Ads Quotes - Page 23

• One would think America big enough to set aside wilderness preserves for the many of our citizens who seek to escape the incessant crowd, to search for solace in solitude amidst a sanctuary far removed from the banality of beer ads and cigarette commercials.

  Frank Church

  Beer, Thinking, America

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• I ad lib most of my dialogue. If I did remember my lines, it would be too bad for me.

  W. C. Fields

  Would Be, Lines, Remember

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• Any ad consciously attended to is comical. Ads are not meant for conscious consumption. They are intended as subliminal pills for the subconsious in order to exercise an hypnotic spell, especially on sociologists.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Exercise, Order, Pills

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• I was last in Rome in AD 540 when it was full of Goths and their heavy horses. It has changed a great deal since then.

  Robert Graves

  Horse, Rome, Lasts

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• Even if, as is generally the case, everything that the ad says about the product is scrupulously honest, or at any rate scrupulously avoids outright dishonesty, the implication of the direct address of most commercials - that the announcer speaks with the viewer's welfare at heart - is fraudulent.

  Michael Schudson

  Heart, Addresses, Honest

  Michael Schudson (2013). “Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society”, p.33, Routledge

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• I've often been described more than once in my life as very much like a golden retriever. Just sort of happy and excited to do whatever it is even if it's as simple as retrieving a ball and bringing it back ad nauseum.

  Chris Carmack

  Simple, Golden Retrievers, Balls

  "Nashville's Chris Carmack on The O.C. and the rules of the death row meal". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. September 22, 2015.

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• I'd trained to be a diplomat but the state department said I was too liberal. I saw an ad in the New York Times ... a hack Californian editor came to New York to butcher some films and he needed an assistant. For some reason I read it that day and it changed my life. I went to work for him and he was horrible, butchering these masterpieces by Antonioni, Visconti, but I learned enough to know what he was doing wrong.

  Thelma Schoonmaker

  New York, Editors, Diplomats

  Source: www.fluxmagazine.com

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• when I moved to Canada in '93, I started reading fashion magazines, and that's where I spotted the M.A.C ad that RuPaul were in. That's sort of how I first "met" you - in the red bodysuit. That was so iconic to me.

  Jason Wu

  Fashion, Reading, Magazines

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The second [argument about motion] is the so-called Achilles, and it amounts to this, that in a race the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.
  Statement of the Achilles and the Tortoise paradox in the relation of the discrete to the continuous.; perhaps the earliest example of the reductio ad absurdum method of proof.

  Zeno of Elea

  Science, Race, Example

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• Therefore, a grotesque account of a period some thousands of years ago is taken seriously though it be built by piling special assumptions on special assumptions, ad hoc hypothesis [invented for a purpose] on ad hoc hypothesis, and tearing apart the fabric of science whenever it appears convenient. The result is a fantasia which is neither history nor science.

  James Bryant Conant

  Taken, Years, Special

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• In the last couple of weeks I have seen the ads for the Wonder Bra.
  Is that really a problem in this country? Men not paying enough attention to women’s breasts?

  Hugh Grant

  Funny, Country, Couple

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• We didn't realize it at the time, but the release date, the ad campaign and the poster are so important.

  David Zucker

  Release Date, Dating, Important

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What is God looking for in the world? Assistants? No.
  The gospel is not a help-wanted ad. It is a help-available ad. God is not looking for people to work for Him but people who let Him work mightily in and through them.

  John Piper

  People, World, Assistants

  John Piper (2013). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry”, p.56, B&H Publishing Group

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• Everything about it worked, and I don't mean just the movie, but in our experience, we realized there's also a component of luck involved in this business. We had absolutely the most competent people in the studio working on the release and ad campaign.

  David Zucker

  Business, Mean, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Being a good Hans Haacke student, part of his influence on me is that there's no difference between a gallery show and a film - or even an ad and a T-shirt-in terms of cultural legitimacy. They're just different contexts in which to have some sort of communication.

  Mike Mills

  Communication, Differences, Different

  Interview With Brendan Fowler, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2009.

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• The strategy of Tumblr is very elegant.. The atomic unit of user experience is the same as the ads.

  Fred Wilson

  Strategy, User Experience, Units

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• People ask 'How does doing a film compare to doing an ad?' Well, when you're doing a commercial you don't have to sell tickets. You have a captured audience. Which is actually completely rare and great; it gives you a lot of freedom. When you make a film, you have to do advertisements for the film.

  Mike Mills

  People, Giving, Tickets

  Interview With Brendan Fowler, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2009.

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• Every ad for every film is exactly the same.

  Robert Altman

  Film

  "Robert Altman: What I've Learned" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• I saw a want ad. "light housekeeping." They said "Here, change this bulb." I said "I'll need some friends."

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Light

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• I'm a chronic ad-libber. So whoever hires me, often to their chagrin, should know that I will be talking a bunch of smack.

  Jay Baruchel

  Talking, Should, Bunch

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. March 10, 2010.

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• As for editorial content, that's the stuff you separate the ads with.

  Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet

  Stuff, Editorials

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• Classified ads of the Ku Klux Klan: Tired of all the games? Do you like racial purity, horses and dressing up like a ghost?

  Dana Gould

  Horse, Tired, Games

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• Eddie Izzard is doing his show in French... Will he be able to fake ad-lib as well in other languages? He's been speaking French for a while now, but he's talking about doing his act in German. Haven't the German people suffered enough?

  Andy Kindler

  Talking, People, Fake

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• Few parents teach their children how phoney the ads on TV are, how many lies and exaggerations they contain. How could they? These parents were also raised on television ballyhoo.

  Louise Hay

  Children, Lying, Parent

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• A lot of weird ads. Sally Struthers with that little kid: 'Just 55 cents, the price of a cup of coffee, feeds this kid and his family for a week.' Yeah, where is that? 'Cause I wanna move there.

  Robert Schimmel

  Coffee, Moving, Kids

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