“The exploitation agenda advocated by liberals is modeled after the dependency-inducing design of the drug dealer's business model: "We'll supply the first hit for free, and after that, you'll need us forever in order to survive." In order for the liberal scheme to succeed, all attempts at self-empowerment or individual initiative are to be met with fierce resistance and social sanction.” NeedsFirstsSelfOrderIndividualSocialForeverDesignMetsDrugSucceedModelsEmpowermentResistanceAgendasFierceInitiativeSchemesExploitationSanctionsSelf EmpowermentDealerDependencyBusiness ModelsDrug Dealers Book:Bamboozled: How Americans are being Exploited by the Lies of the Liberal Agenda Source: Bamboozled: How Americans are being Exploited by the Lies of the Liberal Agenda
“Even before President [Barack] Obama announced actions aimed at tightening controls on gun purchases, sales were up, partly in reaction to terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino. Gun dealers say the president's initiatives have spurred sales. At the same time, polling shows more than two thirds of Americans support the president's proposals, including a majority of gun owners.” TwoShowsActionPresidentSupportGunThirdsMajorityIncludingTerroristReactionsBarackParisOwnersInitiativeProposalDealerPresident Barack ObamaTerrorist AttacksPollingGun Owners Author:Rachel Martin
“My first few years as TV critic, I would go to parties and people (usually older Posties or ex-Posties who seemed to pride themselves on not watching very much television) would take me by the arm and insist that I watch this show they'd recently starting watching on DVD, about drug dealers in Baltimore.” PeopleYearsFirstsShowsPartyWatchesTelevisionTvsPrideArmsDrugCriticsStartingTake MeExesDealerDvdsBaltimoreDrug Dealers Author:Hank Stuever
“Through my friend Tony Shafrazi, who's an art dealer and an artist himself - he helped to show Basquiat and Keith Haring, and has worked with the Francis Bacon estate - it was really through my friendship with Tony that I developed even more of an interest in art.” ArtShowsArtistInterestMy FriendsEstatesMy FriendshipDealerKeithBasquiat Author:Owen Wilson
“In enforcement, you always have to have both a focus on the really worst actors - you know, gang bangers, in this case, drug dealers, that sort of thing - but also routine enforcement because think about, for instance, the IRS. They don't say, OK, well, if you're not a money launderer, it doesn't matter whether you fill your tax return out right or not. They have both. They go after the really bad actors and they have a kind of general, routine enforcement.” IfsThinkingKnowsWellsKindMatterActorsCasesFocusWorstReturnDrugTaxesInstanceRoutineEnforcementGangDealerIrsDrug DealersTax Returns Author:Mark Krikorian
“Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.” ThinkingFeelsStillsSpeakLibertyRedAgreeAgreementDealer Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“Now, [Donald] Trump has thus far gotten endorsements from illustrious group, that includes Sarah Palin, David Duke, Dennis Rodman, racially profiling birther sheriff, Joe Arpaio, vaping Congressman Duncan Hunter, and just this afternoon, infamous Maine Governor Paul LePage who accused drug dealers with D-Money, Smoothie and Shifty of impregnating white women.” WhiteGroupsTrumpDrugAfternoonGovernorsHuntersAccusedDealerDukesPalinCongressmanMaineInfamousEndorsementsDrug DealersSheriffsDuncanSmoothiesSheriff Joe Arpaio Author:Chris Hayes
“Before I moved to Brooklyn to pursue music, I was a high school dropout and speed freak who'd been living with her dealer boyfriend in Bucks County, Pennsylvania at 16.” SchoolHigh SchoolMovedSpeedPursueFreakBucksBrooklynCountyDealerPennsylvaniaDropoutsSchool DropoutHigh School Dropout Author:Britta Phillips
