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I love going to tag sales, to auctions.
Lara Spencer / Journalist
Auctions
Tag
Sales
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Dark money has turned our elections into auctions
Fred Duval / Businessman
Auctions
Dark
Election
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I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year.
Jeffrey Archer / Member Of The House Of Lords
Auctions
Charity
Years
Currently
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Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
H. L. Mencken / Journalist
Politics
Auctions
Election
Goods
Liberty
Stolen
Advance
Auction
Every
Sort
Sale
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An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
Ambrose Bierce / Journalist
Auctions
Deception
Election
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This isn't like an auction, right? You guys aren't going to take it away?
Jennifer Lawrence / Actress
Life
Auctions
Guy
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A pearl goes up for auction. No one has enough, so the pearl buys itself.
Rumi / Poet
Auctions
Enough
Pearls
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War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.
David Mitchell / Novelist
War
Auctions
Winning
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I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.
Robert Rauschenberg / Painter
Home
Auctions
Night
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My first crime novel, "Wild Horses," sold at auction, and that changed my life at an ideal time.
Brian Hodge /
Auctions
Crime Novels
Horse
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Now every club promoter wanna bid like auctions, cause I pack shows, sell ticks Celtics like Boston.
Nicki Minaj / Rapper
Auctions
Boston
Clubs
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I have this beautiful antique silver wine decanter that I bought at an auction. I always pour wine from that.
Paul Lynde / Comedian
Auctions
Beautiful
Silver
Wine
Antique
Auction
Bought
Pour
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I got [Muhammad Ali's boxing shorts] for $40 at an auction. Nobody wanted them. I have them framed in my house.
Christopher Walken / Actor
Auctions
Boxing
House
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God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
A. Alfred Taubman /
Auctions
World
Would Be
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My first ball I ever got from a big-league player I actually got to purchase in Dodger Stadium in a silent auction, was Reggie Jackson.
Pedro Martinez / Baseball Player
Auctions
League
Player
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I was never like, "collect, collect," like people who go to auctions. I never spent a serious amount of time because I don't have any time!
Mikhail Baryshnikov / Choreographer
Auctions
People
Serious
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I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.
James Lee Burke / Author
Auctions
Lost
One Day
Rejection
Slips
Box
Auction
Autograph
Rejection Slips
Save
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Through SCP Auctions, the Garvey family will also continue to share our great love for baseball by donating time and dollars to youth baseball programs.
Steve Garvey / Baseball Player
Auctions
Baseball
Dollars
Great Love
Youth
Love Time Family
Love Family Time
Programs
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Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left from happiness.
Chuck Palahniuk / Novelist
Auctions
Memories
Useless
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A tipping point is invisible, as we just saw in Greece. In most situations, everything appears fine until it's not fine, until, for example, no one shows up at a Treasury auction.
Seth Klarman / Author
Auctions
Example
Tipping
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When Robert Benton was doing the movie 'In the Still of the Night,' I'd choreographed the auction scene and supplied the paintings and had a bit part - I was bidding against Meryl Streep.
Arne Glimcher / Art Dealer
Auctions
Bidding
Night
Scene
Auction
Meryl
Meryl Streep
Robert
Supplied
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The results speak for themselves: Businesses that competitively sourced service contracts saved an average of about 22 percent. Even more impressive - nearly every e-auction delivered cost savings.
Brian Miller / Actor
Auctions
Average
Insightful
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In all fairness to the auction companies ? most companies are not car experts, they are marketers. I caution buyers to make sure that they have done their homework before they raise their hand and not after.
Mark Hyman, M.d. / Physician
Car
Auctions
Hands
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I still feel pangs of remorse over an insidious habit I've had since I was a teenager. About three times a week, I attend estate auctions and make insulting, low-ball bids for prized heirlooms until I'm asked to leave.
Dennis Miller / Comedian
Auctions
Insulting
Teenager
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The best works do not necessarily get to auction. I like to draw, so maybe I give you a little drawing. And then eventually it ends up at auction. And then critics say, 'Oh, that's a bad drawing!' Well, I didn't say it was so wonderful.
Marlene Dumas / Artist
Auctions
Critics
Drawing
Giving
Auction
Draw
Eventually
Necessarily
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When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
Edmund Burke / Statesman
Auctions
Construction
Guides
Instruments
Leader
Legislators
People
Popularity
Auction
Service People Will
Choose
Talents
Instead
Leaders
Service
Themselves
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We're more familiar with what economists call an English auction - prices start low and rise as people bid. However, there is also the Dutch auction, where prices start high and go lower until somebody bites. Movies are sold to the audience via a very slow Dutch auction, where each phase between price drops can last weeks or months.
Nathan Myhrvold / Author
Auctions
Bites
Familiar
People
Phases
Rise
Auction
Movies Start People
Bid
Drops
Economists
Low
Phase
Prices
Slow
Sold
Via
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