The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.
Peter Ustinov

The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.
Barry Gibb

The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial language, a rent; and under the same head must be ranked all extraordinary qualities of body and mind.
Nassau William Senior

The reason we shot it was that the script was geared to Las Vegas and it was something commercial that we wanted to have in the can in case Butterfly was a success and we needed a follow-up.
Pia Zadora

The studios are very much business. Maybe it was always that way. It is really commercial now. Judgments are made and directions are given to make the cash register ring.
Dianne Wiest

The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial; it was something very personal to me.
Enya

The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic because it is viewed as an art form and also as an industry with a pure commercial base.
Ann Macbeth

The threat to globalization is not the wasted American dollars but Washington's readiness to mix US commercial interests with its self-appointed role as global protector.
William Greider

The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally during the past year that the crop has acquired a commercial standing far in excess of its previous status.
David F. Houston

The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial interests got all the licenses with no public input, no congressional input for that matter.
Robert McChesney

Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals.
William Graham Sumner

There are many kinds of movies in Hong Kong. Some are commercial and others are more artistic.
Andy Lau

There are people that bring artists to me to look at it and it's a question of whether I like their music and their look and if I think there's something they have that makes them different and commercial.
Kenneth Edmonds

There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.
John McLaughlin

There is no bird flu in commercial stocks.
Michael E. Mann

This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo.
Derek Walcott

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.
Frank Dane

To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.
Ken Burns

Today films are made to cater to commercial markets created by multiplexes, not for those who enjoy good cinema.
Sunny Deol

Today the American knight holds the commercial supremacy of the world.
Betsy Ross