Sellers Quotes

• Peter Sellers constantly reinvented himself.

  Merrie Spaeth

  Peter

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• To me, if you are in the same building with Peter Sellers or John Cleese, or any of those guys and holding your own making other people laugh, that's a compliment.

  Alice Cooper

  People, Laughing, Guy

  "Kerby’s Exclusive Interview with Metal Icon Alice Cooper". Interview with Jeff Kerby, www.knac.com. September 22, 2005.

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• Economists tell us that the 'price' of an object and its 'value' have very little or nothing to do with one another. 'Value' is entirely subjective economic value, anyway while 'price' reflects whatever a buyer is willing to give up to get the object in question, and whatever the seller is willing to accept to give it up. Both are governed by the Law of Marginal Utility, which is actually a law of psychology, rather than economics. For government to attempt to dictate a 'fair price' betrays complete misunderstanding of the entire process.

  L. Neil Smith

  Giving Up, Government, Law

  "Ceres". Book by L. Neil Smith, 2009.

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• Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in Econ 101 textbooks; 2) as a tool of state aggrandizement, in which the private parties are stand-ins for governmental interests.

  Charles C. Mann

  Party, Two, Textbooks

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• The Apple iPad is not going to be the company's next runaway best seller. Not if the industry can help it... With the iPad, Apple may have irked it's somewhat new partner Intel Corp. Intel gets spanked by nobody.

  John C. Dvorak

  Apples, Ipads, May

  "The iPad faces industry backlash". www.marketwatch.com. February 12, 2010.

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• My favorite, favorite, favorite, and the greatest comedian that could ever exist if you could Frankenstein a comedian together, would be one part Richard Pryor, one part Peter Sellers. That would be the greatest comic actor.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Comedian, Together, Would Be

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world. A "best seller" is a celebrity among books. It is a book known primarily (sometimes exclusively) for its well-knownness.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Stars, Book, Reading

  Daniel J. Boorstin (1978). “The Image”

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• When I find a short-seller, I want to tear his heart out and eat it before his eyes while he is still alive.

  Richard S. Fuld, Jr.

  Heart, Eye, Tears

  "Can't work through stress? Tough luck if you are poor" by Catherine Bennett, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2013.

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• Eventually, as my books became best-sellers, the nickels pile up and one
  day I was offered a substantial four-book deal that was lucrative as any airliner hijacking in history. Though writing those four books was hard work, at least I didn't have to wear Kevlar body armor, carry heavy bandoliers of spare ammunition, or work with associates named Mad Dog.

  Dean Koontz

  Dog, Book, Hard Work

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• The White Queen in many ways it is representative of the sort of drama that I'm talking about. The books by Philippa Gregory were best sellers and they specifically told the story of history from the point of view of women.

  Colin Callender

  Queens, Drama, Book

  Source: deadline.com

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• Truth is the pearl without price. One cannot obtain truth by buying it-all you can do is to strive for spiritual truth and when one is ready, it will be given freely. Nor should spiritual truth be sold, lest the seller be injured spiritually. You lose any spiritual contact the moment you commercialize it. Those who have the truth would not be packaging and selling it, so anyone who is selling it, really does not possess it.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Doe, Packaging

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.30, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• There is only one recipe for a best seller and it is a very simple one. You have to get the reader to turn over the page.

  Ian Fleming

  Simple, Recipes, Pages

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• Tom Paine was a great American visionary. His book, Common Sense, sold a couple of hundred thousand copies in a population of four or five million. That means it was a best seller for years. People were thoughtful then. Hope is one thing. But you need to have hope with thought.

  Studs Terkel

  Couple, Book, Mean

  "What I've Learned: Studs Terkel" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 6, 2008.

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• Salesmanship consists of transferring a conviction by a seller to a buyer.

  Paul G. Hoffman

  Conviction, Buyers, Salesmanship

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• I try to write for highest common denominator. I don't write for dumb people. I figure if everybody doesn't get it, that's OK. Someone bright enough will get it, and that's who I write for. It's probably not the way to make million-sellers. What can I say? I won't apologize for trying to write for smart people.

  Paul Westerberg

  Smart, Writing, People

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• Every hour spent investigating a drug user or seller is an hour that could have been used to find a missing child.

  Randy Barnett

  Children, Missing, Drug

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• None of my books are best-sellers. In fact, the only thing that's kept me alive is the books that are in paperback. People find them, they like them, and they pass them on.

  James Purdy

  Book, People, Alive

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If partisanship makes us abandon intellectual honesty, if we oppose what our opponents say or do simply because they are the ones saying or doing it, we become mere political short-sellers, hoping for bad news because it's good for our ideological investment.

  Kurt Andersen

  Honesty, Political, Intellectual

  "When Good News Feels Bad". archive.frontpagemag.com. February 17, 2005.

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• I spent more time in America, but I developed a very English sense of humour. I clicked into it deeply with Peter Sellers, who is still probably my favourite comedian.

  Christopher Guest

  America, Comedian, Favourite

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worth of being saved.

  Piero Scaruffi

  Past, Thinking, Rocks

  "Beatles" by Piero Scaruffi, www.scaruffi.com.

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• If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.

  Camilla Lackberg

  New York, Thinking, Would Be

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• I take jobs with people I admire, people with incredible talent who aren't necessarily big sellers.

  Narada Michael Walden

  Jobs, People, Talent

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• In the twentieth century our highest praise is to call the Bible 'The World's Best Seller.' And it has come to be more and more difficult to say whether we think it is a best seller because it is great, or vice versa.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Bible, Thinking, Vices

  Daniel J. Boorstin (1962). “The Image or What Happened to the American Dream”

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• We're building a unique global platform...In the last 18 months we found that sellers and partners are interested in complementing their online and offline businesses with Amazon's platform

  Jeff Bezos

  Unique, Amazon, Lasts

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• There's been million-seller books and million-seller CDs. But there hasn't been, until now, million-seller art.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Art, Book, Cds

  "Thomas Kinkade: the secret life and strange death of art's king of twee" by Dan Glaister, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2012.

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