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• What every artist should try to prevent is the car, in which is our civilized life, plunging over the side of the precipice -- the exhibitionist extremist promoter driving the whole bag of tricks into a nihilistic nothingness or zero.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Zero, Artist, Car

  Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited

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• Women occupy, in great masses, the 'household tasks' of industry. They are nurses but not doctors, secretaries but not executives, researchers but not writers, workers but not managers, bookkeepers but not promoters.

  Vivian Gornick

  Doctors, Nurse, Tasks

  Vivian Gornick (1978). “Essays in feminism”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• An idea is like a play. It needs a good producer and a good promoter even if it is a masterpiece. Otherwise the play may never open; or it may open but, for a lack of an audience, close after a week. Similarly, an idea will not move from the fringes to the mainstream simply because it is good; it must be skillfully marketed before it will actually shift people's perceptions and behavior.

  David Bornstein

  Moving, Play, Ideas

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• I'm really not a trend promoter because I feel that people push trends on people they shouldn't.

  Tim Gunn

  People, Trends, Feels

  "Interview: Tim Gunn of ‘Project Runway’". Q&A session, www.fanbolt.com. March 15, 2010.

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• It has become the custom in our country to expect all Chief Executives, from the President down, to conduct activities analogous to an entertainment bureau. No occasion is too trivial for its promoters to invite them to attend and deliver an address.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Country, President, Entertainment

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• My business in the beginning was very lawless and the more trouble I go into, the more the promoters liked me back then. I was on the front page for doing something wrong, the arena was full. Then, all of a sudden, everything changed somehow and they put rules in. You put rules in a gunfight? I'm not so good at following those rules. I don't' know what will happen at WrestleMania.

  Roddy Piper

  Pages, Arena, Trouble

  "New Rules Every Day: An Interview with "Rowdy" Roddy Piper". Interview with Austin Kaus, 605magazine.com. April 4, 2014.

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• Promoters compete for fighters, fighters compete for titles.

  Carlos Newton

  Titles, Fighter

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• I'm sometimes asked how I would like to be remembered. I've had a diverse career as a writer, underwater explorer, space promoter and science populariser. Of all these, I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Careers, Space, Imagination

  "Sir Arthur C. Clarke: 90th Birthday Reflections". Arthur C. Clarke's message delivered on his 90th birthday, www.youtube.com. 2007.

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• Radio is paid by advertising. They decide what songs to play that'll keep people listening. And that's what promoters and the Classic Rock people do.

  George Thorogood

  Song, Rocks, Play

  "George Thorogood and The Destroyers hit Hard Rock at Northfield Park July 1". Cleveland Music Examiner Interview, www.georgethorogood.com.

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• My life has always been full of music..My father was a concert promoter when I was a kid so music has always been a part of my life growing up, furthering my desire to do music when I was old enough to create it on my own.

  Truth Hurts

  Growing Up, Father, Kids

  Source: popingcherry.wordpress.com

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• I didn't get paid for my first gig supporting Usher Raymond in the Temple in Tottenham when I was 17 or 18. I bugged the promoter to let me play and it went down a storm. And after that I got loads of gigs, which were paid.

  Lemar

  Play, Storm, Gigs

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance or stupidity [or racism or poverty! - Draffan] steals in a way that is not customary. He snatches a loaf from the baker's counter and is promptly run into gaol. Another man snatches bread from the table of hundreds of widows and orphans and similar credulous souls who do not know the ways of company promoters; and, as likely as not, he is run into Parliament.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Running, Ignorance, Men

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• By the aristocracy of finance must here be understood not merely the great loan promoters and speculators in public funds, in regard to whom it is immediately obvious that their interests coincide with the interests of the state power. All modern finance, the whole of the banking business, is interwoven in the closest fashion with public credit.

  Karl Marx

  Fashion, Aristocracy, Banking

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.334, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Every day is Thanksgiving for me, man. Yeah, I still have an audience, and they ask the local promoter, "When is Al coming back?"

  Al Jarreau

  Men, Als, Yeah

  "Jazz vocalist Al Jarreau". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 5, 2013.

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• The great crime which the moneyed classes and promoters of industry committed in the palmy Victorian days was the condemning of the workers to ugliness, ugliness, ugliness: meanness and formless and ugly surroundings, ugly ideals, ugly religion, ugly hope, ugly love, ugly clothes, ugly furniture, ugly houses, ugly relationship between workers and employers. The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Class, Clothes, House

  D. H. Lawrence (2017). “Phoenix: the Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence by D. H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.138, Delphi Classics (Parts Edition) via PublishDrive

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• I'm a rock 'n' roll baby. I was one of the last actually born into rock, in the middle of it. My mother was a promoter, so I grew up with rock stars. When I was little, people like Jimi Hendrix were walking around in the living room.

  Ari Up

  Mother, Baby, Stars

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Lots of people aren't self-promoters. You've just never heard of them.

  Dorothy Gambrell

  Self, People, Heard

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• I didn't really get that good at cutting because I didn't have those three years of gestating and nurturing my skills in the bedroom. I was kind of, like, out and playing in clubs after three of four months, because I was pushy with promoters. But I would just listen to the radio - Stretch Armstrong and Red Alert - and then I would go hang out with Mayhem, who did the WNYU hip-hop show.

  Mark Ronson

  Cutting, Years, Skills

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Being short and seeing a promoter take the stock up is very irritating. It's not worth it to have that much irritation in your life.

  Charlie Munger

  Irritation, Irritating, Not Worth It

  Charlie Munger's comments on short selling at the 2001 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. April 28, 2001.

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• Of course, we were not promoters, we Westons, let's face it. Dad had only $300 in the bank at the end, that's all he had.

  Brett Weston

  Dad, Faces, Ends

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• I was like the roadie, I was carrying gear, checking things in at airports, making sure they had flowers backstage and interfacing with promoters who were sometimes really nice and sometimes a little seedy. It was a great apprenticeship, to be in the music industry.

  Annie E. Clark

  Nice, Flower, Airports

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• Vitali [Klitschko] does want to fight me, but his promoter wants to be bigger than him. This is another situation of politics in the sport.

  Lennox Lewis

  Sports, Fighting, Want

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• Pledge Allegiance was a pretty generic name back in the day. In the 80's I was the promoter for all the punk rock shows and I'd book Black Flag, Dead Kennedy's, Minor Threat etc and I'd hook them up with places to stay if needed so it's hard to keep track of it all.

  Reed Mullin

  Book, Names, Generic Name

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I'm not a Hillary Clinton defender. I'm a Hillary Clinton promoter.

  Tim Kaine

  Clinton, Defenders

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I won't necessarily make new music because when you make a record there are these great expectations on the side of the record company who are going to produce your record, promoters that are going to do your shows. They want you to do interviews, they want you to play shows. I mean, they want it to be a campaign.

  Black Francis

  Mean, Play, Expectations

  Source: thequietus.com

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