"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators."

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"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators."

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"I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge."

George W. Bush, American President

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"But in terms of the code by which we go to market - it's not telling kids to supersize, we're not selling them, generally, products, in the advertising we do to them."

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"Writers are always selling somebody out."

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"During the early 1960s, I decided to supplement research support for quantitative economic studies at Pennsylvania by selling econometric forecasts to private and public sector buyers."

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"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."

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"I would sell 2 million records, a million went to teenagers and a million went to the adults. So, when The Beatles became so popular, I lost a million to the teenagers, but I was still selling a million to the adults."

Bobby Vinton, American Musician

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"I knew I was doing something right because it was selling so I didn't want to interfere with it."

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"Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors."

Ken Hill, British Playwright

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"Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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