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Why would you want to sell millions of people on the illusion that they knew you, when they didn't?


Lionel Shriver

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CHRISTINE VARNEY People can sell you a lifestyle, a representation of who you want to be. People feel they are engage...
GIDEON YAGO And what do they want!?
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DANA BRUNETTI We want to get the biggest names we can. We want to pack Shriver, We want our speakers to pack Shriv...
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COLIN QUINN Don’t sell based on inventory. Inventory based on who you want to sell.

A lot of people...
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TIMOTHY FERRISS Make something people want and sell that, or be someone people need and sell you.
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ROB WELLS People want to help me. They want the best for me. I always say thank you to people when they try th...
PABLO SANDOVAL Why people become writers??
It's logical, they don't have what to do and they are bored and the...
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BILL CLINTON When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY When you get people like that, they mean business. You don't want to mess with them.
CHARLIE BROWN Maybe it's naive to say, but it almost seems like, in the past, people tried to sell you somethi...
TRACY CHAPMAN It makes you wonder, when they have so many problems, why they would let this fester the way they ha...
CAL JILLSON I would love to sell millions of records, but that's never gonna be the case.
BUZZ OSBORNE The players want to leave a legacy that they were tough. When they get out on the field they want th...
JIM HILL People can still smoke but they won't get any benefit from it. So, why would they want to?
HENRIK RASMUSSEN It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.
ERROL FLYNN Don’t sell based on inventory. Inventory based on who you want to sell.
RICHIE NORTON When you're working in Hollywood you have these actors who go to their trailers, they're getting pai...
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GORDON ATKINSON REMAIN ‪#‎YOU‬'!!!!
When people challenge you, they are already threatened by you..
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ABHA MARYADA BANERJEE If you dont love somebody, it gets annoying if they tell you what to do or what to feel. When you lo...
DONALD MILLER Why would you want someone who is conflicted and doesn't know if they love you or not?
ALEX MERAZ It all depends on what you want to do. Some people want to pay their bills online. Others feel they ...
JAMES SHELTON I want to inform people about the cruelty that goes on with the chicken they sell. I'm doing my best...
LAUREN JOHNSON When people don't know what they want to smoke, I like that. It's fun to sell. I like helping them f...
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SHANNON L. ALDER Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they...
G. WILLOW WILSON People will teach you how to sell them if you'll pay attention to the messages they send you.
SOURCE UNKNOWN It's when they want to silence you that you need to be louder! It's when they want to kill you that ...
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SIMON WIESENTHAL When you try rescuing someone and discover they can't be reached, why would you ever throw that back...
JAY ASHER You can definitely make them better. A couple of guys have gotten better already. You stay on top of...
JIM LEYLAND Having big audiences when you're on a book tour is like Valhalla if you're a person who used...
EILEEN MYLES We haven't really given people a reason why they would want to own one yet.
STEPHEN BAKER The same way i could live when I didnt know you, I can live without you after letting you go, But th...
DALEEN IRSHAID My job is to sell the Daily Express. My job isn't anything else. My job is to produce newspapers tha...
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GAIL DAVIDSON When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove y...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON America offers the most amount of people the best opportunity to pursue happiness on the planet. Tha...
BILL O'REILLY America offers the most amount of people the best opportunity to pursue happiness on the planet. Tha...
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DEBORAH STEVENSON I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people a...
JACK HORNER People always want to put a label on you; they always want to compare you to something.
CARROT TOP Yes, I sell people things they don't need. I can't, however, sell them something they don't want. Ev...
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ORSON SCOTT CARD Be SO AWESOME that when people are exposed to you, they want to BE AWESOME too!
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LIONEL MESSI Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.
LIONEL HAMPTON Today I am the happiest man in the world, my son was born and thanks to God for this gift.
LIONEL MESSI Whether it's a friendly match, or for points, or a final, or any game - I play the same. I'm...
LIONEL MESSI The post-war American newsroom resembled a vast factory churning out multiple editions through the n...
LIONEL BARBER Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond...
LIONEL HAMPTON I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it...
LIONEL RICHIE Our U.S. audience is composed of globally-minded Americans, an elite category, the ones who do have ...
LIONEL BARBER I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.
LIONEL JOSPIN It's not so easy for us when we play teams who have a different mindset, like Chelsea or Inter M...
LIONEL MESSI You cannot beat the feeling of sitting on top of the charts. I had almost forgotten what it feels li...
LIONEL RICHIE I had the pleasure of seeing a real goddess today. She was her own definition of beauty. She was mag...
LIONEL SUGGS My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of t...
LIONEL BLUE A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture ...
LIONEL TRILLING There's nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy and smiling child. I always help in any way ...
LIONEL MESSI I repeat what I always say: I want the best for Argentina in every way. I never try to make trouble ...
LIONEL MESSI I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I'd have to ...
LIONEL MESSI My guess is the great majority of teachers would welcome a system where innovation is embraced, wher...
LIONEL SOSA Be proud of your Latino culture and do the best work you can do, and you will always succeed.
LIONEL SOSA The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
LIONEL TRILLING I want to concentrate on winning things with Barcelona and Argentina. Then if people want to say nic...
LIONEL MESSI The truth is my idea has been to always stay at Barcelona and see out the rest of my career here. Li...
LIONEL MESSI I've never stopped being Argentine, and I've never wanted to. I feel very proud of being Arg...
LIONEL MESSI It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reitera...
LIONEL TRILLING