Traded Quotes

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A silent gesture can convey more in a flash than a minute of spoken dialogue. Unlike most actors, who resist directors cutting their lines, I have spent my whole career filleting mine. There are few directors who have not seen my cuts as improvements. Steven Spielberg paid me the ultimate compliment on Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) by adopting nine out of ten of my ideas that traded dialogue for added visual interaction.

- Sean Connery

My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.

- Lenny Kravitz

When Wayne was traded, I became captain. For me it really wasn`t anything - I didn`t do anything or I didn`t feel I had to do anything different than what I had been doing all along.

- Mark Messier

The danger that we have right now are people who get the same information as I do and, therefore, think they`ll reach the same conclusions that haven`t traded as long, don`t have bear claws up and down their backs like I do.

- Jim Cramer

When I got traded to the California Angels, I really wasn`t that excited about going to the Angels because it meant changing leagues and also a whole new set of teammates. But shortly after I got there I realized that it was one of the best things that ever happened to me.

- Nolan Ryan

Happy Days was a wonderful, wonderful experience and I would not have traded it for the world.

- Marion Ross

I think it was more joking than anything else. The fans know the game and what went on. To me, you get traded for a guy like that, it`s a compliment, and it gives me an incentive to keep working hard.

- Dave Williams

Just because I got traded doesn`t mean we`ll be able to compete with the Spurs and the Pistons right away.

- Jalen Rose

It was a tough time. Eddie was the starter, I was the backup. Fortunately, Mike traded me to Buffalo and it was good luck for me. Finally, I proved to myself I could be a starting goalie.

- Dominik Hasek

I kind of thought I might get traded, it was not a total shock. I`m very excited to be here, getting a chance with very good players. I think I try to give offensive support but don`t be too much of a liability on the defensive end.

- Sandis Ozolinsh

Nothing has really changed. I`m going to play my best. This is a contract year so I`m going to give it all I`ve got. I still believe that the odds of me being here by the All-Star break are pretty much zero. If I do get traded, hopefully I`d go to a contender. To be honest, I`m actually tired of talking about it.

- Aubrey Huff

The Twins became too nice when they traded A.J.. We had an edge to the way we played with A.J. You could see it in the Twins this season. There was no edge to that team.

- Doug Mientkiewicz

Izzy told me the first time you`re traded or released and go somewhere else is the hardest. After that, it`s no problem. I can now understand why people say that. It wasn`t hard making an adjustment. It was just different.

- Mark Mulder

I think I was getting too old for them, ... The new girl is 21 so, yeah, that must be it. They quite literally traded me in for a younger model - slightly less bags and slightly less cellulite.

- Amanda Lamb

As kids, we traded `I like Ike` and `All the way with Adlai` buttons in elementary school.

- Andrea Mitchell

Mike had been looking for a new contract and really had endured a lot of unfair criticism for holding out in Green Bay and a lot of people questioned his decision. He got the last laugh. In effect, he got traded and he got the new contact that he wanted. For those people that were knocking and ridiculing him for holding out and questioning his logic, he landed with the team that he was real excited about playing for and he landed a contract that he felt comfortable with and pays him like the elite corners in the league.

- Drew Rosenhaus

Although lots of companies are supplying natural ingredients, most of them offer the same ones. There are roughly 500 natural products traded in Europe. Yet around 100,000 plants are used locally around the world for food or medicine and few of these are in commercial use.

- John Wilkinson

Unprecedented levels of unfairly traded imports continue to flood our markets. We renew our request that the Administration fully enforce our nation`s trade laws and support recently introduced legislation intended to restore a level playing field in steel trade matters.

- Peter Kelly

In the 1990s, Russian stocks traded at low valuations because everyone was worried about being robbed by the oligarchs. Now everyone is worried about being robbed by the government.

- Martin Taylor

A lot of people are trading in cars they normally wouldn`t have traded in to take advantage of employee pricing. So now we`ve got cleaner used cars - so now the used car business has picked back up.

- Bobby Collins

Officers and directors of publicly traded companies who steer shareholders` money into their pockets should not lie to the board of directors to get permission to do so.

- Patrick Fitzgerald

One time they traded me for seven horses. Seven stunt horses.

- James Stewart

Barge shipping costs have exploded. Right now, barge freight has traded at a record high, from the Ohio (River) to New Orleans.

- David Marshall

(Dribblers: Flores said Sacramento`s charge into the playoffs was fueled by a dominant starting rotation, but the River Cats are heading for the postseason on fumes. Starters Dan Meyer, Seth Etherton, Ryan Glynn and John Rheinecker are all currently injured. ... Orioles outfielder Eric Byrnes, who was traded from the A`s in July, snapped an 0-for-15 slide against his former team Friday night with a bunt single in the seventh inning.) First bunt single of my career, ... Desperate measures for desperate times. If the situation calls for it, I`ll do it again, too.

- Angela Smith

What`s happening now is that the market remains trading at very thin volumes and that can affect prices, even when just a handful of shares are traded, ... The decision of any fund to pull out from certain stock hits the price.

- Annie Besant

They`re probably geared more and being used more by traders, and one of the reasons is that they actually cost more than a similar, non- traded mutual fund. It`s interesting that the need it`s servicing is different from the one that`s being promoted.

- Artemio Madrigal

The workers in the plant, the public and certainly the victims and their families really deserve to know everything that OSHA found before some of it was traded away behind closed doors.

- Audree Halasz

They traded me because they thought it was better for the team. It was better for me because I got a chance to play every day in one position, and then they go and sign me for four years. What else can you want?

- Avi Farhan

As soon as we have market makers, banks will be given freedom to price dollars against yuan. They would definitely create a market. We expect the margin in which the yuan is traded will widen.

- Barbara Gross

After the Cardinals traded (their No. 6 pick), I didn`t know where I was going, ... The first thing I thought about was me and Ray Lewis doing that commercial, and how he made me do his laundry. And now it`s actually going to be a reality.

- Barbara Nestor

All of your titles are great, but I would have traded all of them to win this one. This is the major of majors. For us, it`s the one everybody wants to win. I got the monkey off my back about not winning any majors.

- Barham Salih