Advertising Quotes - Page 14

• Production goes up and up because high pressure advertising and salesmanship constantly create new needs that must be satisfied: this is Admass- a consumer's race with donkeys chasing an electric carrot.

  J. B. Priestley

  Race, Needs, Pressure

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• To ensure that no one gained an advantage over anyone else, commercial law prohibited innovation in tools or techniques, underselling below a fixed price, working late by artificial light, employing extra apprentices or wife and under-age children, and advertising of wares or praising them to the detriment of others.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Children, Light, Law

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• Digital advertising is now larger than TV.

  Henry Blodget

  Digital, Tvs, Digital Media

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• Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists.

  Sara Sheridan

  Writing, Thinking, Novelists

  "Opinion: literary and commercial writers should lay down their arms" by Sara Sheridan, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2011.

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• I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.

  Jan Karon

  Age, Clock, Eighteen

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• I learned not to be so bitterly defeated when my fiction took a beating from editors. I learned in advertising to color in the lines and have my work done on time and to make it the very best it could be.

  Jan Karon

  Color, Editors, Fiction

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• They wouldn't play my records on American radio because I had spiky hair. They said, 'Punk rock doesn't sell advertising, it won't make any money.'

  Billy Idol

  Hair, Rocks, Play

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

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• You start losing a client the moment you get it.

  Jay Chiat

  Clients, Losing, Moments

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• How big can we get before we get bad?

  Jay Chiat

  Bigs

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• My real talent was for losing clients.

  Jay Chiat

  Real, Clients, Losing

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• You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern.

  Ann Macbeth

  Directors, World, Patterns

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• The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.

  Nat King Cole

  Agency, Prejudice, Tvs

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• The vast majority of Americans agree with us. We're doing everything that we can. We're advertising, right now we're on television with an advertisement running in the Washington area. We've got newspaper ads.

  Michael D. Barnes

  Running, Majority, Television

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• A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Done, Firsts, Advertisements

  "I don't want to be a dictator or to be adored" by Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2004.

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• Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public.

  Michael Schudson

  Wonder, Advertising Agencies, Advertisements

  Michael Schudson (2013). “Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society”, p.26, Routledge

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• It's crucial to keep in mind that the hundreds of millions of dollars now spent on prescription drug advertisements are ultimately paid for by consumers in the form a higher drug prices.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Drug, Mind, Dollars

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• There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things.

  William Dean Howells

  Filled Up, World, Rooms

  William Dean Howells (2015). “Of Literature”, p.407, Simon and Schuster

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• By 1980, when I came out of prison, The Sun did a campaign to stop putting vice girls in prison. We've talked about it ever since and nothing has been done about it.

  Cynthia Payne

  Girl, Vices, Campaigns

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• I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste.

  Rocco DiSpirito

  Wealth Of Knowledge, Understanding, Tables

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• You have to be very rich to afford Labour, with 66 tax rises since they came in power.

  John Redwood

  Rich, Taxes, Labour

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• I love the TV show, and if you make a bad movie it means you've soiled it. Just like if we made an advert. We were offered so many times and I'd say, look, this is the good thing, and you can't compromise that, because then you compromise the integrity of the characters.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Integrity, Character, Mean

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

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• At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other.

  William Adams

  People, Understanding, Able

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• I remember those great days when we were at $176 million before the Reagan Revolution came to town.

  Norm Dicks

  Great Day, Towns, Revolution

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• I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through.

  David Selby

  Way, Different, Television

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• Jackson was not a religious man when he came to Lexington.

  Daniel Harvey Hill

  Religious, Men, Lexington

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