Tickets Quotes - Page 5

• Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, 'You play blues. That music is so sad.' I gave them tickets to the show, and they came up afterwards and said, 'You didn't play one sad song.'

  Buddy Guy

  Song, Couple, Play

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• I'm an entertainer. If people are paying good money for tickets they deserve the best show they can see. I don't get into lighting stuff on fire, but I do believe in going the extra mile.

  Bryan White

  Money, Believe, Fire

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• Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Winning, Ninety Nine, Ideas

  "Rebuilding the rubble" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2002.

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• I think anti-Semitism is the meal ticket of the organizations that fight it.

  Arthur Hertzberg

  Fighting, Thinking, Organization

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• I won't apologize for ticket prices. I think we're well worth it. We consider ourselves in the elite touring acts, like the Stones, Elton John, Paul McCartney.

  Glenn Frey

  Apology, Thinking, Stones

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• Why is it good for football to take the excitement away from fans by overcharging them for tickets to see their team?

  Sepp Blatter

  Football, Team, Fans

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• Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.

  Douglas Coupland

  Desperation, Lottery Ticket, Lottery

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• Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

  Mary Schmich

  Book, Reading, Discounts

  "Now Boarding At Any Newspaper, Magazine Or Book". articles.chicagotribune.com. October 28, 1998.

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• I don't go on set with an army of people because the most expensive elements of a movie production are the plane tickets, the hotel rooms, food and gasoline. If you're willing to discover new colleagues in the place that you are, you can save a ton of money.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Army, People, Elements

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• Most political journalists come to Washington because they're snappy writers, big thinkers, or news breakers. Me? My ticket to the big leagues had little to do with talent. It was mostly about the governor I was covering, Bill Clinton.

  Ron Fournier

  League, Political, Covering

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• You think I'm going to ask these sweet 14 year olds to ask their parents to buy a $100 ticket then run around in latex and lip sync? No way.

  Lady Gaga

  Running, Sweet, Thinking

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• Well, I think that when I perform on the road I always thank the audience for buying a ticket because it's a big deal to buy a ticket for a live entertainment, get a baby-sitter and pay for the meal, the parking, whatever.

  Kathy Griffin

  Baby, Thinking, Entertainment

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• I am a season ticket holder to Dodger games. I go to every Dodger game I can go to. Every single one.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Games, Dodgers, Seasons

  "Shia LaBeouf and Jon Heder Interview - SURF'S UP". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. June 5, 2007.

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• I have always advocated doing everything possible to pay off credit card balances; it's good financial management and the ticket to a strong FICO credit score.

  Suze Orman

  Strong, Balance, Cards

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• I think certainly after every show I headline, I will be available to the fans. When I'm headlining a show, I don't walk off stage. I'll walk to the front of the stage and sign hats and shirts and tickets for 15 to 30 minutes, until everyone has everything signed.

  Luke Bryan

  Thinking, Hats, Fans

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• When Governor Romney asked me to join the ticket, I said, 'Let's get this done' - and that is exactly, what we're going to do.

  Paul Ryan

  Done, Said, Governors

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• The people of Wisconsin have been good to me. I've tried to live up to their trust. And now I ask those hardworking men and women, and millions like them across America, to join our cause and get this country working again. When Governor Romney asked me to join the ticket, I said, 'Let's get this done' - and that is exactly, what we're going to do.

  Paul Ryan

  Country, Men, America

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• He looked like someone with a steerage ticket on the titanic. Somebody who'd be standing in line at Ellis Island. Undiluted and old-blooded. Also cute.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Cute, Islands, Lines

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection”, p.322, St. Martin's Griffin

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• My God, it was like the Emerald City, and as you got closer you'd pick up your pace, and you'd give your tickets and go charging inside.

  Joe Flaherty

  Baseball, Cities, Giving

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• A lot of people in the movie industry tend to run and hide from it like ostriches. Movie industry people are definitely in denial right now, but you do become desensitized to violence when you see it on the screen so often. Let's face it, violence exists for one reason in movies, and that's to get an effect, create an emotion, sell tickets. - on the link between movies and school violence.

  Madeleine Stowe

  Running, School, Ostriches

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• The greatest threat now is a 9/11 occurring with a group of terrorists armed not with airline tickets and box cutters, but with a nuclear weapon in the middle of one of our own cities...there's a high probability of such an attempt.

  Dick Cheney

  Cities, Groups, Nuclear

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• Every time you buy tickets on Ticketmaster, you help to digitize a book.

  Luis von Ahn

  Book, Technology, Helping

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• ... I just want to remind the owners and the players: you guys make money because you have a whole bunch of fans out there who are working really hard. They buy tickets. They're watching on TV. Ya'll should be able to figure this out. Get this done.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hockey

  "NHL lockout: will there even be a season?" by Colin Horgan, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2012.

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• I just bought a Lambourghini, I'm not even into racing with a windshield full of tickets cause I live right by the station.

  Drake

  Humble, Car, Racing

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• Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Car, Pay

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.139, Harvard University Press

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