Quotes with device-selling

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  • Beeban Kidron From the moment I went to Hollywood for the first time, I was accused by various people of selling out. So I feel I've done my sell-out films already. I've sold everything! I've sold every piece of soul I ever had!
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz Hedge fund managers charge so much more than mutual fund managers; alpha is even harder to come by. They end up selling a variety of things beyond mere outperformance.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Bobby Vinton Hey, we've all been to high school We've seen the in-crowds. Most of us have been in the outer crowds, the people who weren't in. Although I was never in, I was selling records and was very happy.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Jean Paul Getty I buy when other people are selling.
    Jean Paul Getty
    American-born British industrialist, founder of Getty Oil Company (1892 - 1976)
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  • P. D. James I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?
    P. D. James
    English crime writer (1920 - 2014)
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  • Buzz Aldrin I have no intention of selling any more of the historical Apollo 11 items in my possession for the remainder of my life. I intend to pass a portion of these items on to my children and to loan the most important items for permanent display in suitable museums around the country.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Ann Patchett I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.
    Ann Patchett
    American author (1963 - )
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  • Arthur Levitt I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that.
    Arthur Levitt
    American SEC chairman (1931 - )
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  • Benny Goodman If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.
    Benny Goodman
    American jazz clarinetist and bandleader (1909 - 1986)
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  • H. Youngman If my mother knew I did this for a living, she'd kill me. She thinks I'm selling dope.
    H. Youngman
    American comedian and violinist (1906 - 1998)
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  • Aaron C. Brown If you want to understand financial markets, and their effects on the economy, you have to understand the trading game. Many short-term price movements are neither random nor caused by economic fundamentals. They're caused by investors buying and selling.
    The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006) Ch. 1
    Aaron C. Brown
    American finance practitioner (1956 - )
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  • Tony Alessandra In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis is malpractice.
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  • Carolyn McCarthy It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked.
    Carolyn McCarthy
    American nurse and politician (1944 - )
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  • Anthony Trollope It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Armistead Maupin It may interest you to know that my breakup with Terry and this mystery did not happen concurrently in real life. That is a writer's device, which places Gabriel under even greater pressure when the mystery begins to reveal itself.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Bill Paxton It's easy to get jaded. It's easy to get lazy. It's easy to get too self-centric, like, 'Why me? What about my needs?' It has nothing to do with that. But you see, you are the thing you are selling whether you are a director or an actor in this business. It's very tough. The town doesn't realize that its greatest resource is its people.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Billy Crudup It's not that I don't want to be famous. It's just that I don't feel like the burden of responsibility on selling a film should be on the actors.
    Billy Crudup
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • Lord George Byron Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bruce Coville Like most people, I was not able to start selling my stories right away. So I had many other jobs along the way to becoming a writer, including toy maker, gravedigger, cookware salesman, and assembly line worker. Eventually, I became an elementary teacher and worked with second and fourth graders.
    Bruce Coville
    American author (1950 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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