“There is a discrepancy of somebody going to an art dealer and promising what they'll make for the next three years. And I'm old fashioned that way; I think that every exhibition you make is supposed to put you in the world, that the next exhibition is spinning off of that. It's almost like a riff. And if you know what you're going to do for the next three years, why don't just do it the final point? You would think, in a progressive situation, that the final would be the best.” IfsThinkingKnowsWorldWayYearsArtWould BeThreeNextSituationFinalsBeing The BestProgressiveThree YearsOld FashionedSpinningJust Do ItDealerExhibitionsDiscrepancies Author:Lawrence Weiner
“I never ever approached a dealer. I have always been approached by dealers or curators or whatever.” DealerCurator Author:Robert Barry
“I work sometimes with dealers and sometimes people just come to me. A lot of the commissions, they just know me. They have seen something and they just approach me.” PeopleKnowsSometimesApproachKnow MeDealer Author:Robert Barry
“I am very generous with my dealers in terms of the art that they have of mine. They all have a very good selection of work that they can work with. And it is up to them to find the dealers. I don't interfere with their selling.” ArtTermMinesVery GoodSellingGenerousInterfereSelectionDealer Author:Robert Barry
“I think something like three-quarters of American currency is held abroad, by drug dealers, by tax evaders, Russians and Chinese. Other people think that they want to protect themselves against their own currency going down. When you have 75% of the currency and even more of the high-denomination $100 bills held abroad, you wonder whether these are people we really want to pay. If you get rid of the $100 bills, its foreign holders will be the main losers.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantThreePayWonderDrugProtectTaxesBillsChineseLoserQuartersCurrencyDealerDenominationsDrug Dealers Author:Michael Hudson
“When you have a candidate like Donald Trump saying that Mexicans are rapists and drug dealers, and also doubling down and suggesting that we should deport 11 million undocumented workers, who are mostly people that came to this country to better themselves, and to patrol neighborhoods of predominantly Muslims families. This shows you how deeply held those feelings really are in our country and that the Republicans have absolutely no interest in helping minorities.” PeopleShouldCountryHelpingShowsFeelingsInterestMillionsTrumpRepublicanDrugDown AndWorkersOur CountryCandidatesMinoritiesNeighborhoodDealerSuggestingDrug DealersUndocumented WorkersMuslim Family Author:Debbie Wasserman Schultz
“People who are just in a restaurant that you would never know are international arms dealers is kind of interesting, they're at the table next to you and you have no idea, you never know what everyone's up to.” PeopleKnowsKindIdeasNextInterestingArmsTablesInternationalNo IdeaRestaurantsDealer Author:Jonah Hill
“I think crime is a huge issue for people. If you were living in the poorest state, and you've got drug dealers at the end of the street, and your life's in misery, and you're afraid of your kids going out the door. I mean, the job of progressive politicians is to do something about that.” PeopleIfsThinkingMeanEndsStatesKidsJobsIssuesDoorsStreetsCrimeHugePoliticianDrugMiseryProgressiveGoing OutPoorestDealerDrug Dealers Author:Tony Blair
“All the drug dealers and gang members with whom I dealt had [a cell phone] long before any police officer I knew did.” LongInspirationMotivationTechnologyDrugMembersPolicePhonesCellsOfficersGangCell PhoneDealerPolice OfficerDrug DealersGang Members Author:Marc Goodman
“The subject matter itself lends itself to the black side because the kids are drug dealers and kids that are getting shot by police and getting shot by themselves. People automatically associate that with blackness because of the news.” PeopleMatterKidsSidesBlackSubjectsDrugNewsShotsPoliceAssociatesSubject MatterDealerBlacknessDrug Dealers Author:Steven Caple Jr.
