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1. "A shift in class values occurs in black life when integration comes and with it the idea that money is the primary marker of individual success, not how one acquires money. Adopting that worldview changed the dynamics of work in black communities. Black men who could show they had money (no matter how they acquired it) could be among the powerful. It was this thinking that allowed hustlers in black communities to be seen as just as hardworking as their Wall Street counterparts."
Author: Bell Hooks
2. "New York is traditional New York, you know what I'm saying? It's the stomping ground of the hustlers and go-getters."
Author: Busta Rhymes
3. "Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent."
Author: Frank Sinatra
4. "I was what they call a pool hustler. That's absolutely true. For long periods of time I got by, barely skimmed by, just playing pool."
Author: George Miller
5. "In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are."
Author: Gore Vidal
6. "Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a grown-up body wondering if anybody is listening."
Author: Herbert Gold
7. "Chico was a small-time hustler and big-time loser who liked to bet the ponies and hit women. He was more successful at the latter."
Author: J.A. Konrath
8. "I'm a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well!"
Author: Jay Z
9. "I would say I was always very ambitious and goal-oriented, but rather than being just a go-getter hustler, now I surrender a lot more and I trust my path a lot more."
Author: Jenna Dewan
10. "I don't care what a man is as long as he treats me right. He can be a gambler, a hustler, someone everybody else thinks is obnoxious, I don't care so long as he's straight with me and our dealings are fair."
Author: Joe Namath
11. "I met a hustler at a dinner party. He had been invited because I was looking for an adviser to help me with the street scenes. So we put him on the film."
Author: John Schlesinger
12. "Wherever you were born and whatever you did, pool hustler, showgirl, tonight, you were a rancher's woman and just like you, when you do somethin', you're the best there is."
Author: Kristen Ashley
13. "Every sucessful person in the world is a hustler one way or another. We all hustle to get where we need to be. Only a fool would sit around and wait on another man to feed him."
Author: K'wan
14. "It's not wrong to hustle hustlers. It's like killing murderers, a public service. -Damon Salvatore"
Author: L.J. Smith
15. "I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive."
Author: Larry Flynt
16. "As an actress, I have put myself out there as an independent black woman, a single mom, a go-getter, a hustler who isn't afraid to survive."
Author: LisaRaye McCoy Misick
17. "What makes a good salesperson? Let me be clear that it's not the person who can talk someone into anything. It's not the hustler who is a smooth talker. The best salespeople are the ones who put themselves in their customer's shoes and provide a solution that makes the customer happy."
Author: Mark Cuban
18. "I was a comfort factor. I'm not a hustler."
Author: Mary Matalin
19. "Focused. I'm a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like without having to do much else."
Author: Mos Def
20. "And when I read one of those scapegoat pieces about the "viciousness" of drug pushers, and extolling the basic humanitarianism of the nark-squad hero, I'm saddened. Because it isn't Margo and it isn't Max who keeps the traffic moving: it's that same nark-squad hero with a small, brown paper bag that hustlers and pushers alike have to keep filled if they want to stay on the street."
Author: Nelson Algren
21. "The dark is settling in. The sky glows yellow- pale- anemic from the city lights. The Tenderloin at night is a real horror show. Every 3 feet someone is accosting you with a plea for a handout or the offer of drug or sex. The men and women wander the streets and alleys with a threatening, violont want. Takers looking to take, hustlers looking to hustle, all trying to satisfy a craving that is parpatually unsatisfiable. And tonight I'm one of them."
Author: Nic Sheff
22. "Kara didn't feel like a dial and go coke pusher but she was a supremely good hustler"
Author: Saira Viola
23. "One movie I come back to time and again is 'The Hustler.' I don't think there's better dialogue in any film."
Author: Simon Kinberg
24. "Excerpt from page 3 of "Wicked Washington"Shelly Williams, the main character, speaking about her life:And close and dangerous calls were almost my last name. Yet I felt as comfortable among the street hustlers, junkies, thieves, and criminals of D.C. as I did dining with mywhite-collar, college-pedigreed friends over filet mignon, Maine lobster, and strawberry cheesecake at LaMermaidSeafood Restaurant."
Author: Sonja D. Jones
25. "I could never drive in a great big car; people like me because I'm a man of the people, a hustler."
Author: Terry McAuliffe
26. "What do you call sneaking out before the sun comes up?" "Punctual," she decided. "I had things to do." "We had things to do." Heat settled low in her belly. "Did we? I don't recall you making an appointment." "Keep running that mouth, hustler," he rasped beside her ear, making her shiver. "I've been impatient to fuck you for days. If you keep taunting me, I'll have no choice but to assume you want it as rough and dirty as I can give it. And, baby?" He nipped her ear. "I saw the way your back arched and your thighs squeezed together when you heard my voice behind you. I know how bad you want it."
Author: Tessa Bailey
27. "After school, I'd wait for someone to pick me up and no one would, so I'd be like, 'I guess I'll walk home.' I had to be a hustler, because nobody did anything for me."
Author: Whitney Cummings
28. "Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside."
Author: William S. Burroughs
29. "I just think a hustler's ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I'll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I'm their hero."
Author: Young Jeezy

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