Ads Quotes

• A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.

  Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

  Wise, Witty, Business

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• I love milk so much! I make a point of drinking a glass of milk every day. So now anyone who did those milk ads with the milk mustaches, they're my heroes.

  Natalie Portman

  Drinking, Hero, Glasses

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• I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good ad.

  Leo Burnett

  Writing, Speech, Advertising

  Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

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• There's a reason people run negative ads... it's because they work.

  Anne Northup

  Running, People, Negative

  "Freshman Rep. Anne Northup Wins GOP Attention with Flair" by Susan Crabtree, www.questia.com.

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• These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries.

  Thomas Frank

  Focus, Computer, Internet

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• Television doesn't want to admit it has those dreadful roach ads on anyway.

  Michael O'Donoghue

  Roaches, Television, Want

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• Its a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies.

  Iris Chang

  Baby, Couple, White

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• I never liked filming the ads, but they were so well received.

  Frank Perdue

  Wells

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• The ads all call me fearless, but that's just publicity. Anyone who thinks I'm not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am.

  Jackie Chan

  Thinking, Fearless, Mind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make.

  William Bernbach

  Running, Business, Numbers

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• Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. It's just like a newspaper that publishes classified ads.

  David Boies

  Technology, Data, People

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• It's the relationships between people that are more important than the sort of far away fantasies of what the good life is, the world of supermodels and Bud ads.

  Mira Sorvino

  Good Life, People, Important

  "'Beautiful Girls' a Valentine's Day film with a message". www.cnn.com. February 9, 1996.

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• The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil.

  Jeff Bezos

  Business, Home, Vacation

  "The inner Bezos" by Chip Bayers, www.wired.com. March 1, 1999.

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• But the real intent of my writing is not to say, you must think in this way. The real intent is to enrich: here are some of the many important facets of this extraordinary Kosmos; have you thought of including them in your worldview? My work is an attempt to make room in the Kosmos for all the dimensions, levels, domains, waves, memes, modes, individuals, cultures, and so on ad infinitum.

  Ken Wilber

  Real, Writing, Thinking

  Ken Wilber (2001). “A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality”, p.140, Shambhala Publications

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• Despite what anti-aging ads say, growing older can be better. I feel better in my skin, 100 percent. You have greater effects of gravity, but the better sense of yourself you have is something I wouldn't trade. Women who lie about their age - 'why?'

  Demi Moore

  Lying, Feel Better, Age

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• Why one Ad is worth more to a paper than 40 Editorials.

  Will Rogers

  Paper, Advertising, Forty

  "The Illiterate Digest".

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• The real fact of the matter is that nobody reads ads. People read what interests them, and sometimes it's an ad.

  Howard Gossage

  Wise, Witty, Real

  Howard Luck Gossage, Kim B. Rotzoll, Jarlath Graham, June Barrows Mussey (1986). “Is there any hope for advertising?”, Univ of Illinois Pr

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• Too many people, including the ad industry, believe the future is something that happens and just rolls them over in it's wake.

  Cindy Gallop

  Believe, Creativity, People

  "Cindy Gallop: it's time to rethink the advertising business" by Chris Smith, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2012.

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• The White House begun airing their TV commercials to re-elect the president, and the John Kerry campaign is condemning his use of 9/11 in the ads. He said, it is unconscionable to use the tragic memory of a war in order to get elected, unless of course, it's the Vietnam War.

  Jay Leno

  Memories, War, Order

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• And let's be clear: It's not enough just to limit ads for foods that aren't healthy. It's also going to be critical to increase marketing for foods that are healthy.

  Michelle Obama

  Healthy, Marketing, Limits

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• Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Reflection, Faithful, One Day

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• I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Real, Done

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• The cave art of Madison Avenue has been by far the most innovative and educative art form of the twentieth century.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Business, Caves

  "Culture Is Our Business". Book by Marshall McLuhan, 1970.

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• There should be a background check every time a firearm is transferred. You shouldn't be able to go to a gun show and buy guns without a background check. There are Internet gun sales, classified ads in the newspapers - and you can buy guns without background checks.

  Michael D. Barnes

  Gun, Able, Internet

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• I also do not like the idea of soft money, these issue ads - people don't know where the money is coming from, millions and millions of dollars outside of the control of a candidate - there's no accountability.

  Scott McCallum

  Ideas, Issues, People

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