We've sold more than 60,000 tickets, so after we get all the bands and other non-ticketed folks in, we'll be close to capacity. We will definitely sell out.
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Related We've already sold more than one-third of the tickets as of today. We will sell them until we run ou... KATHY SHINKLE The King poles surrounding the circus ring move slightly further out to accommodate the new height. ... FRED HUNTER I think we looked at it from the aspect that this would be more beneficial to the charities. They wo... JEFF NOBERS We have reviewed the whole incident and, starting immediately, entrances to fetes will be kept free ... WINSTON COOPER The community sold itself out for $60,000. GREG BELL We might actually sell out of Magnolia tickets, which has never happened before. We have 570 tickets... PATTY WILLIAMS March sales definitely exceeded all expectations and for the first time ever, total sales including ... BRAND PRETORIUS All the tickets are sold, it's going to be noisy, the atmosphere will be pretty hot. MARIO ANCIC We were the first ones here and were here three hours by ourselves. I love the fact that we are firs... JOSEPH WEST I'm sure we will also serve dinner as well, so we will close soon after that. LAURA ANDERSON As it has sold into more markets than any other format and has so many episodes, Millionaire definit... DANIEL SCHMITT It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different b... ARTO LINDSAY That's definitely encouraging that we've got all five starters and so many other players coming back... FREDDY ROBINSON We never had any expectations for our first album, so I don't know why we should start now. We hope ... JT WOODRUFF Two out of 10 Expeditions we sell are sold in Texas. That's a good reason. It shows them we care abo... CISCO CODINA Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the... THOMAS HARDY We have sold more than 1,200 season tickets, which are still not huge figures but we were going for ... IAN LENAGAN Friday afternoon we had sold only about 100 tickets but we ended up with over 250 people in attendan... BETTY HARRISON There are no tickets left; they sold out. There is no other way to answer that. CARLOS DELGADO We never thought it would take so long to sell this house. We were never going to buy until we sold ... TOM CUNNINGHAM Obviously, you sell more tickets for a Winter Olympics in Switzerland than in Sicily. And since we h... GIUSEPPE GATTINO Before we would all go out there early in the morning and stand in line. After signing a sheet of pa... JENNIFER BOYD There are probably two sporting events in the world that are bigger than the festival in terms of pe... PAUL GUDGIN [For the peak days of Saturday and Sunday,] we?re projecting to sell out both days, ... We?re almost... DAVID BARNES The Wacken festival started more than 20 years ago with just a few hundred people in attendance. Tic... HENRY ROLLINS Yeah, whenever the jackpot for any lottery gets up over $50 million, we sell more tickets. NAV SINGH [Baton Rouge definitely needs some help with its infrastructure.] If we had capacity problems before... JOHN DAVIES We have more non-English players in our league than any other country in the world. GORDON TAYLOR To get more support, we have projects that hit close to home, so residents can get excited about it.... JOE BLUBAUGH Those are important in making ticket decisions. The better you do them, the more tickets you will se... HUGO BURGE Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads. ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One DANIEL GILMAN We also keep the prices fairly low, and if something doesn't sell, we mark it down and get it sold. DEBBIE LUND He blesses us so we can be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL We will get there -- here and in other parts of the world _ more quickly than most people appreciate... PAUL TAGLIABUE There are eight sponsorship opportunities available for this conference, and we anticipate that they... CARMEN GONZALEZ The quickest way to purchase tickets definitely will be directly online. JOE STROHM We will probably sell out, and we encourage everyone to get their passes before Thursday. JAKE CHANIN We sold off the securities to improve our margins, as well as absorb the other expenses, to better p... SCOTT BAUER It does move around every year, but this year we decided to use the stadium because it has grown so ... BONNIE GRANT Our marketing is more real-time than other places … in other businesses, it's not as event based. ... DARYL MOREY We have some new flavors. We tried to get new bands in and new performers, mix it up a bit so people... JOSH AMOS It will be tough but we have two other stores that are non-smoking and things are going well there. DAVID HOOVER Laundry is another issue to arise in the near future as these folks need clean clothes ... and as we... DAVE HALL Right now the effect would be we're in a 'sold-out' market, according to the marketing people. All t... ED EPPING Well, first of all, it's better to play in a regional final and lose than not get here at all. Hopef... LARRY SCHLIEM Everybody who wants to sell will have sold. Supply will be exhausted. RICHARD DICKSON We only sold about 4,500 tickets [for Saturday] in advance and what happened was we were just overru... GREG TOPALIAN Once we reopen in July, folks who weren't able to get it after April will still be able to get insid... CHARLIE YOUNG I think it will sell well. The current DS has sold well for such a clunky portable device, so users ... EIJI MAEDA We really wanted to come together and