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ANDREW COLLINS J. P. Morgan. He was kind of a douche.
T. J. MILLER If I were to be asked to be a model selling clothes, it would be worth millions of dollars,
DUSTIN HOFFMAN When you are investing in J. P. Morgan,
BRAD HINTZ I was looking for a name with an old English sound, very easy to pronounce in every language and eas...
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JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER If voting could really change things, it would be illegal.
UNKNOWN If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
NORMAN RALPH AUGUSTINE If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
NORMAN AUGUSTINE If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
JAMES MADISON humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of r...
JOHN PIPER The Court of Appeals decision pretty much made it impossible for the government to prevail, ... The ...
CHARLES RULE Selling my soul would be a lot easier if I could just find it.
NIKKI SIXX What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, n...
JAMES MADISON We are shipping between 55,000 and 60,000 pounds of high-quality beef weekly to Japan. We are dilige...
BRUCE BERVEN If they lose their legal basis for owning a .cn domain, google.cn would cease to exist, or if it con...
REBECCA MACKINNON If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be bl...
MARGARET MEAD You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, wher...
ALAN ALDA If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external...
JAMES MADISON If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.
GARY JOHNSON Clearly, when she began selling these on eBay to us, she knew it was illegal.
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KIN HUBBARD Government regulations allow a product to be labeled trans-fat-free if it contains less than half a ...
LINDA GREENE One thing i don't understand is sex is legal and selling things is legal but selling sex is illegal.
GEORGE CARLIN They were obviously illegal. It should be a subject of this investigation.
BUD SELIG Although demand was about what we expected during the quarter, the average selling prices for our DR...
JIMMY LEE This country would not be a land of opportunity, America could not be America, if the people were sh...
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JON FELTHEIMER It may be a reflection on human nature that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses o...
JAMES MADISON You can't be selling a consumer product and not be publicly responsive to questions about a high-pro...
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DIANA SANCHEZ She botched the job of selling the cuts. People were left wondering if just the better-off would ben...
BERND WEIDENSTEINER The governments continuing refusal to negotiate is proof that these illegal regulations were desig...
COLLEEN KELLEY You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make ...
RICHARD CURTIS I would expect the next chapter in this story to be the abandonment of the deal by J&J. For J&J I th...
ELI KAMMERMAN Typically, outside of churches there would be people selling religious souvenirs. There would be som...
MARTHA J. EGAN If J&J is not willing to up their bid, I think Guidant will be going to Boston Scientific.
DEBBIE WANG The only thing my father does that isn’t illegal is breathe. He’s a criminal through and through...
LEIGH OSMOND If you would try to implement RFID on every product everywhere you sold it, it could be very expensi...
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BOB WATTERS The best minds in government? If any were, business would hire them away.
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KEVIN O'LEARY Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it.
DEYTH BANGER Go against the tide and sell a product that no one else is selling.
FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS It would be cool if it were a better color.
JUSTIN CHILDERS Amazon is not a monopoly or a monopsony, and even if it were, that by itself isn't illegal.
J. A. KONRATH Ford can't sell trucks currently, and GM is not selling as many cars as it would like to. That is a ...
PAUL TAYLOR I love J. K. Rowling. If I could meet any person, I would meet her.
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EVO MORALES The Office of the Police Commissioner has confirmed that smacking would be illegal if section 59 is ...
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JAKOB EDBERG Lotteries are like any other business that are selling a product -- they have to advertise.
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JAMES SOONG The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
RONALD REAGAN The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
RONALD REAGAN If any of those prove to be effective, the soonest a product would be available is probably about fi...
ANNA FORBES I have too much product, and I'm trying to rein it in and sell more of my main collection. I wis...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD They were being nickel-and-dimed by J&J. They had to get out of that loop.
JAN WALD It would be devastating. It is their biggest product by far.
AL RAUCH Since emigration to Mexico was illegal and carried out without government permission, the immigrants...
WAYNE PATTERSON Since emigration to Mexico was illegal and carried out without government permission, the immigrants...
WAYNE PATTERSON It's really no different than selling insurance. If anybody should be in the business of selling put...
BOB GORDON The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them right away.
RONALD REAGAN Seventy million with a solid product portfolio and with the right average selling price is our goal.
JUNO CHO If the surviving company is French, it won't be eligible for the S&P 500 index.
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GARY F EVANS... My chief responsibilities have been described as soliciting and procuring. The illegal variety would...
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BILL LOWE If it were easy it would not be any fun.
T JAY TAYLOR Both of them have tremendous power. But it's my opinion Bonds shouldn't even be in the game today. H...
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THOMAS SOWELL If life were easy, then it would be boring.
CHARLES BECK if he were not here, it would be easier.
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P. J. O'ROURKE You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don'...
P. J. O'ROURKE The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim...
P. J. O'ROURKE Northwest Ohio is flat. There isn't much up. The land is so flat that a child from Toledo is und...
P. J. O'ROURKE The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
P. J. O'ROURKE A fundamental American question is, 'What's the big idea?'
P. J. O'ROURKE Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the sche...
P. J. O'ROURKE Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
P. J. O'ROURKE If I were a congressman who had voted for the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, I'd claim it w...
P. J. O'ROURKE The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them...
P. J. O'ROURKE Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
P. J. O'ROURKE I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bl...
P. J. O'ROURKE Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway inste...
P. J. O'ROURKE Kids are disorganized.
P. J. O'ROURKE People say free trade causes dislocation. In actual fact, it's the lowering of trade barriers th...
P. J. O'ROURKE Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.
P. J. O'ROURKE Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
J P DONLEAVY Inside every Sancho Panza there's a Don Quixote struggling to get out.
P. J. O'ROURKE Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino's box.
P. J. O'ROURKE In Hong Kong there is agglomeration beyond my fondest imaginings. The Kowloon district claims a popu...
P. J. O'ROURKE There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change - or whatever the currently ...
P. J. O'ROURKE Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. I...
P. J. O'ROURKE The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and ...
P. J. O'ROURKE Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one ...
P. J. O'ROURKE Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the Dist...
P. J. O'ROURKE It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with...
P. J. O'ROURKE I'm too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom's earring in h...
P. J. O'ROURKE Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.
P. J. O'ROURKE Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefull...
P. J. O'ROURKE I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a learning experience. Then again, I like to think ...
P. J. O'ROURKE The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display e...
P. J. O'ROURKE There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-...
P. J. O'ROURKE With Epcot Center the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today...
P. J. O'ROURKE When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are le...
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