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When I first heard Ray Charles, he was a flop artist on a small label in California. He hadn't sold any records. And I bought his contract for $2,500.
Ahmet Ertegun
First
Sold
Charles
Small
Records
He
Bought
Ray
Ray Charles
California
His
Heard
Contract
Label
Any
Artist
Flop
Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris.
Al Jardine
World
Car
Thomas
Thomas Edison
Sold
Paris
He
Fair
Edison
Yes
Grandfather
Worked
Electric
Electric Cars
A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you. And then that's what you have to be. But what I'm looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.
Alan Arkin
You
Learning
Opportunity
Looking
Sold
Easily
Wrap
Put
Most
Identity
Limits
Label
Up
Probing
Then
Explore
Product
I had to jump around in the arts for a while just to survive. I earned a little money here and there, playing the guitar at union meetings, functions. I sold some science-fiction stories. I knew there was absolutely no question of me not being connected with the arts, but I couldn't find any acting jobs.
Alan Arkin
Me
Money
Guitar
Earned
Meetings
Sold
Jobs
Find
Some
No Question
Absolutely
Had
Knew
Around
Question
Jump
Survive
Any
Just
Arts
Being
Stories
While
Little
To Survive
Little Money
Acting
Union
Connected
Functions
Here
Playing
I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them.
Alan Ball
Work
Love
True Love
Family
Conflict
Understanding
Guess
Sold
Able
Perfect
Through
Never
Knew
True
Ideal
Well-Adjusted
Sure
Exist
America
Any
Confront
Them
Things
It's appealing to me to get to be in a commercial film without feeling like I sold out.
Alden Ehrenreich
Me
Feeling
Sold
Out
Like
Without
Commercial
Get
Appealing
Film
One of the Internet's highest-profile companies, Priceline once dreamed of transforming the way consumer goods are bought and sold by offering customers the chance to 'name your own price' for a variety of products, including airline tickets.
Alex Berenson
Internet
Own
Sold
Once
Way
Airline
Dreamed
Variety
Price
Consumer
Bought
Name
Goods
Tickets
Offering
Transforming
Customers
Your
Products
Companies
Including
Chance
Insider trading is hard to prove. To be convicted, a person must have bought or sold a stock based on material information that is both unknown to the general public and likely to have had an important effect on a company's stock price.
Alex Berenson
Important
Unknown
Sold
Must
Insider
General
Both
General Public
Price
Had
Bought
Likely
Material
Prove
Trading
Effect
Stock
Person
Information
Public
Convicted
Hard
Company
Based
I generally use 'threat intelligence' when I'm talking about a product packaged and sold by a dedicated commercial entity and 'information sharing' as something that happens between security teams at trusted parties without renumeration.
Alex Stamos
Intelligence
Sold
Security
Threat
About
Something
Entity
Generally
Sharing
Between
Parties
Talking
Without
Trusted
Commercial
Happens
Information
Packaged
Product
Use
Dedicated
Teams
Capitalists work hard to produce what consumers want. Artists who work too hard to produce what consumers want are often accused of selling out. Thus, even the languages of capitalism and art conflict: a firm that has 'sold out' has succeeded, but an artist that has 'sold out' has failed.
Alex Tabarrok
Work
Art
Capitalism
Conflict
Work Hard
Too
Sold
Out
Consumers
Firm
Failed
Thus
Selling
Accused
Artist
Often
Artists
Want
Succeeded
Produce
Capitalists
Languages
Hard
Who
Even
The best part of being an angel investor is seeing these kids coming up with companies that get way more traffic than Reddit had when we sold it. I think, 'Are you kidding me? They're just kids, and they've done so much.'
Alexis Ohanian
Best
Me
You
Angel
Think
Sold
Way
Kidding
Kids
Best Part
Seeing
More
Had
Part
Investor
Reddit
Coming
Traffic
Up
Than
Get
Done
Just
Being
Much
Companies
I worked for three years in a small IT firm in Chicago. I managed our client base, so I translated into human speak for our technicians. But our company was sold, and the atmosphere and the culture really changed, so I quit without having anything else lined up.
Allison Tolman
Culture
Speak
Three
Changed
Else
Our
Sold
Atmosphere
Having
Small
Firm
Without
Client
Years
Lined
Chicago
Up
Quit
Human
Anything
Anything Else
Translated
Worked
Really
Company
Base
Technicians
I've sold my Mercedes and I'll be getting something electric. I work out of a thatch shed on the roof.
Amala Paul
Work
Roof
Sold
Out
Something
Mercedes
Shed
Getting
Work Out
Electric
Shared ownership will always mean that you will never sell as many cars as might have been sold without shared mobility... if people are sharing cars, then obviously you are going to sell less cars than would have been sold otherwise. But it doesn't mean that you will have a deceleration in private cars; it just means that the growth will be lower.
