William Petty Quotes
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For a deeper interest in the Moon than I ever felt before.
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The Southern Ground warehouse is rocking and rolling in Atlanta, with a T-shirt shop and a leather shop; everything we're selling at our shows we're making or publishing ourselves.
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The lens of contract focuses predominantly on gains from trade whereas orthodoxy is focused on resource allocation.
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I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.
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I went and worked at a TV station in Stillwater. I was actually account manager for commercial accounts, selling ad space and everything.
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Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade.
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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.
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Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.
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I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.
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One out of three jobs in Washington is tied to trade.
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Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.
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I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.
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MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.
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If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
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I've spent more money on my theatres since I bought them than I did buying them.
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I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.
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From the very beginning, I envisioned success as selling enough books so I could keep getting published and continue to write what I wanted to without compromising.
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Selling your apartment in New York is like dating a manic-depressive.. you get used to cycles of elation and despondency. Every time someone would come to see the apartment, there was the thrill of the date. You want to be presentable, so you clean the place up, make sure it smells good, put on some mood lighting and mellow music.
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There is something evocative about the idea of destruction. This act of destruction is the expression of an idea... that what we call reality is not real at all. When I draw a head, for example, I immediately feel an urge to destroy it, to erase it, because the drawing only captures an outward appearance, and for me the vital issue is what lies behind the visual form of the head.
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I think most politicians think most musicians are drug addicts or ‘not an exemplary part of society, so why should they worry about putting in legislation to help that industry when they can help another industry? So, I don’t think there’s a way out, the worst thing that ever happened was the invention of the CD, because a CD is an exact copy of a master recording!
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With the Holocaust - I wonder if a lot of Jewish writers of my generation have felt this way - it feels really intimidating to approach it. I feel like so many writers who have either lived through it firsthand or were part of that generation where they were closer to the people who were in it have written so beautifully about it, so there's no lack of great books about it
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The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange.
