Quotes with device-selling

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  • Lewis H. Lapham More than illness or death, the American journalist fears standing alone against the whim of his owners or the prejudices of his audience. Deprive William Safire of the insignia of the New York Times, and he would have a hard time selling his truths to a weekly broadsheet in suburban Duluth.
    Lewis H. Lapham
    American essayist and editor (1935 - )
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  • Billy Idol My dad was one of the reasons I got into rock and roll, because I was learning the ropes of his business, which was selling powertools, and I was looking for a way out from under his heel. I was like, 'Where's the fun? Where's the glamour?'
    Billy Idol
    English musician, singer, songwriter, and actor (1955 - )
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  • Aaron Klug My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.
    Aaron Klug
    British biophysicist (1926 - 2018)
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  • Bill Bailey My first job was selling doors, door to door. That's a tough job isn't it? Bing Bong; Hello, can I interest you in a- oh shit you've got one already haven't you? Well never mind...
    Part Troll
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Newspaper: A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Boman Irani Nothing was planned in my career. I just went with the flow and took everything that came to me. Selling potato chips was obvious, as it was a family business. When friends suggested I should try theatre, I gave it a shot. Then I did a lot of advertisements, and then movies happened.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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  • Ad Reinhardt Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.
    Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt
    Ad Reinhardt
    American abstract painter (1913 - 1967)
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  • Harold Rosenberg Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause, it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.
    Harold Rosenberg
    American art criticus, writer (1906 - 1978)
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  • Andy Hertzfeld People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well.
    Andy Hertzfeld
    American software engineer and innovator (1953 - )
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  • J. G. Ballard Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • B. Kevin Turner Phones remain a critical component of the Microsoft device portfolio and an important piece of our mobility strategy, but a restructuring is in order.
    B. Kevin Turner
    American businessman (1965 - )
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  • Carey Mulligan Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's like we're saying, 'Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We're available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!
    Carey Mulligan
    English actress (1985 - )
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  • Carey Mulligan Posing on the red carpet feels like you're selling something that has nothing to do with you. If you do it with someone else, it's like we're saying, 'Oh! We come as a pair! Would you like to buy both of us? We're available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs!'
    Carey Mulligan
    English actress (1985 - )
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  • Sir Arthur Helps Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
    Sir Arthur Helps
    English writer and dean of the Privy Council (1813 - 1875)
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  • Zig Ziglar Selling is essentially a transfer of feelings.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Bono Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht Sometimes I have visions of myself driving through hell, selling sulphur and brimstone, or through heaven peddling refreshments to the roaming souls. If me and the children I've got left could find a place where there's no shooting, I wouldn't mind a few years of peace and quiet.
    Mother Courage and Her Children Mother Courage
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Bob Barr The average American returning from a trip abroad likely - and understandably - assumes the contents of his or her electronic device does not come close to meeting the threshold of 'criminal' activity, such as would give a government agent the right to seize and peruse their iPad just because they are returning from a vacation.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Brooks Atkinson The cocktail party... is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en masse or for making overtures toward more serious social relationships, as in the etiquette of whoring.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Aldous Huxley The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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