“No one comes up to me asking for a crack dealer's number. People come up to me to talk about lyrics, about music, about the band.” PeopleNumbersBandAskingCome UpCracksDealer Author:Pete Doherty
“I mean, our disaster in Libya also unleashed enormous amounts of armaments. We are the world's leading arms dealer, arming all sides everywhere. And have we made the Middle East a more secure place? We're only making it more desperate, more catastrophic and more violent.” WorldMeanMadeSidesMiddleArmsAmountEastDisasterViolentEnormousSecureDesperateMiddle EastDealerLibyaUnleashedArmament Author:Jill Stein
“I always wondered, you know I watch "Cops" all the time - why doesn't a drug dealer design a trap door under their car? 'Cause cops don't have cameras under the cars, they get you for throwing stuff out the window! If you got a trap door under your car, boom! You would run over it. It would be genius.” IfsKnowsWould BeRunningCausesStuffWatchesDoorsCarDesignGeniusDrugWindowCamerasOver ItThrowingCopTrapsDealerDrug Dealers Author:Kellan Lutz
“I've read about all the sales today. If you're an auto dealer, you're feeling it. If you're a furniture retailer like we are, you're feeling it. If you're a jewelry retailer, you're feeling it. I know some of these businesses because we're in them. Yeah, it's being felt, but it will be felt big time more if we don't do something about it, what's going on.” IfsKnowsFeelingsBigsTodayFeltYeahFurnitureJewelryDealerRetailers Author:Warren Buffett
“I'm a dealer. That's exactly right. I'm a used car dealer.” UsedCarDealerUsed CarCar Dealer Author:Bernie Ecclestone
“I think the way I do things would be difficult to teach somebody to do. They need to get another good used car dealer. That's what they need. Find a good car dealer.” ThinkingWayNeedsWould BeUsedDifficultTeachCarDealerUsed CarCar Dealer Author:Bernie Ecclestone
“I think it's reasonable that the government, when it has a warrant from a court, when it's exposed to scrutiny by a legal process that would be upheld, not just nationally, but internationally as a reliable and robust standard rights protection, they can enjoy certain powers. This is no different from having the police able to get a warrant to go and search your house, to kick at your door because they think you're an arms dealer or something like that. There needs to be a process involved, it needs to be public, and it needs to be challengeable in court at all times.” ThinkingNeedsDifferentGovernmentWould BeAbleCertainHouseProcessEnjoyRightsDoorsArmsInvolvedStandardsPoliceCourtProtectionAll TimeKicksReasonableExposedDealerScrutinyRobustWarrants Author:Edward Snowden
“There was a guy named Ed Mishell. He was this grandfatherly guy who did all the illustrations for the catalogs and reviewed magic effects for the magic magazines, so all of the magic dealers would send him magic effects for free-it was a great deal. His basement was full of this stuff. He took me under his wing, and he would sneak me into the Society of American Magicians meetings in New York. It's the world's oldest magic organization.” WorldGuyStuffDealsMagicEffectsNew YorkOrganizationWingsMeetingsMagazinesMagicianDealerIllustrationBasementsSneak Author:David Copperfield
“I'll get rid of the drug problem. The first drug dealer will be publicly executed in front of everybody and all of the sudden the rest of the drug dealers are going to go "Uh oh!" Watch how fast the drug problem disappears. If you use drugs, you're addicted and you steal something, you'll get sent off to the outback and to work camps and all of the sudden no drug addicts. See how simple that is? So simple.” IfsFirstsUseProblemSimpleWatchesFrontsDrugDisappearStealingCampsAddictDealerDrug AddictDrug Dealers Author:Gene Simmons
“I grew up in the projects with four older brothers. And there were tough, macho gangsters, drug dealers, killers, and thugs all in my neighborhood. And they were afraid of my mother. So, yeah, I know some strong women.” KnowsMotherStrongFourBrotherGrewDrugProjectsGrew UpToughYeahNeighborhoodKillersStrong WomenDealerGangstersThugMachoOlder BrotherDrug Dealers Author:Michael Che
“We are going to trace more effectively, how these guns are ending up on the streets, to unscrupulous gun dealers, who often times are selling to straw purchasers. And cracking down on the various loopholes that exist in terms of background checks for children, the mentally ill.” ChildrenTermStreetsGunIllVariousBackgroundsChecksSellingDealerStrawsMentally IllLoopholesBackground ChecksPurchasers Author:Barack Obama
“I grew in a community where I saw the process of how one becomes a drug dealer or a gang banger or a stick-up kid. There's a series of events that happen. People don't just wake up and decide they wanna be that.” PeopleHappensKidsProcessCommunitySawsEventsGrewDrugWake UpSticksSeriesGangDealerDrug Dealers Author:Michael K. Williams
