Buying Quotes - Page 10

• The disaster in the Gulf was no accident. It was the result of years of oil money buying off politicians to lead to an unregulated and ill focused addiction to oil and drilling. The doomed fate of the local fisherman and the environment were foretold in the infamous chants of 'Drill, Baby, Drill.

  Robert Greenwald

  Baby, Fate, Years

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

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• I think I learned a lot about not buying into a lot of hype. I wanted to be a kind of faceless entity; I didn't want to be Dhani Harrison and the Muppets or something like that.

  Dhani Harrison

  Thinking, Hype, Want

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

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• I ran my own business when I was 19, buying condos and renovating apartment buildings.

  Jared Kushner

  Building, Apartment, Ran

  "An accidental proprietor" by Tom Teodorczuk, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2008.

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• That's what I paint, I paint people. They're portraits, but you won't always be pleased with the way you look in my paintings. Which is fine, I guess. Unless you're buying it, and it's of your kid!

  Jemima Kirke

  Kids, People, Portraits

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

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• Buying art is not understanding art.

  Anselm Kiefer

  Art, Understanding, Buying Art

  "Anselm Kiefer: 'Art is difficult, it's not entertainment'" by Alex Needham, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2011.

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• There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast.

  Alex Kapranos

  Character, Play, Beans

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think they like the idea that the people who are buying the record get to choose what goes out, because it's their job. The fans even pre-ordered stock to make sure that I had some sort of presence.

  John Otway

  Jobs, Thinking, Ideas

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• Corporations invest in sophisticated CRM, or Customer Relationship Management, programs to effectively oversee their relationship with their customers at every point during the buying process.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  Corporations, Management, Sophisticated

  "David vs. Goliath: Internet Entrepreneurship vs. Corporate America" by Marc Ostrofsky, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 29, 2011.

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• I ended up buying business.com for $150,000 because I wanted to make it a magazine. It would have been a 'Time'-type magazine: how to do business on the Internet. And I was offered a lot of money for that domain. I played two buyers against each other.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  Two, Magazines, Internet

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• I watched my parents go from having very basic jobs to educating themselves, to buying a house. They set a really good bar for what they wanted their kids to achieve.

  Tinie Tempah

  Jobs, Kids, Parent

  "Tinie Tempah interview: 'It's a new day, a new age, a new outlook'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2011.

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• Athletes, coaches and parents today are increasingly aware of the danger of concussion, and this awareness influences decisions about buying new and reconditioned football helmets.

  Tom Udall

  Football, Athlete, Decision

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• Less is more. I truly believe in buying a few pieces with better construction.

  Stacy London

  Believe, Pieces, Less Is More

  "Q&A: Stacy London tells 'The Truth About Style'". Interview with JIllian Singh, blog.sfgate.com. October 9, 2012.

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• It got to the point in the late 70s and early 80s that I was spending so much money buying golden age comics that I could only justify it if I got work in the media.

  Bill Mumy

  Media, Age, Golden

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• Many of life's decisions are hard. What kind of career should you pursue? Does your ailing mother need to be put in a nursing home? You and your spouse already have two kids; should you have a third?such decisions are hard for a number of reasons. For one the stakes are high. There's also a great deal of uncertainty involved. Above all, decisions like these are rare, which means you don't get much practice making them. You've probably gotten good at buying groceries, since you do it so often, but buying your first house is another thing entirely.

  Steven Levitt

  Mother, Home, Mean

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• People who get to express their voice are paid by the people who make profit from it. So they're going to make you believe you have to spend your money buying these products otherwise you won't be happy. This is really wrong. Especially the implication it carries.

  Michel Gondry

  Believe, Voice, People

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• Once you turn pro and you're making the big money and kids are buying your sneakers and your skates and your gloves and so on, you are a member of that role model club.

  Bobby Orr

  Kids, Sneakers, Role Models

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• I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Bob, Dylan

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• In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally.

  Jim Balsillie

  Buying In, America, Noise

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• My earliest memory from childhood is of fishing with my father. And I remember vividly we were in a store, and we were buying a pup tent to go on our first camping trip.

  David Suzuki

  Memories, Father, Fishing

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• The old process of social assimilation used to be mainly about English new money - generated in London, the mucky, brassy North or the colonies - buying those houses and restoring them, and doing the three-generation thing, mouldering into the landscape, and the 'community,' identifying with the place in a familiar way.

  Peter York

  Community, House, Generations

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• Since I was 13, I've been buying things because they are ridiculously cheap.

  Ronald Burkle

  Buying Things

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• If you're buying tomatoes pick them up and smell them-they should have a lovely perfume. They need to be kept at fifty degrees or above, particularly during the growing season, because that's when they develop their flavor.

  Julia Child

  Smell, Should Have, Lovely

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You just realize that you have to be committed to this thing in this kind of world that we're in the more your support group dwindles and you start seeing your peers buying houses and getting corporate jobs. So that can be discouraging.

  J. Robbins

  Jobs, House, Support

  "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.

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• I didn't want to pretend to be a conceptual artist that charges $10,000 for an experience. It's just not what I am. I'm a photographer and I make prints. And people buy a print, and I understand that. But I'm uncomfortable with buying an experience.

  Alec Soth

  Artist, People, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you do something really cognitively demanding, like buying furniture, it turns out buying furniture is one of the most difficult things we do. Go into a furniture store and look at a sofa.

  David Brooks

  Looks, Furniture, Stores

  "David Brooks: From Spouses to Sofas, ‘Emotions Tell Us What to Value’". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. March 8, 2011.

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