Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes
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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.
Zac Brown Band -
I went and worked at a TV station in Stillwater. I was actually account manager for commercial accounts, selling ad space and everything.
Daniel Cormier -
American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
Barry Goldwater -
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.
J. B. Pritzker -
California is responsible for selling, trading and distributing large amounts of shark fins that come from all over the world.
Ted Danson -
MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
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I like my stationery to be funnier, like, 'Here's my note, and it's an elephant with a lady smoking a cigarette on top.'
Kate Spade -
The first comic I ever read was an 'X-Men' themed anti-smoking PSA they gave out in health class when I was about 10.
G. Willow Wilson -
If I didn't have children I might be more of a lush than I am. I like booze. I struggle with smoking. And I'm a big swearer. I'm trying to rein it in but I do think it's a nice seasoning of language.
Olivia Colman -
I've done everything. Selling door-to-door fire extinguishers... In bars, I used to repair those machines that have 10 different buttons on them to spray club soda and seltzer.
J. B. Smoove -
I'm about as healthy as a person can be. I quit smoking seven or eight years ago.
Karen Allen -
We have not had any disagreements about clothes, smoking or L'Wren, and this is all very hurtful for her... It is completely untrue to say that L'Wren has caused a rift between myself and the rest of the band. This is all nonsense, everyone has their own style.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
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There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies.
Joe Eszterhas -
If I start going back to church, I'd have to stop the smoking and drinking, and I wouldn't be able to curse any more.
Katherine Heigl -
Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.
David Hockney -
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
Mark Twain -
Anything that has a relationship with pleasure, we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about AIDS; you talk about smoking, they talk about cancer. It's a very sick society that rejects pleasure.
Marjane Satrapi -
Since the music industry cracked and fell apart, gasping for the cash flow it had come to expect, much re-thinking has been the order of the day. It is a fine time to be a musician. Like walking through Sodom and Gomorrah while it is still smoking, on your way to the next gig.
Jane Siberry
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You're not going out there to make a living out of it by selling records. You want acclaim and you want to know people are listening.
Kevin Drew Broken Social Scene -
It was a downriver 10-K in the mouth of the Amazon. I won in an hour and 20 minutes. It has to be one of the fastest times ever swum. The race director said there were no piranhas in that part of the Amazon. The water was too dirty.
Mark Warkentin -
I think CGI is interesting, but it's too expensive and limiting in terms of what you can do shot-by-shot.
Ben Wheatley -
Han Solo has always been - and I think for a lot of people, too - this iconic character who's the absolute definition of cool.
Marjorie Liu -
The 2nd of April (1891) at 9:45 a.m. Max Ernst had his first contact with the sensible world, when he came out of the egg which his mother had laid in an eagle's nest and which the bird had brooded for seven years.
Max Ernst -
Hip-Hop went from selling crack to smoking it
Yasiin Bey Black Star