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Auctions are bizarre combinations of slave market, trading floor, theatre and burlesque... a lot of people are going to be making a lot of excuses or maintaining that they were never part of this. -- Jerry Saltz
I love going to tag sales, to auctions. -- Lara Spencer
I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year. -- Jeffrey Archer
My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands. -- Jason Statham
Everything I commission - whether it is for me or for a client's home or for a hotel or office - is absolutely unique to that job. I have everything made, or I find vintage and antique pieces at markets and auctions. -- Kelly Wearstler
Publication - is the auction of the mind... -- Emily Dickinson
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. -- H. L. Mencken
I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions. -- Robert Rauschenberg
A pearl goes up for auction. No one has enough, so the pearl buys itself. -- Rumi
I have this beautiful antique silver wine decanter that I bought at an auction. I always pour wine from that. -- Paul Lynde
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
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
There is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want to be seen to be bidding. -- William McIlvanney
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
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.
Sometimes when I'm swimming, I think that maybe someday I'll put my red Speedo up for auction. Or maybe I'll donate it to the Smithsonian. They can stuff it with two plums and a gherkin and put it on display. -- David Duchovny
By and large, the making of serious, thoughtful and occasionally valuable art has become a lonely persuasion, while the marketing of art has become a boutique operation, manipulated by fashion, self-serving art scholars and the vagaries of the auction block. -- Abe Ajay
Notwithstanding my grandmother's long and faithful service to her owners, not one of her children escaped the auction block. These God-breathing machines are no more, in the sight of their masters, than the cotton they plant, or the horses they tend. -- Harriet Ann Jacobs
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
It's the greatest game I ever saw. You can't lose. Everybody buys to sell and nobody buys to keep. What's worrying me is who is going to be the last owner. It's just like an auction; the only one stuck is the last one. -- Will Rogers
People were doing business with one another through the Internet already, through bulletin boards. But on the Web, we could make it interactive, we could create an auction, we could create a real marketplace. And that's really what triggered my imagination, if you will, and that's what I did. -- Pierre Omidyar
I hate art auctions. -- Jerry Saltz
I think there are a lot of honest people doing honest business on online auctions. But the control on these Web sites is pretty minimal. -- Dan Butler
I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I've gawked at the gaudy prices, and gaped at well-clad crowds of happy white people conspicuously spending hundreds of millions of dollars. -- Jerry Saltz
It's a great advantage to be able to play people off against each other, isn't it? You go to Christie's and get a quote on something. And then you go to Phillips' and you tell them what Christie's has given you. I like auctions for artists. -- Damien Hirst
Before I was a cosplayer, I was a fan artist. I would draw my favorite characters and sell the pieces at art auctions. But once I discovered cosplay, it was like, 'I don't have to draw my favorite characters, I can become my favorite characters.' -- Yaya Han
Reinventing the Bazaar,' by John McMillan, is a great and fun introduction to the wild variety and importance of markets throughout history and around the world. I finally understood how a Middle Eastern souk actually works economically and how to compare that to modern-day telecom-spectrum auctions. I love that book. -- Adam Davidson
Dark money has turned our elections into auctions -- Fred DuVal
Now every club promoter wanna bid like auctions, cause I pack shows, sell ticks Celtics like Boston. -- Nicki Minaj
My real father was a portrait painter. I went to a lot of auctions as a kid and galleries. -- Cary Elwes
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
The Department of Justice should resolutely bar monopolizing mergers in all markets, including telecommunications, but they are not in a position, as is the FCC, to promote new competition by selling the airwaves in auctions. -- Reed Hundt

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