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• I have my own gym. When you do jokes and they sell, you get a gym.

  Don Rickles

  Gym, My Own, Jokes

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• Everything is designed to help you sell out.

  Patrick Swayze

  Helping

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• I hate pork rinds. I couldn’t imagine how anybody would ever get the idea of taking skin from a pig and frying it and then trying to sell it to people. And then people actually buy it to eat it. That is the true sign of the decline of the human race.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Hate, Race, Pigs

  "Q&A – Joel Kinnaman (Stephen Holder)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com.

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• Whether people want to do business or sell things online, reach new people and be found, showcase their achievements, or communicate with their friends or family, Weebly is the best way for them to create a high-quality site that meets their goals.

  David Rusenko

  People, Goal, Achievement

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• I don't sell dope, I sell hope.

  Cee Lo Green

  Dope

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• Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you’re really buying into someone else’s system of values, rules and rewards.

  Bill Watterson

  Buying In, Rewards, Matter

  "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.

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• I sell well now in Russia. I remember one signing in Russia some years ago where the bookstore had two strongmen to hold the crowds back.

  Robert Sheckley

  Two, Russia, Years

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• Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.

  Alastair Campbell

  People, Want

  "A crisis of credibility" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2008.

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• Yet another hedge fund manager explained Icelandic banking to me this way: you have a dog, and I have a cat. We agree that each is worth a billion dollars. You sell me the dog for a billion, and I sell you the cat for a billion. Now we are no longer pet owners but Icelandic banks, with a billion dollars in new assets.

  Michael Lewis

  Dog, Cat, Pet

  "Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World". Book by Michael Lewis, 2011.

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• I'm not saying that charming, witty and warm copy won't sell. I'm just saying I've seen thousands of charming, witty campaigns that didn't sell.

  Rosser Reeves

  Witty, Campaigns, Just Saying

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• The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them too cheap). The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

  Benjamin Graham

  Intelligent, Swings, Optimism

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.

  Iris Murdoch

  Junk, Genius, Easier

  Iris Murdoch (1977). “Under the Net”, p.54, Penguin

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• I have seen entrepreneurs ask for hundreds of millions of dollars on a concept and try to sell because of 'their passion' for an idea. If the idea is that good, why wouldn't I cut you out and hire someone who is just as passionate for much, much less?

  Kevin Harrington

  Passion, Cutting, Ideas

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• I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff.

  Lee Daniels

  Running, Soul, Hollywood

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• I never feel like I need to make a song that sells 5 million copies; that's not the point of why I make music. It's great if that happens, like it did with 'Clarity,' but my goal is to always make a better track than the last one.

  Zedd

  Song, Track, Goal

  "Zedd says Hayley Williams 'fits so well' on 'stay the night'" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. September 10, 2013.

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• Most men, it seems to me, do not care for Nature and would sell their share in all her beauty, as long as they may live, for a stated sum - many for a glass of rum. Thank God, men cannot as yet fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Glasses, Sky

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.217, Courier Corporation

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• When you're a weird geek, the way to sell yourself is to show your skills.

  Temple Grandin

  Skills, Way, Geek

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• We're in the media business today. We're in the business of helping authors and publishers market their books to readers. And that's where we make our money. We sell book launch packages to authors and publishers and really help accelerate, build that early buzz that a book needs to succeed when it launches and accelerate that growth through ads on the site.

  Otis Chandler

  Book, Media, Growth

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• In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force

  Angela Carter

  Taken, World, Commodity

  Angela Carter (2015). “The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History”, p.32, Hachette UK

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• When the painting is hanging on your wall for a long time, you don't notice it. You get tired of it, even if it's a Picasso. When the next generation inherits the painting, they sell it. I don't want to be sold.

  Julio Iglesias

  Wall, Tired, Long

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

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• Michael Jordan didn’t become a great basketball player because he wanted to do product endorsements. Van Gogh didn’t become a great painter because he dreamed that one day his paintings would sell for $50 million.

  Jack D. Schwager

  Basketball, Player, One Day

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• Nobody's going to sell 10 million records by not working hard.

  Daryl Hall

  Records, Hard, Millions

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• Those smutty books sell because women wish their husbands had half the balls the men in those books do.

  Tara Brown

  Husband, Book, Men

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• It's important for me to sell a product that works.

  Billy Mays

  Important, Products

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

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• It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste.

  Earl Sweatshirt

  Would Be, Records, Want

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