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• When the painting is hanging on your wall for a long time, you don't notice it. You get tired of it, even if it's a Picasso. When the next generation inherits the painting, they sell it. I don't want to be sold.

  Julio Iglesias

  Wall, Tired, Long

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

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• Michael Jordan didn’t become a great basketball player because he wanted to do product endorsements. Van Gogh didn’t become a great painter because he dreamed that one day his paintings would sell for $50 million.

  Jack D. Schwager

  Basketball, Player, One Day

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• Nobody's going to sell 10 million records by not working hard.

  Daryl Hall

  Records, Hard, Millions

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• Those smutty books sell because women wish their husbands had half the balls the men in those books do.

  Tara Brown

  Husband, Book, Men

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• It's important for me to sell a product that works.

  Billy Mays

  Important, Products

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

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• It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste.

  Earl Sweatshirt

  Would Be, Records, Want

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• We don't always endorse what businesses sell through Stripe, but we do think it's critical that we and our peers don't act as gatekeepers for what is and isn't acceptable content.

  Patrick Collison

  Thinking, Stripes, Peers

  "Stripe Says It's Processing Payments For 'The Interview' In The Name Of Online Freedom" by Jillian D'Onfro, www.businessinsider.com. December 24, 2014.

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• Originally marriage meant the sale of a woman by one man to another; now most women sell themselves though they have no intention of delivering the goods listed in the bill of sale.

  Robert Graves

  Marriage, Men, Bills

  Robert Graves (1965). “Mammon and the black goddess”

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• My girlfriend is a fashion designer. She has her own company called Rachel Antonoff. She is doing a collaboration with Urban Outfitters right now, a shoe collaboration with Bass. She sells to Barneys, stuff like that.

  Nate Ruess

  Fashion, Girlfriend, Shoes

  "Fun's Nate Ruess on Black Tie and Band Fashion". Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. May 29, 2012.

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• The ordinary run of advertising is nothing more than an effort to sell something by yelling in print.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Running, Yelling, Effort

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (2015). “Average Jones”, p.5, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time.

  Ann Romney

  Jobs, Byu, Littles

  "Romney hasn't earned our trust" By LZ Granderson, www.cnn.com. September 12, 2012.

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• They were not easy years. You have to understand, I was raised in a lovely neighborhood, as was Mitt, and at BYU, we moved into a $62-a-month basement apartment with a cement floor and lived there two years as students with no income... Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time.

  Ann Romney

  Jobs, Years, Byu

  "Mitt Romney: ‘95% Of Life Is Set Up For You If You’re Born In This Country’" by Ryan Grim, Arthur Delaney, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2012.

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• Bull markets are born on pessimism, grown on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria. The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy, and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell.

  John Templeton

  Optimism, Investing, Bulls

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• Successful stocks don't tell you when to sell. When you feel like bragging, it's probably time to sell.

  John Neff

  Successful, Bragging, Feels

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• An awful lot of people keep a stock too long because it gives them warm fuzzies – particularly when a contrarian stance has been vindicated. If they sell it, they lose bragging rights.

  John Neff

  Rights, Long, People

  "John Neff on Investing". Book by John Neff, October 22, 1999.

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• Buy on the cannons and sell on the trumpets.

  John Neff

  Trumpets, Cannons

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• The general public believes that if a health claim is on the label the government backs that up, ... This sells food products, no question.

  Marion Nestle

  Believe, Government, Labels

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• If you like eating meat but want to eat ethically, this is the book for you. From the hard-headed, clear-eyed, and sympathetic perspective of butchers who care deeply about the animals whose parts they sell, the customers who buy their meats, and the pleasures of eating, this book has much to teach. It’s an instant classic, making it clear why meat is part of the food revolution. I see it as the new Bible of meat aficionados and worth reading by all food lovers, meat-eating and not.

  Marion Nestle

  Reading, Book, Animal

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• Over the past two decades the pharmaceutical industry has moved very far from its original high purpose of discovering and producing useful new drugs. Now primarily a marketing machine to sell drugs of dubious benefit, this industry uses its wealth and power to co-opt every institution that might stand in its way, including the US Congress, the FDA, academic medical centers, and the medical profession itself.

  Marcia Angell

  Past, Fda, Two

  "The Truth About the Drug Companies". www.nybooks.com. July 15, 2004.

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• I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around.

  Eric Avery

  Bucks, Way, Firsts

  "Eric Avery joins Addiction for NME Awards" by Jonathan Cohen, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 16, 2008.

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• The vocals are what immediately draw people in and sell the song.

  Jerry Harrison

  Song, People, Draws

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• You know, who tells the stories of a culture really governs human behavior. It used to be the parent, the school, the church, the community. Now it's a handful of global conglomerates that have nothing to tell, but a great deal to sell.

  George Gerbner

  School, Parenting, Community

  "George Gerbner, 86; Educator Researched the Influence of TV Viewing on Perceptions" by Myrna Oliver, articles.latimes.com. December 29, 2005.

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• You have to tell a story before you can sell a story.

  Beth Comstock

  Stories

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• I want to sell out arenas and make an album and work with some of the best artists in the world.

  Niall Horan

  Artist, Arena, Albums

  "One Direction: Everything You Need To Know From A To Zayn" By Kiki Von Glinow, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2012.

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• There’s nothing that you can sell me that can make me happy.

  Jon Foreman

  Make Me Happy

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