Ads Quotes - Page 13

With all their attack ads, the President is just throwing away money...and he's pretty experienced at that.

Paul Ryan

President, Politics, Republican

Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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Recent presidents have gone off on ad hoc adventures. They have set unattainable goal because they have framed the issue incorrectly, as they believed their own rhetoric.

George Friedman

Adventure, Issues, Goal

George Friedman (2011). “The Next Decade: Where We've Been . . . and Where We're Going”, p.3, Anchor

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I just saw an ad the other day that I couldn't believe. There was this woman-and I think it's degrading to womankind-she was going out of her mind over a new product called "A Thousand Flushes." Here she was in her toilet, saying, "Oh, I love this product!" and, "My life is complete!" Good God-if your joy depends on "A Thousand Flushes," you're sick!

Leo Buscaglia

Believe, Thinking, Sick

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In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important, will be picked up ad hoc in each avocation of life, but the habit of the active utilization of well-understood principles is the final possession of WISDOM.

Alfred North Whitehead

Important, Principles, Details

Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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I want girls to feel that they can be sassy and full and weird and geeky and smart and independent, and not so withered and shriveled. (The American Apparel ads) I'm over this weird, exhausted girl. I'm over the girl that's tired and freezing and hungry. I like bossy girls. I like people filled with life. I'm over this weird media thing with all this, like, hollow-eyed, empty, party crap.

Amy Poehler

Girl, Smart, Party

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Make something happen today, before you go home, before the end of the week. Launch that idea, post that post, run that ad, call that customer. Go the edge, that edge you've been holding back from... and do it today. Without waiting for the committee or your boss or the market. Just go.

Seth Godin

Running, Home, Ideas

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If you have all the research, all the ground rules, all the directives, all the data - it doesn't mean the ad is written. Then you've got to close the door and write something - that is the moment of truth which we all try to postpone as long as possible.

David Ogilvy

Business, Writing, Mean

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WE DIE. You will never hear those words spoken in a television ad. Yet this central fact of human existence colors our world and how we perceive ourselves within it.

Christopher Locke

Death, Color, Our World

Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls (2009). “The Cluetrain Manifesto”, p.73, Basic Books

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With this new initiative, Disney is doing what no major media company has ever done before in the United States. And what I hope every company will do going forward when it comes to the ads they show and the food they sell they're asking themselves one simple question: Is this good for our kids?

Michelle Obama

Children, Kids, Simple

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An ad hominem attack against an individual, not against an idea, is highly flattering. It indicates that the person does not have anything intelligent to say about your message.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Intelligent, Ideas, Doe

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I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they're feeling because that's how I read the seed catalogs in January.

Barbara Kingsolver

Heart, Eye, Hands

Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.46, Faber & Faber

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If you'd put it in a Powerpoint deck don't put it in your ad

Lee Clow

Deck, Powerpoint, Ifs

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What does it mean when you hook up your work to that of a late modernist giant working in a reductive vein - Ad Reinhardt, Agnes Martin, Robert Ryman, Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella, or Donald Judd, for example - like a caboose? I am not talking about engaging directly with another artist's work or ideas, but of perpetuating a look or, in the case of Wade Guyton, the various monochromatic, striped and geometric surfaces we associate with Minimalism.

John Yau

Mean, Artist, Talking

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The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers around us - it's all junk, all trash, tidbits of news. The average TV ad has 120 images a minute. Everything just falls off your mind. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Ray Bradbury

Country, Book, Fall

"Bradbury Still Believes In Heat Of `Fahrenheit 451'" by Misha Berson, community.seattletimes.nwsource.com. March 12, 1993.

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The internet is watching us now. If they want to. They can see what sites you visit. In the future, television will be watching us, and customizing itself to what it knows about us. The thrilling thing is, that will make us feel we're part of the medium. The scary thing is, we'll lose our right to privacy. An ad will appear in the air around us, talking directly to us.

Steven Spielberg

Air, Talking, Scary

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Most ads are ignored because every customer has a mental filter that evaluates and dismisses both of these languages of Ad-Speak with a single question: What are they not telling me?

Roy H. Williams

Filters, Ignored, Language

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In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason - the director cut according to the script. So, if you ad libbed, you'd be off mike and off camera.

Harry Shearer

Cutting, Years, Cameras

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Ads are baked into content like chocolate chips into a cookie. Except, it’s actually more like raisins into a cookie - because nobody f-‍-‍-ing wants them there.

John Oliver

Chocolate, Cookies, Want

"8 Myths About Native Advertising That Are Almost Entirely Untrue". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2014.

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Dealing with ads is depressing. You don’t make anyone’s life better by making advertisements work better.

Brian Acton

Depressing, Advertisements

"Exclusive: The Rags-To-Riches Tale Of How Jan Koum Built WhatsApp Into Facebook's New $19 Billion Baby" by Parmy Olson, www.forbes.com. February 19, 2014.

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I want to make sure every House Republican is protected from some kind of dishonest, Democratic edge. So, let me say on the record: any ad which quotes what I said on Sunday is a falsehood.

Newt Gingrich

Sunday, House, Records

"Gingrich Admits 'Mistake' Over Ryan Medicare Comments, But Vows Not to Play Washington 'Trivial Pursuit' and 'Gotcha' Games". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. May 17, 2011.

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Ads which ran 30-50 years ago, even a hundred years ago, are often better than those you see today. You’ll get great ideas to use in your marketing.

Ted Nicholas

Years, Ideas, Marketing

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They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for the Oscar and there was no ad in the newspapers to say it was running. So it was literally killed.

Ellen Burstyn

Running, New York, Theatre

"Ellen Burstyn - part two". Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2000.

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...The Chinese in the 9th century AD utilized a book entitled The Thousand Golden Prescriptions, which described how rice polish could be used to cure beri~beri, as well as other nutritional approaches to the prevention and treatment of disease. It was not until twelve centuries later that the cure for beri~beri was discovered in the West, and it acknowledged to be a vitamin B-1 deficiency disease.

Jeffrey Bland

Book, Dark, Chinese

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America Online customers are upset because the company has decided to allow advertising in its chat rooms. I can see why: you got computer sex, you can download pornography, people are making dates with 10 year-olds. Hey, what's this? A Pepsi ad? They're ruining the integrity of the Internet!

Jay Leno

Sex, Integrity, America

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Michael Sunday and I are the original members of the band. We first did it just for charities and benefit concerts. It was very ad-hoc, and before we knew it, we were really a band. We went through several drummers and guitarists before we were happy with the line up.

Peter Tork

Sunday, Guitar, Band

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