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JOHN O'TOOLE I don't need to do a reality show to make my mark in this world.
NIECY NASH If you offshore, if you telecommute, if you do anything to minimize your company's physical real...
DYLAN TAYLOR I want to come back and do talk. I want to do late-night talk the right way. Arsenio ain't there...
MARK CURRY The first show last year was a big success. We decided to keep it around and see if we could do even...
LAURA BUKOWSKI Everyone said that if you want to be a real actor, go to New York. If you want to sell out, go to LA...
JENNIFER TILLY It's wonderful. I come every year to gain insight on what to do for my child.
KAREN FULTON Being a stand-up comic, this isn't a stepping-stone for me; it's what I do, and this is what...
BILL BURR Sell yourself first, if you want to sell anything.
BURT LANCASTER A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age,...
CLAUDE PEPPER A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, "At my a...
CLAUDE PEPPER A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, ''At my ag...
CLAUDE PEPPER Mark your calendar. Like every year at this time, we all get together and come down and we have a go...
KATHY MORGAN I will never again go to people under false pretenses even if it is to give them the Holy Bible. I w...
HENRY MILLER If you're going out to sell a new show,
SHAUN CASSIDY A lot of people who aren't parishioners or parents come out every year. It's a fun?filled day.
DEB TRINE I would be terrified if Bill Maher was like, 'Hey, do you want to come on the show?' I would...
CONSTANCE ZIMMER I have to be ready. I am going to do anything they want me to do here. I need to show them what I ca...
ALEX CINTRON If you're going out to sell a new show, ... how receptive the buyer is is going to be based on what ...
SHAUN CASSIDY Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is succe...
THOMAS ALVA EDISON The same way i could live when I didnt know you, I can live without you after letting you go, But th...
DALEEN IRSHAID We are a sell out every Valentine's. I had over 100 people by the first of the year.
LEBBY SALINAS If anything should happen, I would sell the property and start over.
JAY BIANCO I can't say I want to earn a particular award or sell a certain number of records, because even ...
CHANTAL KREVIAZUK Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
FRANZ KAFKA I find getting the first draft down to be the biggest challenge. Every word, every punctuation mark,...
CYNTHIA LEITICH SMITH I think it's fun for the kids. We look forward to it every year.
JANICE JOHNSON I want to get back here again real bad. I worked so hard this year to get here, but I will work even...
CALEB SIMONS I was in a drum-off, and I could've won a Mazda 6 if I would've won, ... But coach decided he'd get ...
ANTHONY JACKSON If you dont love somebody, it gets annoying if they tell you what to do or what to feel. When you lo...
DONALD MILLER They can assume anything they want. I'm not. I just told my wife yesterday that I need to have a goo...
GREG MADDUX I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every yea...
QUENTIN TARANTINO I suspect if I go to my houses to sell, they'll say the scavenger woman has come.
LALITA DABERIA I don't wanna sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't wanna sell anyth...
JOHN CUSACK Now that I'm more comfortable with the offense, I should be able to play more freely. Last year was ...
JAVON RINGER The tribes didn't send you a check and they sell the same things that I sell. Idaho and its citizens...
CHARLEY JONES Last year missing states wasn't that big a deal because I wasn't really going to do anything. To be ...
ALEX BEAN V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved on...
JESS C. SCOTT A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my...
CLAUDE PEPPER If I can learn as much as I can from these guys, and if I can come out of the year a lot more knowle...
JASON LUNDMARK Fun without sell gets nowhere but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.
LEO BURNETT Every year we've come to California, it's been raining. But we get all our practices in, and it's be...
DAVID THOMAS I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW It's good to be back even though I wasn't planning on doing this race initially. I was going to do a...
BILL REEVES It's good to be back even though I wasn't planning on doing this race initially. I was going to do a...
BILL REEVES My sophomore year I had a real bad sprained ankle and was out for a few games. Then last year I tore...
ARTEZ FOSTER Every time we come to Caracas, it's difficult to find a place to sell.
DANILO GARZEA Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.)
J.D. SALINGER Honestly, 'Parenthood' was not what I planned. I didn't plan to do another drama. I didn...
LAUREN GRAHAM [Last year's 4-14 mark was disappointing for Vernon-Verona-Sherrill and coach Frank Mitchell.] I exp...
