments are selling, you should be buying. And when governments are defaulting, we should look at that as an opportunity.

  David Bonderman

  Opportunity, Government, Looks

  "TPG's Bonderman Sees Mega LBO Coming - $10-15B Deal". www.businessinsider.com. March 04, 2011.

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• I'm not turned on, so put away that meat you're selling.

  Fiona Apple

  Art, Media, Entertainment

  Song: Get Gone, Album: When The Pawn..., 1999

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• No shame, no solution, no remorse, no retribution, just people selling t-shirts.

  Don Henley

  Art, Media, People

  Song: The Garden of Allah

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• Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with material thoughts from the crib to the grave.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Dream, Art, Thinking

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• … what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names — otherwise you would be selling nothing — like “Structured Analysis and Design”, “Software Engineering”, “Maturity Models”, “Management Information Systems”, “Integrated Project Support Environments” “Object Orientation” and “Business Process Re-engineering”.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Maturity, Engineering, Snakes

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• They're selling postcards of the hanging.

  Bob Dylan

  Order, Law, Postcards

  Song: Desolation Row, Album: Highway 61 Revisited, 1965

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• It sounds to me like selling a car with faulty brakes, and then buying an insurance policy on those cars.

  Phil Angelides

  Business, Car, Sound

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• Investing in the market without knowing what stage it is in is like selling life insurance to 20 year olds and 80 year olds at the same premium.

  Victor Sperandeo

  Business, Years, Knowing

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• One market paradigm that I take exception to is: Buy low and sell high. I believe far more money is made by buying high and selling at even higher prices.

  Richard Driehaus

  Business, Believe, Buying

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• Selling is nothing more than asking questions and waiting for an answer.

  Jack White

  Asking Questions, Waiting, Answers

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• When the War ended in 1945, I started selling vacuum cleaners door to door. Then I sold insurance door to door. I even tried selling cars.

  Clint Walker

  War, Doors, Car

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• The idea of selling a Cezanne to buy a Morisot seems explosively contentious.

  Michael Scott

  Ideas, Cezanne, Contentious

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• A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.

  Robert Genn

  Art, May, Difficult

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