Stores Quotes - Page 15

• In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet of dynamite fuse.

  Kary Mullis

  Kids, Play, Feet

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• Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an existing franchise dealer that had already invested time, money and effort to open and promote their business.

  Elon Musk

  Law, Effort, Competition

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

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• Pressure cookers are relatively inexpensive, they're in every kitchen store, your grandma probably had one, but a lot of people don't. A pressure cooker is interesting because by pressurizing the vessel, you're able to cook much hotter than the boiling point of water, and still have water be present.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Grandma, Water, Interesting

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• Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  School, Medicine, Choices

  "Every Week There is More Reason to Feel Empathy for Animals" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2009.

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• I have been known to go to the grocery store and just buy pepperoni. There's just something fantastic about salty, fatty meats.

  Rachel Nichols

  Meat, Fantastic, Groceries

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• How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.

  Rachel Nichols

  Sexy, Sound, Boring

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• Apparently the new high-tech Star Wars toys will be in stores any day now. The toys can talk and are interactive, so they can be easily distinguished from Star Wars fans.

  Conan O'Brien

  Stars, War, New Day

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• You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won't receive the good things God has in store.

  Joel Osteen

  Letting Go, Mistake, Mad

  "Joel Osteen: The Power of Positivity". Interview with Lisa Ryan, www.cbn.com.

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• Most important thought, if you love someone, tell him or her, for you never know what tomorrow may have in store.

  Walter Payton

  Nfl, Important, If You Love Someone

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• A store's best advertisement is the service its goods render, for upon such service rest the future, the good-will, of an organization.

  James Cash Penney

  Organization, Economy, Goods

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• We can serve our customers well only if our buying jobs are right. You cannot sell if you haven't ordered wanted goods into your store.

  James Cash Penney

  Jobs, Buying, Economy

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• I've made up so many stores about my name, I can't remember.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Names, Remember, Made

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• You go to Main Street, and Wal-Mart is coming to town and kicking out all the mom and pop stores. All the people that were in the mom and pop stores are now working for Wal-Mart.

  Dennis Quaid

  Mom, People, Kicking

  "Dennis Quaid and Director Ramin Bahrani Talk AT ANY PRICE, the American Dream, and Ending on a Morally Ambiguous Note". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. April 23, 2013.

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• We are Americans. We - we - we are - we are doctors. We are investment bankers. We are taxi drivers. We are store keepers. We are lawyers. We are - we are part of the fabric of America. And the way that America today treats its Muslims is being watched by over a billion Muslims worldwide.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Doctors, America, Bankers

  This Week with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. September 12, 2010.

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• I take Wellbutrin because I'm afraid to go into stores. I'm afraid people are going to yell at me.

  Christina Ricci

  People

  "Christina Ricci: The One and Only". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. May 1, 2001.

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• I do love to shop. But I'm a social shopper. I like to do it while hanging out with my friends. Some of them hate shopping because they treat it like something you have to plan, like a grocery list. But if I'm out and I pass a store, I just pop in.

  Nicole Richie

  Hate, Shopping, Lists

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

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• 'Fashion Star' has been an incredible platform to show America the amount of work and discussion that goes into each garment you see in a store.

  Nicole Richie

  Fashion, Stars, America

  "Q&A: Nicole Richie Showcases Winter Kate on NBC" by Kerry Pieri, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 10, 2012.

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• I used to go to Saks, I would go to Bergdorf, I would go to Barneys, I would go to thrift stores in SoHo.

  ASAP Rocky

  Soho, Used, Thrift

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• The Comedy Store in LA, it's a really loose room and it's really dark and creepy and a great place to explore your own thoughts onstage.

  Joe Rogan

  Dark, Creepy, Rooms

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• A currency serves three functions: providing a means of payment, a unit of account and a store of value. Gold may be a store of value for wealth, but it is not a means of payment. You cannot pay for your groceries with it. Nor is it a unit of account. Prices of goods and services, and of financial assets, are not denominated in gold terms.

  Nouriel Roubini

  Mean, Gold, Three

  "Gold prices are heading towards $1,000" by Nouriel Roubini, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2013.

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• Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores - these didn't come out of nowhere.

  Paul Ryan

  Business, Hair, Cities

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• Know how to effectively voice a complaint or make a claim at a retail store.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Voice, Retail, Claims

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• If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.

  Alexei Sayle

  Cities, Cobblers, Charity

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• California, in a sense, is almost Starbucks' largest country, with almost 3,000 stores.

  Howard Schultz

  Country, California, Starbucks

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• We have a big opportunity in China. We think the number of stores here can rival the number in North America.

  Howard Schultz

  Opportunity, Thinking, Numbers

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