Ads Quotes - Page 3

• Ads featuring real women and real beauty are such a necessary component to offset the potentially dangerous programming out there for little girls.

  Rashida Jones

  Girl, Real, Littles

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• Science has yet to isolate the Godiva Chocolate or Prada gene, but that doesn't mean your weakness for pricey swag isn't woven into your DNA. According to a new study of identical twins, it's less TV ads or Labor Day sales that make you buy the things you do than the tastes and temperaments that are already part of you at birth.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Mean, Dna, Swag

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• We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions.

  Eric Liu

  Positive, Dirty, Naughty

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• President Obama's version of America is a divided one - pitting us against each other based on our income level, gender, and social status. His policies have failed! We are not better off than we were 4 years ago, and no rhetoric, bumper sticker, or campaign ad can change that.

  Mia Love

  Years, America, President

  "Convention speech highlights Mia Love’s GOP rise". Mia Love's speech during the Republican National Convention at the Tampa Bay Times Forum in Tampa, Florida, dailycaller.com. August 28, 2012.

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• I showed what I can do with butter, right? Eighty-five percent increase in sales. I'm very proud of them Country Life ads. They were funny and clever and classy like the Toblerone ads I grew up with.

  John Lydon

  Country, Clever, Proud

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• Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Writing, Magazines, Care

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• Modern cosmetic surgeons have a direct financial interest in a social role for women that requires them to feel ugly. They do not simply advertise for a share of a market that already exists: Their advertisements create new markets. It is a boom industry because it is influentially placed to create its own demand through the pairing of text with ads in women's magazines. The industry takes out ads and gets coverage; women get cut open. They pay their money and they takes their chances. As surgeons grow richer, they are able to command larger and brighter ad spaces.

  Naomi Wolf

  Cutting, Space, Roles

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• I'll tell you what I probably would prefer to happen less and less: actors that I know and respect in shampoo ads. Or modeling.

  Sean Penn

  Actors, Shampoo, Modeling

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• We do not see the danger clearly enough that we develop images adequate to our state of civilization. When you watch TV, you know instantly that there's something wrong with the images. When you open a magazine and see the ads, you know there's something wrong with the images. And it's unhealthy and not good and outright dangerous, in my opinion.

  Werner Herzog

  Civilization, Tvs, Watches

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. June 11, 2003.

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• There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past.

  William Bernbach

  Past, Design, Research

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• Microsoft was not a mysterious, strange entity. You put your PC on and there's an ad for them.

  Jim Cramer

  Microsoft, Strange, Mysterious

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• 'Brave' is one of those words that has been bleached of most of its meaning these days, thanks to far too many appearances in the glaring light of ad slogans and corporate public relations. I never thought about anything as brave anymore; it just seemed like a flabby, glib cliche.

  Susan Orlean

  Light, Brave, Thanks

  "Tim Hetherington, “Restrepo,” and Bravery" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. April 21, 2011.

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• Now I can broadcast to an audience of several million people on the 'Today' programme. I can talk about the day's news. But on radio, believe it or not, we have notes and scripts. And while we might ad lib the odd wryly amusing asides, they come at the frequency of a suburban bus. About one every 90 minutes.

  Evan Davis

  Believe, People, News

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• Thanks to capitalism, the importance placed on beauty has never been so manipulated. We are the guinea pigs force-fed ads that tell us how pathetic we are: that we will never be loved, happy or valuable unless we have the body, the face, the hair, even the personality that will apparently be ours, if only we buy their products.

  Beth Ditto

  Hair, Pigs, Personality

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2007.

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• When I think of invention, I always think of America. You're always seeing ads: 'Have you got the next big idea?' There seems to be that spirit in America of inventions and inventors.

  Simon Cowell

  Thinking, America, Ideas

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• I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads, because the culture of advertising is so false and phony that I just... ugh, you know?

  Alan Ball

  Watches, Culture, Ugh

  "True Blood creator Alan Ball on season two: sink your teeth into this". Interview with Rebecca Nicholson, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2010.

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• I like to read the 'Financial Times' when I'm traveling. 'Economist.' 'Ad Busters.'

  Mos Def

  Financial, Busters, Economist

  "FEATURE: Mos Def, Quiet As Kept 2.0". XXL Magazine Interview, www.xxlmag.com. June 15, 2009.

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• The thing is, I was on YouTube like the golden era, I think. Before ads came in, it was really cool back then.

  Bo Burnham

  Thinking, Golden, Eras

  Source: www.uloop.com

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• If you have a native monetization system where the atomic unit of content is the ad unit, that scales down all the way to a small screen experience. That's why Twitter is performing so well on mobile.

  Fred Wilson

  Way, Scales, Performing

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• Blog-based businesses have lower cost structures and are more 'authentic,' and as a result are drawing larger shares of ad budgets.

  Fred Wilson

  Drawing, Cost, Share

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• I've done many ads because that's my new career. It's an inspiring extension for my mind.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Careers, Mind, Done

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• TiVo and other digital recording devices have confounded advertisers. The ad industry sees the technology as a threat to their product.

  Simon Sinek

  Technology, Digital, Threat

  "The Ad Industry Needs More Accountability" by Simon Sinek, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2010.

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• When there are tiers of meaning in an ad it intrigues the audience and they look for it again and again.

  William Shatner

  Looks, Intrigue, Audience

  Adweek, Volume 48, Issues 14-26, VNU Business Publications, p. 21, 2007.

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• Ads need to be little pieces of entertainment.

  William Shatner

  Needs, Pieces, Littles

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• The once inviolate frame within which programs or commercials were displayed on television - always separately - has been violated to a pulp. Program content is seen increasingly as a mere backdrop on which ads are posted like billboards on a fence.

  Tom Shales

  Television, Fence, Program

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