#esma

Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had. ↗

— Billy Bragg

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My wife - to-be and I went to see my father. Only he could answer the two questions before us: Shall we get married now? Shall I begin the practice of law, or continue being the successful wine salesman I had become, working my way through law school? ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#become #before #begin #being #continue

In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand. ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

#chief #create #demand #rather #salesman

When you're out of office, you can be a statesman. ↗

— John Connally

#out #statesman #you

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility to acquirers; and three, hope to all. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most. ↗

— Confucius

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Having served as the majority spokesman for the House Ways and Means Committee after Republicans took the House in 1994, I've seen the promise and the peril of divided government before. ↗

— Ari Fleischer

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At one point my dad called me and said, 'You have always been a great salesman. I think it's time you come home and sell swimming pools.' ↗

— Courteney Cox

#been #called #come #dad #great

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman. ↗

— David Lloyd George

#him #person #politician #politics #statesman

The entire affective world, constructed over the years with utmost difficulty, collapses with a kick in the father's genitals, a smack on the mother's face, an obscene insult to the sister, or the sexual violation of a daughter. Suddenly an entire culture based on familial love, devotion, the capacity for mutual sacrifice collapses. Nothing is possible in such a universe, and that is precisely what the torturers know… From my cell, I'd hear the whispered voices of children trying to learn what was happening to their parents, and I'd witness the efforts of daughters to win over a guard, to arouse a feeling of tenderness in him, to incite the hope of some lovely future relationship between them in order to learn what was happening to her mother, to get an orange sent to her, to get permission for her to go to the bathroom. ↗

— Jacobo Timerman

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