Anand Mahindra
You
People
Car
Will
Ownership
Otherwise
Sold
Would
Never
Shared
Sharing
Obviously
Without
Always
Private
Been
Mobility
Sell
Than
Going
Just
Mean
Might
Then
Lower
Means
Less
Many
Growth
My mother and I were part of a deal in the mid-'60s between Romania and Israel. Israel bought freedom for Romanian Jews for $2,000 a head. Ceausescu made a bundle in hard currency. He also 'sold' ethnic Germans to West Germany. Instead of going to Israel, my mother and I came to the United States.
Andrei Codrescu
Freedom
Mother
Made
Jews
Sold
States
He
Part
Head
Bought
Instead
Between
Also
Deal
Israel
Came
Were
West
Germans
Germany
Bundle
Currency
Going
Romania
Ethnic
Hard
United
United States
In the highly unlikely event that the 'Telegraph' was to be sold again, then 'The Spectator' doesn't go with it.
Andrew Neil
Sold
Unlikely
Telegraph
Highly
Go
Again
Then
Event
Spectator
We built Bonobos, with more than a few dozen customers and counting, and the industry we were disrupting didn't seem to care. Then we 'sold out' to Walmart. Abracadabra. The red carpet rolled open.
Andy Dunn
Care
Few
Sold
Carpet
Out
Seem
More
Open
Red
Counting
Red Carpet
Industry
Built
Were
Than
Walmart
Customers
Then
Dozen
When we were younger and first starting out in Australia, we found that we sold more records by word of mouth because we were playing the bars, clubs, and small places and building a following. And as we got bigger, we still relied a lot on word of mouth.
Angus Young
Word
First
Building
Mouth
Sold
Out
Following
More
Small
Records
Because
Got
Still
Were
Lot
Australia
Bigger
Word-Of-Mouth
Places
Clubs
Younger
Bars
Found
Playing
Starting
All of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it's part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general.
Ani DiFranco
Youth
Culture
Think
Back
Our
Corporate
Furious
Sold
Our Lives
Parcel
Rate
General
Part
Part And Parcel
Days
Packaged
Us
Youth Culture
Lives
My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing.
Anish Kapoor
First
Half
Nothing
Back
Sold
Spent
Minutes
Studio
Almost
Almost Nothing
Half Years
Within
Making
Came
Years
Next
Show
Two
In 2007, I sold my first book, 'Grimspace.' It says it's SF on the spine. I believe it to be SF, though it's certainly written differently. I write in first person, present tense, and the protagonist is a woman with a woman's thoughts, feelings, and sexual desires.
Ann Aguirre
Thoughts
Woman
Book
First
Feelings
Believe
Sold
Says
Though
Sexual
Spine
Write
Written
Tense
Protagonist
First-Person
Person
Certainly
Differently
Present
Present Tense
Desires
Hollywood sold its stars on good looks and personality buildups. We weren't really actresses in a true sense, we were just big names - the products of a good publicity department.
Ann Sothern
Good
Personality
Big
Sense
Stars
Good Looks
Sold
True
Names
Looks
True Sense
Were
Department
Just
Hollywood
Really
Products
Publicity
Actress
All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.
Anna Akhmatova
Death
Black
Sold
Has-Been
Betrayed
Wing
Been
io9 was the last standalone site that Gawker Media ever launched. It was born at a time when many of the company's other famous sites, from Consumerist and Wonkette to Fleshbot and Idolator, were being sold off or shuttered.
Annalee Newitz
Time
Other
Sold
Born
Were
Off
Site
Sites
Being
Famous
Many
Company
Media
Ever
Last
'Dancing with the Stars' is a great format for us. It's a format we license from the BBC, so that can't travel for us, but we consider it a great success. 'Desperate Housewives,' on the other hand, a huge success for us internationally. 'Missing' has actually sold to 80 territories before it's even gone on the air.
Anne Sweeney
Success
Great
Travel
Desperate
Before
Gone
Stars
Other
Consider
Air
Sold
Dancing
Dancing With The Stars
License
Great Success
Missing
Housewives
Territories
Hand
Huge
Format
Us
Even
Internationally
Actually
I think it's even harder because I think as always, Hollywood is sort of glamour central for the world, and the entire world looks to it for not only entertainment, but the whole idea of the youth factor and youth being sold to our culture via young actors and actresses.
Anthony Michael Hall
Entertainment
Youth
Culture
World
Young
Think
Our
Sold
Entire
Entire World
Only
Factor
Glamour
Idea
Looks
Sort
Because
Always
Via
Young Actors
Being
Central
Hollywood
Whole
Even
Actor
Actress
Harder
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