Selling Quotes - Page 10

• [the downfall of our political system is the] buying and selling of politicians...bribery. In the private sector, you're arrested for it. In the public sector, it's the norm.

  Jesse Ventura

  Political, Buying, Politician

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• The guy that picked me up at the airport in 1985 when I was out in L.A. for my first audition was selling a script. I was a nobody coming off a plane to read for a new show.

  Scott Bakula

  Airports, Guy, Scripts

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• I'm not interested in the ego trip of creating or not creating. I'm interested in selling a magazine. Rock-bottom, I sell magazines. I'm a thorough professional who does his job.

  Jack Kirby

  Jobs, Rocks, Creating

  Interview with Leonard Pitts, Jr., kirbymuseum.org. 1986/7.

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• I used to play for 200 people and now I'm selling out places that hold 16,000 people. It's a big change, and it's so cool to see people out there screaming the words to songs that I wrote. It just really reassures me that what I'm doing is working, and it really boosts my confidence, as far as on stage as a performer and a writer.

  Miranda Lambert

  Song, Play, People

  Source: www.today.com

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• ISIS simply do not have ideological, theological, or popular support. And this is a criminal organization that is funding their criminality with things like drug trade and selling oil.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Isis, Organization, Oil

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• When I wasn't killing time in school, I was sparring in the gym or selling crack on the strip.

  Curtis Jackson

  School, Cracks, Killing

  "50 Cent Is Being Called A Child Abuser For Boxing With His Son" by Delenda Joseph, uproxx.com. December 17, 2016.

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• You can't make money without selling something real. You can't make something real without first imagination manifesting itself in your head. You can't have imagination without surrendering yourself to an idea that you want to create something of value to other human beings.

  James Altucher

  Real, Ideas, Imagination

  "10 Reasons To Quit Your Job This Year" by James Altucher, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2013.

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• I don't care at all about the mainstream; I don't care about popularity contests; I don't care about who's got the biggest-selling album; and I don't care about glossy production.

  Phil Anselmo

  Albums, Care, Popularity

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

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• I've done everything from cater, wait tables, pre-school teacher, painting, to being Cinderella, Elmo, a clown, nanny, selling hair... I would do kid's parties and entertain and do magic and paint faces and balloon animals. The highlight of my life.

  Diora Baird

  Teacher, Party, School

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• Records are one thing, and obviously, without hit songs, you don't have the opportunity to do your shows. But my live show has always been my selling tool.

  Jason Aldean

  Song, Opportunity, Tools

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• Before the Civil War, the Southern states were selling a lot of cotton to England and didn't seem to mind British occupation. By and large, the Revolutionary War wasn't at all great for business.

  Henry Rollins

  War, Southern, Mind

  "Professional Rebelling in 'Sweet Home Alabama,' I Coming Soon!" by Henry Rollins, digitalissue.laweekly.com. March 15, 2012.

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• If you have a choice of selling shoes to ladies or giving birth to a flaming porcupine... look into that second, less painful career.

  Richard Jeni

  Careers, Shoes, Giving

  "Platypus Man". Comedy TV Series, 1995.

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• The Democrats are very bad at selling their own product. The Republicans are geniuses at it. And I've said it before, a bad product well apologized for is superior in this country to a good product.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Democracy, Genius

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. September 14, 2010.

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• The other guys are selling certainty. Not me. I'm on the corner with doubt.

  Bill Maher

  Guy, Doubt, Certainty

  "Religulous". www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• My first job as a kid was going from door to door selling Christmas cards, to raise money for my grandmother's hip replacement. Because, you know... You break it, you buy it.

  Emo Philips

  Jobs, Kids, Grandmother

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• Well! I feel happy these days. I've started taking a herbal anti-depressant. It's called Saint John's Wort. Apparently it's the best-selling anti-depressant in many places. It's the most popular anti-depressant in Germany... After, I'm guessing, amnesia.

  Emo Philips

  Germany, Saint, Guessing

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• Images are no longer what they used to be. They can't be trusted any more. We all know that. You know that. When we grew up, images were telling stories and showing them. Now they're all into selling. They've changed under our very eyes. They don't even know how to do it anymore. They've plain forgotten. Images are selling out the world. And at a big discount.

  Wim Wenders

  Eye, World, Telling Stories

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• It wasn't that I amassed it with aims of selling it and becoming a rich man. My personality demanded that I be surrounded by the best examples of the world's art.

  Hermann Goring

  Art, Men, Personality

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• Britney Spears' album Blackout is one of the hottest-selling CDs in the country. We're in a bad place, people: The world is melting, we're at war, and Two and a Half Men is a huge hit.

  Chelsea Handler

  Country, War, Men

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• I just started to do my own thing for about a year and a half, and I worked in the evening selling phonograph records. Then I said to myself, "I'm afraid I have to go to New York after all."

  Claes Oldenburg

  New York, Years, Records

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We've never had a situation where mass media has been so censored, at least in my lifetime. When I was younger, networks like NBC, CBS, were independently owned, and took their jobs as journalists seriously. There used to be documentaries like "The Selling of the Pentagon."

  Jello Biafra

  Jobs, Nbc, Media

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• People nowadays interchange gifts and favors out of friendship, but buying and selling is considered absolutely inconsistent with the mutual benevolence which should prevail between citizens and the sense of community of interest which supports our social system. According to our ideas, buying and selling is essentially anti-social in all its tendencies. It is an education in self-seeking at the expense of others, and no society whose citizens are trained in such a school can possibly rise above a very low grade of civilization

  Edward Bellamy

  School, Self, Civilization

  Edward Bellamy (2000). “Looking Backward: From 2000 to 1887”, p.57, Applewood Books

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• I'd go back, yeah. I don't care, I got a kid, man - I'll sell tampons. I mean, there's no selling-out once you get a kid. I got a kid.

  Jay Mohr

  Mean, Kids, Men

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• If you're selling something on Craiglist, it's never a good idea to end the description with, May have lice.

  Dana Gould

  Ideas, Lice, May

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• If Elvis is alive, Tupac is alive. I saw Tupac on 46th Street selling Biggie t-shirts 2 for 10 dollars.

  Donnell Rawlings

  Biggie, Saws, Dollars

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