Advertising Quotes - Page 40

• All one really requires for putting anything over is enough energy and resistance to keep on plugging the idea. Someone will eventually fall.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Fall, Ideas, Energy

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• Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.

  Adrienne Monnier

  Fashion, Art, Construction Sites

  Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”, p.216, U of Nebraska Press

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• The advertising media in this country continuously informs the American male of his need for indispensable signs of his virility.

  Frances M. Beal

  Country, Media, Males

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• There's no such thing as a war against terrorism. It's idiotic. These are slogans. These are lies. It's advertising, which is the only art form we ever invented and developed.

  Gore Vidal

  Art, Lying, War

  "Gore Vidal on the Media and the American People". Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. August 1, 2012.

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• "Terrorism" is a metaphor, it's an abstract noun. It's like having a war on dandruff. It's something from advertising, it's meaningless.

  Gore Vidal

  War, Nouns, Terrorism

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• Since there is no system of public education, the great majority of my fellow citizens is frighteningly ignorant. They have no idea where Iraq is. They accept as the gospel whatever the government tells them. Good grief, any other normal country would have been against the Iraq war! But we live in an abnormal country, governed by experts in deceptive advertising.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, War, Grief

  "The End of Gore Vidal". Interview with Lila Azam Zanganeh, www.guernicamag.com. August 15, 2012.

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• A lot of people will say, "what's Facebook's business model?" I always find that a kind of funny question. Our business model is out there, which is: we monetize largely through advertising and a little bit through the gift revenue, the virtual gifts we have on our site. I think those continue to be the most promising avenues going forward.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Thinking, People, Littles

  Source: techcrunch.com

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• Politics is not really politics any more. It is run, for the most part, by Madison Avenue advertising firms, who sell politicians to the public the way they sell bars of soap or cans of beer.

  Helen Caldicott

  Running, Beer, Bars

  "If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth". Book by Helen Caldicott, 2009.

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• Just as a salesperson is never extreme or original or overdressed, so the TV retailers never do anything to distract their audiences from the real product, the commercial.

  Jennifer Stone

  Real, Television, Tvs

  Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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• two powerful, opposing forces - one seducing people to eat and the other telling them they are failures if they do - create heartache everywhere.

  Emme

  Powerful, Two, People

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• I have turned down so many major advertising bids because I think either the time isn't right or I'm not.

  Linda Evangelista

  Thinking, Turned Down, Majors

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• Here's what a lot of the media want us to believe: One day, we'll get everything right about our appearance. Our hair will look fabulous, our skin will be smooth and crease-free, men will have perfect six-pack abs and we'll be three sizes smaller than we are now. We'll look so good we'll have made over not just our looks but our lives.

  Myrna Blyth

  Believe, Men, Hair

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• What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things into an end in themselves, a virtue.

  Ann Bridge

  Virtue, Modern, Standards

  Ann Bridge (2013). “Singing Waters”, p.178, A&C Black

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• In Europe, a product must be good, or it will not sell in competition with other products; with you, it is enough to say that it is good, often enough and sufficiently loudly. The keenest competition is not in the making of things but in the advertising of them!

  Ann Bridge

  Europe, Competition, Enough

  Ann Bridge (2013). “Singing Waters”, p.176, A&C Black

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• Advertising ... is a parasitic activity; it forces goods for which there is no real need or demand on a foolish or even a reluctant public, always by appealing to their lower instincts.

  Ann Bridge

  Real, Needs, Demand

  Ann Bridge (2013). “Singing Waters”, p.175, A&C Black

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• advertising confuses values ... By appealing either to fear, or to vanity, or to covetousness, it very skillfully insinuates false values.

  Ann Bridge

  Vanity, Covetousness, Values

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• The more we think we're not affected by media - stereotypes, advertising - the more potential those forms of media have.

  Jennifer Pozner

  Thinking, Media, Stereotype

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• Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that's crazy.

  Ice Cube

  Crazy, People, Bread

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• If we had a truth-in Government act comparable to the truth-in-advertising law, every note issued by the Treasury would be obliged to include a sentence stating: This note will be redeemed with the proceeds from an identical note which will be sold to the public when this one comes due.

  Walter Wriston

  Government, Law, Would Be

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• Fashion is not art. Fashion isnt even culture. Fashion is advertising, and advertising is money. And for every dollar you earn, someone has to pay.

  Gia Carangi

  Fashion, Art, Dollars

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• A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it in a bookstore - those things are going to rapidly diminish as we move to an electronic model.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Moving, Book, Way

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• The more shame, the more clicks. The more clicks, the more advertising dollars.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Dollars, Shame, Clicks

  "The price of shame". Ted Talks, www.ted.com. March 2015.

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• The only thing that really annoys me is when all of a sudden you hear yourself on the radio advertising Smith's tyre shop or Blenkinsop's jam. They simply can't do that. And in Australia, occasionally I have to take action.

  Richie Benaud

  Australia, Jam, Tyres

  Interview With Jim White, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2001.

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• I am a bohemian person. I don't speak German, and I live in a foreign country where all the signs are in German. I did that deliberately. I'm like a ghost. Look at how much media and advertising you're subjected to, this mindless chatter of advertising. I just block it out so effortlessly because it's all a foreign language to me. It's really a good thing for my head, living in Berlin.

  Anton Newcombe

  Country, Block, Media

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Because of the control of the media by corporate wealth, the discovery of truth depends on an alternative media, such as small radio stations, networks, programs. Also, alternative newspapers, which exist all over the country. Also, cable TV programs, which are not dependent on commercial advertising. Also, the internet, which can reach millions of people by-passing the conventional media.

  Howard Zinn

  Country, Discovery, Media

  "Zinn Speaks". Interview with Wajahat Ali, www.counterpunch.org. April 19, 2008.

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