“Even in our own agriculture strategy, if we got a great new drought-resistant seed and we managed to get it distributed in the system, we just assumed that it would reach female farmers. That's a false assumption, because women don't interact with agro-dealers. So if you don't develop specific programming to ensure that seed gets in a woman's hands, then the extra income [generated by higher-yielding crops] goes into her husband's hands.” IfsHandsHigherHusbandFemaleStrategySeedsIncomeExtrasAssumptionProgrammingFarmersAgricultureCropsDealerDroughtFalse Assumptions Author:Melinda Gates
“These pharmaceutical company executives are dope dealers and they should be treated worse, and more roughly than dope dealers. When you're talking about millionaire and billionaire executives at pharmaceutical companies, these are people with something to lose if threatened with jail. Frog-march them out of their door in suburbia, handcuffed and surrounded by DEA officers, with their children and neighbours watching.” PeopleIfsShouldChildrenLosesCompanyTalkingDoorsTreatedExecutivesMarchJailOfficersThreatenedNeighbourMillionaireFrogsBillionaireDealerDopePharmaceuticalSuburbiaPharmaceutical Companies Author:Anthony Bourdain
“If you try consciously to be avant-garde, it's a little dangerous, like the present state of modern painting, where dealers try to be avant-garde, and under this pretext, painters take some old scraps and call it avant-garde.” IfsTryingLittlesStatesModernDangerousPaintingPainterDealerScrapPretextAvant Garde Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“Now that's hard for many people to believe, given that the media image of a drug dealer is a black kid standing on the street corner with his pants sagging down.” PeopleBelieveHardKidsGivenBlackStreetsMediaDrugStandingCornersPantsDealerDrug DealersStreet CornersSagging Author:Michelle Alexander
“It's important to learn from the past and people's experiences, not only from my father's [Pablo Escobar] as a drug dealer, but from others that have ended just the way he did.” PeopleWayImportantPastFatherDrugDealerDrug DealersLearn From The PastPablo Escobar Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“I am surprised that many people disregard the fact that the end for almost all drug dealers ends up being the cemetery or the jail cell, we do not know of any case where a drug dealer has "retired"” PeopleKnowsEndsFactsCasesDrugCellsJailRetiredDisregardDealerCemeteryDrug Dealers Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“When one is that powerful and one think life will last like that forever, it is simply the most ephemeral thing. I don't think these sons and daughters of drug dealers are contributing to a lasting peace nor to human values that add to our society. They're delivering the message of riches and power that comes at the cost of people's lives and health and they incentivize young people to follow this model.” PeopleThinkingHumansLastsYoungValuesPowerfulForeverSonCostDrugMessagesModelsDaughterAddRichesOur SocietyLastingContributingDealerDeliveringEphemeralHuman ValuesSon And DaughterDrug Dealers Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“It's a shame to see drug dealers enter and leave the United States as if nothing in addition to those that purchase weapons and firearms.” IfsStatesUnitedUnited StatesDrugWeaponsShameDealerFirearmsDrug Dealers Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“That ain't nothing to be proud of, man. I'm not going to say, like, I'm an angel. I've definitely did some things. I just... I don't know... it's kind of corny to do that sometimes, you know? I mention it a few times, but I don't go crazy with it. I ain't a coke rapper, na'mean? I wasn't no big drug dealer neither, B. You know what I mean? I made enough to get fly, keep a little stack in the crib... couple of stacks in the crib. But I wasn't crazy with it. So that s**t ain't... I always worked for somebody. I got some other n***a rich.” KnowsMenKindMeanLittlesMadeSometimesEnoughBigsRichCrazyProudCoupleDrugAngelRapperBe ProudCornyDealerCokeDrug Dealers Author:Sean Price
“I guess I am nostalgic for a time - the nineteenth century and early twentieth - when writers were, to use Stefan Collini's phrase, "public moralists" and politicians, plutocrats, bankers, arms dealers, and experts and technocrats were not solely defining the moral norms as well as the political lives of our societies. We do have some writers claiming to be public moralists, but, as I said, they have actually been more jingoistic than even the henchmen of Bush and Blair.” WellsSaidUsePoliticalMoralCenturyArmsPoliticianPhrasesExpertsOur SocietyNormDefiningBankersNineteenth CenturyNostalgicDealerBlairPolitical LifeMoralistHenchmen Author:Pankaj Mishra
“My personal story is that my father was a heroin addict and a heroin dealer and has been in and out of prison my entire life, he's been arrested sixty times. I also have an older brother addicted to crack cocaine who's been in and out of prison so it was really important for me to tell a story that shows the humanity and the journey of a man getting of our prison and trying to re-acclimate into society. It's apart of our community that we have stereotypes and ideas about but we don't actually know much about it, unless we know someone personally.” MenTryingImportantHumanityFatherCommunityJourneyBrotherPrisonSixtyStereotypeAddictCocaineHeroinDealerOlder Brother Author:Daniel Beaty