get all the folks from these communities talking to each other... HILLARY LISTER The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl... ANGIE KARAN More heroin is sold around the Skid Row area than all other places in California combined. ANDY SMITH The total number of tickets sold is over 850,000, and we are selling tickets for an average of 8,000... CESARE VACIAGO We are thrilled about the fact that in the first couple of hours we have sold over 5,000 tickets. JOE DEGUARDIA Philadelphia in particular is really moving online. We sold more in Philadelphia than we sold to the... SEAN O'CONNOR We did very well and sold across the board. Furniture appeared to sell especially well at the show. ... MARIE MILLER We were so strong yesterday that I think there is a natural inclination to sell a little bit off. Bu... IAN NAKAMOTO We've got so many guests who buy tickets who are disabled and are in real need of a close parking sp... JOHN POWER Pink is female - but why? Are girls any more pink than boys? Are boys any more blue than girls? It's... DAVID LEVITHAN That's what we try to do. We definitely wanted to get after it and play tough defense, and tonight I... DEREK SONDERLAND We sell more fish than anything. Folk come from out of town. We might be small, but we're good. CHARLES FOSTER They sold 1,000 tickets, and we only have 3,000 people in the town. So it means a third of our town-... KRISTY WALKER We can confirm that the show will go ahead Friday night. Over 90 percent of the tickets have been so... PETER BASUKI People expect us to be different, but we're not. We're very similar people, and it's bec... ADRIAN EDMONDSON We have more people who want to buy them than we will have Brownstones to sell. BRIAN STEBBINS Two of (the losses), Colorado and Oklahoma State, you expect, but the other four, we were in. After ... MARK SLONAKER They want a huge rent increase so the old folks will be forced to either sell or abandon the units. ... DON BLATCHFORD That turned out to be mistake. We had (too many) people outside trying to get in and (others) outsid... JOE NICKEL People really liked it and couldn't get to see it because the tickets sold out. There was quite a bi... DAVID KNEUSS We've had tickets sold all over the state, so I don't know where the winner might come from, JAMES MATTHEWS We are getting the rubbish seats but come Thursday the other tickets will go on sale to the general ... DAVID MORGAN I will be a teacher as well as a coach and will try to teach kids how important a good work ethic is... BRANDON COMBS It'd be fun if we could run farther apart, but that's not going to sell many tickets. DALE EARNHARDT JR Standing on the edge of that darkness, she felt the stirrings of reckless want. A wild sort of brave... EMILY LLOYD-JONES Right now with all the rain, the pitchers are definitely ahead of the hitters. And this might hurt u... ANDY ZAVOREK An Error is like Salt and A 'Sincere' Apology is like Water and a ''Repeated Same Error'' is like a ... ANUROOP TYAGI we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI As we've redefined those pools so they're smaller and smaller and smaller, you lose all the benefit ... LYNN BAILEY We have had more than 1,000 hotel rooms added since 2000, ... Inventory is definitely going up, and ... BOB SCHULTZ It is tough to sell 12,000 tickets in two days. There are going to be plenty of seats for anyone who... BOB STULL I think our ladies will do well, and our men will be lucky to get a medal. I think we have a good da... BILL FAUVER We need to get in their grant periods, but those will be after we run out of money. BETH ANN FULLER It is far less cumbersome to sell it at the gate and you have essentially no waste -- it's in a refr... DAN GARTON After following more than 60,000 people for more than a dozen years, University of Oxford researcher... MICHAEL GREGER We continue to believe that OfficeMax should be sold. We are confident that a sale will create more ... ABNER KURTIN We expected to sell out, but, honestly, we didn't expect to sell out so quickly. JOE STROHM After we beat Regis to open the playoffs, I found out we were going to get to play Kearney and that ... ASHLEY GRONEWOLLER They had a situation on their team, but this was about us. The main thing was we wanted to get bette... DONALD COPELAND We probably sold about 500 tickets overnight and this morning. We didn't get down under 1,000 like w... STEVE VIOLETTA Some of the things that we will be paying close attention to are folks that run red lights. (We will... DON ENGLER Chetek is such a giving community - we had more squirrel food than we knew what to do with last year... JULIE ODIL Love is purpose and we all have love so we all have a purpose PARKER LOUIS SEELY Special places in other states are proposed to be sold so Oregon can get its pork. ANDY STAHL There is thy gold--worse poison to men's souls,
Doing more murder in this loathsome world,
Tha... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It's typical for Italians to do things at the last minute. We are also keeping back tickets to be so... GIUSEPPE GATTINO Within a few weeks of offering the homes in Cary we sold all the lots we could sell in the grand ope... BRUCE KARATZ There is definitely a need for increasing capacity in higher education; a large part of this is bein... PALLAM RAJU We were just sitting around the house after the bands broke up, and we just called each other up and... AARON TRICHE I was the lead singer in a lot of the bands I was in. You have to be comfortable. You gotta get up t... RICHIE SAMBORA
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