FRANK MITCHELL I didnt like being reminded about how self-absorbed i was. I wanted to be over this, done with this....
DONALD MILLER We laugh if its real. Its a joke if isn't real. I don't laugh much in jokes, because I know they are...
EPHDAN I think pretty much every canceled show is going to make its way to DVD.
GORD LACEY I wanted to come out here and let people know how strong a skater I am. I'm excited about next year....
RYAN SHECKLER I'd do almost anything for love, within safe boundaries. I've flown to places to surprise pe...
BRITTANY MURPHY Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility ...
THOMAS A. EDISON They're getting the chance of a lifetime. It's not going to come along like this every year for them...
DALLAS DRAKE I don't claim to know how to sell anything. I'm a geek.
JOEL SILVER I'm prepared to do anything that's necessary to help us win, ... even if it means pitching every day...
MARIANO RIVERA I will try for a new mark in the remaining races this season. If I don't get it this year, then it i...
JUSTIN GATLIN I do not get offended if you insult me, laugh at me or even make fun of me. I am offended when you d...
SAMEH ELSAYED But, it was a popular show, and I knew everyone on it, so it was always fun to do.
WANDA JACKSON Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to...
KARL ROVE Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent
THOMAS ALVA EDISON [As for a return to South Jersey next year] Definitely, ... As long as my schedule allows it, I woul...
HEATHER MITTS it is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didnt
MARTIN VAN BUREN I stack heavy doe, sell out every show. It'll never die, we live and we gonna stay big time 'til it'...
P. DIDDY PUFF DADDY I stack heavy doe, sell out every show. It'll never die, we live and we gonna stay big time 'til it'...
P. DIDDY, PUFF DADDY They're a great group of guys. They have a real exciting show, fun, high-energy.
KEITH ANDERSON The band is going from strength to strength every day. 'Tis a difficult thing to suddenly come forth...
CARL BARAT I had to do good every day, every opportunity I had, to show that I could be a bench player. I could...
ROBERTO PETAGINE I think I'm prepared for every worst-case scenario. If I go second round, I'm prepared to do that . ...
KYLE LOWRY I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I've started a record label, so I get to nurture new ...
ELLEN DEGENERES I think that a good movie creates its own world, and that world needn't refer to anything that...
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN I don't know if I tried to sell myself. If anything, I tried just to be myself. I don't think you ca...
BARRY ROHRSSEN I don't come and fight for fun. I don't do that. I don't like to hurt people for fun.
NATE DIAZ My junior year, we played Fort Thomas in the championship game, and that was a lot of fun. I really ...
CLIFF THOMPSON I think you should come out and show some support for anything in the community.
KATHLEEN ROBERTS I do not want to occupy this position if someone else thinks he could do better. If there is a buyer...
MASSIMO MORATTI If I felt like a fish out of water in my family, I felt like a fish on Mars in Adam’s circle.
GAYLE FORMAN I meant it to be jokey, but it came out sounding bitter
GAYLE FORMAN I don’t sell spells, and I don’t sell tricks. I don’t carry illusions or marked cards or weigh...
BENEDICT JACKA I got a part as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn't re...
JAMES CAGNEY I wasn't a cheerleader or in the choir. I didnt have loads of friends.
GWEN STEFANI We would tour the West Coast every four or five years. And every time we would finish we'd say, that...
JOHN DOE Whether it's a chance to show your support for next year or to cheer your team into the finals, this...
DAVID GALLOP I watch the All-Star game every year. It's a fun game and I want to see what the guys are doing. I l...
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MARK TWAIN Lenders look at potential borrowers from many angles before extending credit: How much of its income...
MARK ZANDI Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the fe...
MARK KENNEDY There really isn't anything more refreshing then iced Coke out of the old-school glass bottles.
MARK ZUPAN Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God's right hand.' Her voice grew f...
MARK LAWRENCE Of all the various kinds of sexual intercourse, this has the least to recommend it. As an amusement,...
MARK TWAIN Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of t...
MARK TWAIN I brag on the Democratic Party. We're libertarian on social issues, it's live and let live. ...
MARK UDALL I am quite amazed how, when people earn lots of money, they think they have to spend it on things th...
MARK HADDON Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
MARK TWAIN Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.
MARK TWAIN We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.
MARK TWAIN As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected.
MARK RUTTE He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magi...
MARK RYDELL