“When you've got Jews and Christians, Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus removing graffiti from buildings, or getting drug dealers off the street, that's side by side. When you do that, you take it from the very elevated level of interfaith dialogue to the street level of neighbors. You get them working side by side, and they become friends. Friendship sometimes counts for more than interfaith agreement or understanding. Friendship is deeply human.” SometimesChristianUnderstandingBuildingDrugJewNeighborDialogueDealerGraffiti Author:Jonathan Sacks
“What happened with the opioid epidemic is the Mexican cartels made a very deliberate, corporate decision to undercut the price of opioids. What they discovered was they could increase production, increase potency and decrease the price, and sell it for a third of what the Big Pharma could, or street dealers could, for Big Pharma pills. North America, and to a slightly lesser extent Europe, is being flooded with this Mexican heroin as a direct result of the attempt to undercut American pharmaceutical companies.” DecisionDirectMexicanHeroinDealerPharmaceutical Author:Don Winslow
“I was a drug dealer, so I've killed a lot of people, with drugs. When you're a drug dealer and you see drugs to people and you get them addicted and three or four years later they get killed in a car wreck, I have to answer for that. So, I've hurt a lot of people and done a lot of bad things that I have to answer for.” PeopleDoneHurtCarDrugDealer Author:Sam Childers
“Maybe Japan itself is a little similar in that a lot of young people seem to have a little knowledge but not too much depth. I guess my perception of the art specialists in America or in Europe is that the art people are kind of mainly just the art people and that community is self-contained. But in Japan, it mixes with fashion and other things. I'm sure that many authentic art dealers or insiders didn't like the way that we presented our show in this very pop-y, accessible manner - just showing parts of our collections and selling prints and collaborative products.” PeopleKindArtCommunityFashionPerceptionSellingPrintDealerLittle Knowledge Author:Hiroshi Fujiwara
“I think what happened in the last 10 or 15 years in the art market is that all the players - and that includes artists, dealers, art advisors, everyone - basically became dealers. We've had old-school collectors morph into speculators, flipping works. We've seen auction houses buying works directly from artists or from sleazy middlemen. The last step before the crash was the artists themselves supplying the auction houses. Dealing themselves, you know? The art world is as unregulated as any financial market there is.” ThinkingWorldArtArtistHousePlayerFinancialCrashDealer Author:Diego Cortez
“I hate when dealers talk to me. I love dealers - they're some of our favorite people in the art world. But I hate if they do a sales pitch on me. I can't stand it.” PeopleWorldArtHateI HateDealerTalk To Me Author:Jerry Saltz
“Any critic will tell you that there are a few dealers where you get a little bit scared to go into their gallery, and that's unfair to them, to yourself, to the reader, and to the artist. But I just want to look. When I'm done looking and writing, I love talking to art dealers. They are so alive and interesting and amazing - from Larry Gagosian all the way on down.” WritingArtDoneArtistInterestingCriticsScaredUnfairDealer Author:Jerry Saltz
“I wish there were fewer art dealers. I wish there were fewer auctions. I wish there were just two auctions a year. It's just too much. And at the end of the day, if you're a dealer and a professional, fine, that's your business, that's all you do. But as an individual, if you're not a dealer and it's not your business, you need time for these things. You need time to study what's happening. You need time to understand the market. You need time to go to a museum. You need time to see a show. You can't go to one every day. It's becoming a trend.” ArtIndividualWishStudyDealerTime Of Need Author:Laurence Graff
“I think being from Iran sharpened my eye as an art dealer. This is why, today, I think the true definition of so-called postmodernism is the acceptance that we cannot go by old models any longer. The old models were based upon a single narrative of development that happened along a singular path. In the 20th century, you have electricity, you have transportation by plane, you have the telephone and all the various media that developed, you have a multiplicity of events and voices and creativities that are happening all around the world-and that multiplicity escalated after the war.” ThinkingArtWarEyeTodayCreativityPathAcceptanceVariousElectricity20th CenturyTransportationDealerMultiplicityPostmodernism Author:Tony Shafrazi