"Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in."

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"Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in."

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"The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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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."

Arthur Levitt, American Public Servant

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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."

David Knopfler, British Musician

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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."

Lawrence R. Klein, American Economist

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

P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian

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"With the players Madden is definitely king and that's probably why it's been one of the top selling games all these years and will probably continue to be."

Michael Strahan, American Athlete

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"Every one lives by selling something."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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

Robert Sheckley, American Author

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"And now, of course this is another thing I didn't count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling."

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

Terry Southern, American Writer

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"I've been wanting to go into music ever since I can remember. I mean even before I became an actor. I just thought it would be a tough field to break into, so I became an actor instead."

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"We were constantly moving to different countries and adjusting to new things. It was such a free feeling. I'm glad I didn't have a traditional upbringing."

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"Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people."

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"When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard."

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"I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity, my name is no longer my own."

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