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P. J. O'Rourke

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

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

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"Oh yeah - for sure - hardly a week doesn't go by when I don't hear something wonderful that someone has made in some low-budget situation, primarily with a view to selling a few hundred copies at their concerts."

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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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"I was studying acting, going to UCLA, selling real estate on the weekends."

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"Actually, we got signed in November of 2000 with Dreamworks which is the most amazing label. We have friends on other labels and though we are not selling millions of records, yet, they treat us with tons of respect and give us some very good guidance."

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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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"Grossing Out dealt with the western nations selling arms to the Third World and exploiting these countries."

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"After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather."

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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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