#mercenary

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#mercenary #music #music

Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't. ↗

— David Gill

#mercenary #out #people #players #quite

I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter. ↗

— Maureen O'Hara

#che #deal #far #far less #fighter

I've made peace with myself. Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win. Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting. ↗

— Joe Abercrombie

#mercenary #resignation #inner-peace

Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out there already. ↗

— Tommy Shaw

#already #because #finished #frame #joke

Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers. ↗

— Alma Gluck

#day #every #every day #fairly #inspired

Pro basketball is a very mercenary endeavor. ↗

— Rick Majerus

#endeavor #mercenary #pro #very

A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will in time produce a people as base as itself. ↗

— Joseph Pulitzer

#cynical #itself #mercenary #people #press

Music is my love and to me acting is more mercenary. I don't pound the pavements for roles: if it happens, it happens. I hate that auditioning thing. ↗

— David Johansen

#auditioning #happens #hate #i #love

Hi. I'm here to enlist. You can't. You aren't human. You see, little fella, we don't do sociological stuff like "interspeciated workplaces." We're a crack company of space mercenaries. We do "hurting people" and "breaking things." Sounds like my kind of fun. -Schlock & Lieutenant Der Trihs ↗

— Howard Tayler

#humour #mercenary #violence #sociology