Dealer Quotes - Page 8

• I wanted to be a visual artist because I grew up around a lot of painters and photographers and had a very artistic upbringing. And I fantasized about being a drug-dealer when I was a kid. I thought it would be a good opportunity; I knew that the market would be strong. Is that bizarre?

  Jared Leto

  Strong, Kids, Artist

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• Since shotguns are not military weapons, your local sporting goods dealer will have good information about them, as long as you aren't black, Spanish, or a white freak.

  William Powell

  Military, White, Long

  "The Anarchist Cookbook". Book by William Powell, Chapter Three: "Natural, Nonlethal, and Lethal Weapons", 1971.

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• The only things that were available to me were either be a laborer or be a drug dealer. So I became an armed robber. It was a lot simpler.

  Danny Trejo

  Drug, Laborers, Robbers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Drug dealers live vicariously through me

  Drake

  Humble, Drug, Bragging

  Song: Say What's Real, Album: So Far Gone, 2009

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• I'm addicted to you. You're my crack, and you also happen to be the only dealer.

  Katy Evans

  Cracks, Happens, Addicted To You

  Katy Evans (2013). “Mine”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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• Is he Catholic?" her grandmother asked on the way out. He's a drug dealer -- so if he is religious, he's got incredible powers of reconciliation. "He looks like a good boy," her vovo said over her shoulder. "A good Catholic boy." And that was that -- for now.

  J.R. Ward

  Religious, Grandmother, Boys

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• Don King was good to me through my years as champion, but I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him. He's a wheeler dealer and you've got to be careful. He's a great con artist.

  Larry Holmes

  Kings, Artist, Years

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• The difference between de jure and de facto segregation is the difference between open, forthright bigotry and the shamefaced kind that works through unwritten agreements between real estate dealers, school officials, and local politicians.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Real, School, Agreement

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.172, Take Root Media

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• You are your own master, you make your own future. Therefore discipline yourself as a horse-dealer trains a thoroughbred

  Gautama Buddha

  Horse, Inspiration, Discipline

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• Soon you start craving that intense attention with the hungry obsession of any junkie. When the drug is withheld you probably turn sick, crazy and depleted not to mention resentful of the dealer who encourage this addiction in the first place but who now refuses to pony up the good stuff anymore despite that you know that he has it hidden somewhere God dammit because you know that he used to give it to you for free.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Crazy, Addiction, Giving

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• God damn! Drug dealers dealin' to the kiddies,
  Livin' in the city ain't no pity on the itty-bitty.
  We try to cry, but still they all die,
  I try to speak to the youth, and the truth is: they all high.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rap, Cities, Hip Hop

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• Once a guy starts using a wig, he has to keep using one. It's, like, his fate. That's why wig makers make such huge profits. I hate to say it, but they're like drug dealers.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hate, Fate, Guy

  "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1994.

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• How can this be your car? (Nick) Well, I wrote a really big check that didn’t bounce to the dealer and then the most amazing thing happened…the salesman gave me the keys and let me take it home. It was like magic. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Home, Keys, Car

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• I've had more students die than I ever thought possible. My husband urges me to quit Fairfield and teach at some school without gang members who live their lives only to die or end up as drug dealers.

  Simone Elkeles

  Husband, School, Gang Members

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• I'm working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still.

  Claude Monet

  Determination, Painting, Absence

  Claude Monet (1999). “Monet by himself: paintings, drawings, pastels, letters”

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• The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Principles, Methodology

  Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• If I'm lucky, when I paint, first my patrons leave the room, then my dealers, and if I'm really lucky I leave too.

  Edouard Manet

  Lucky, Rooms, Firsts

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• No dealer, curator, buyer or critic, or any existing combination of these, can be depended on to produce a reputation that is more than a momentary flurry.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Recognition, Reputation, Curator

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• Dealer goodwill and friendship are keys to thrival.

  Robert Genn

  Keys, Goodwill

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• Artists of the world arise - it's time to dump your dealers.

  Mark Kostabi

  Artist, World, Arise

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• Well, again, a gun sale database is just trying to get the Department of Justice to keep track of the guns that they're purchasing and supplying to drug dealers and murderers. I mean, wow. Come on, let's get the government under control before we start restricting the rights of - innocent citizens.

  John Mica

  Mean, Gun, Rights

  "Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees", votesmart.org. June 27, 2012.

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• A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.

  Lee Iacocca

  Guy, Mentor, Retail

  "Lee Iacocca, The !dea Man". Interview with David E. Davis, Jr., www.motortrend.com. October 5, 2005.

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• The British are the last national group who can be insulted by Hollywood without any comeback. These days if you depict Italians as gangsters, Saudis as terrorists or Mexicans as violent drug dealers you'll never hear the end of it. But as still the largest - and possibly the richest - ethnic group in the States, the British just have to take it.

  Simon Hoggart

  Drug, Hollywood, Groups

  "What do men guilty of 'inappropriate behaviour' think they will get from it?" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2013.

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• I grew up in the 'hood around prostitutes, drug dealers, killers, and gangbangers, but I also grew up juxtaposed: On the doorknob outside of our apartment, there was blood from some guy who got shot; but inside, there was National Geographic magazines and encyclopedias and a little library bookshelf situation.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Blood, Guy, Drug

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• But at some point, you know that - you know what poem keeps going through my mind is, "first they came for the Jews." People, all of us, are like, "Well, this news doesn't really affect me." "Well, I'm not a bondholder." "Well, I'm not in the banking industry." "Well, I'm not a big CEO." "Well, I'm not on Wall Street." "Well, I'm not a car dealer." "I'm not an auto worker." Gang, at some point, they're going to come for you!

  Glenn Beck

  Wall, People, Car

  "Beck compares car dealership closures to Nazis; warns 'Gang, at some point, they're going to come for you'". "The Glenn Beck Program", www.mediamatters.org. June 10, 2009.

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