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• Less money spent on billboards that just make us feel good about ourselves and more on soup kitchens and organized visits to the sick and dying.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Soup Kitchens, Generosity, Sick

  Interview with Jennifer Bardi, thehumanist.com. April 29, 2010.

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• Oh my God..." Xhex's heart stopped as she looked at him in the mirror. Across his upper back, in a glorious spread of black ink...in a declaration that didn't whisper but shouted...in a billboard-size front with flourishes... Her name in the Old Language.

  J.R. Ward

  Heart, Mirrors, Names

  J.R. Ward (2010). “Lover Mine: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.412, Penguin

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• If you've seen a crab's mouth, all foamy and gross with whiskers and snapping bits, you can imagine this one didn't look any better blown up to billboard size.

  Rick Riordan

  Looks, Mouths, Size

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian”, p.16, Penguin UK

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• Once he'd even reprogrammed the electronic billboards in Time Square to read: ALL DA LADIES LUV LEO... accidentally, of course.

  Rick Riordan

  Squares, Times Square, Courses

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• Many billboards and magazine ads have resorted to showing isolated body parts rather than full-body portraits of models using or wearing products. This style of photography, known in the industry as abstract representation, allows the viewer to see himself in the advertisement, rather than the model.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Photography, Style, Portraits

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• If Los Angeles is a woman reclining billboard model with collagen-puffed lips and silicone-inflated breasts, a woman in a magenta convertible with heart-shaped sunglasses and cotton candy hair; if Los Angeles is this woman, then the San Fernando Valley is her teenybopper sister. The teenybopper sister snaps bug stretchy pink bubbles over her tongue and checks her lipgloss in the rearview mirror, . . . Teeny plays the radio too loud and bites her nails, wondering if the glitter polish will poison her.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Heart, Mirrors, Hair

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• Our humanist community should be thinking more about demonstrating the fundamental truth that goodness requires neither God nor the belief in God by organizing together as a community to do good. Less money spent on billboards that just make us feel good about ourselves and more on soup kitchens and organized visits to the sick and dying.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Thinking, Compassion, Soup Kitchens

  Interview with Jennifer Bardi, thehumanist.com. April 29, 2010.

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• I mean it's funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it, but it's not competitive like an election, it's the Olympics, it's not a Formula 1 race. The Billboard charts are just to show you what people like.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Mean, Race, People

  Interview with David Curcurito, www.esquire.com. April 17, 2012.

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• Bonnaroo has kind of become the granddaddy of all American festivals. The thing I love about it most is that it wasn't born out of picking the top ten bands off the Billboard chart and creating a festival around it.

  Michael Franti

  Creating, Band, Things I Love

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• Just being able to make exactly what I want with my brother and a lot of my best friend and to have a place like HBO that not only lets you do that, but supports you and puts up billboards in support of it, and really puts it out there for you. That's not something I get a lot in the independent film world where everybody's pinching pennies and nervous about whether it's going to make money or not.

  Mark Duplass

  Brother, Independent, Hbo

  Source: collider.com

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• It was disturbing to me that an idea or a song could become something so different from what you originally intended. It's like if a friend took a stupid picture of you at a party on their phone, and the next thing you knew, it was on every billboard.

  Beck

  Song, Stupid, Party

  "Beck: 15 Years". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 17, 2011.

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• North Korea invites parody. We laugh at the excesses of the propaganda and the gullibility of the people. But consider that their indoctrination began in infancy, during the fourteen-hour days spent in factory day-care centers; that for the subsequent fifty years, every song, film, newspaper article, and billboard was designed to deify Kim Il-sung; that the country was hermetically sealed to keep out anything that might cast doubt on Kim Il-sung's divinity. Who could possibly resist?

  Barbara Demick

  Country, Song, Korea

  Barbara Demick (2010). “Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea”, p.42, Granta

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• I was in Shanghai recently, where Twitter is blocked, and yet there were ads and billboards across town with hashtags on them.

  Dick Costolo

  Hashtags, Towns, Shanghai

  "Twitter CEO Hopes To Attract Users By Clearing The Clutter". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block and Robert Siegel, nhpr.org. May 2, 2014.

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• You are who God says you are. Spiritually alive. Heavenly positioned. Connected to the Father. A billboard of mercy. An honored child.

  Max Lucado

  Children, Father, Alive

  Max Lucado (2012). “Come Thirsty: No Heart Too Dry for His Touch”, p.33, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The spirit of Route 66 is in the details: every scratch on a fender, every curl of paint on a weathered billboard, every blade of grass growing up through a cracked street.

  John Lasseter

  Growing Up, Curls, Details

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• The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Emotional, Feelings, Faces

  Malcolm Gladwell (2007). “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking”, p.111, Hachette UK

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• An annoyed and joyless Christian is the devil's greatest billboard.

  Mark Hart

  Christian, Annoyed, Devil

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• I am just coming out of five years of night, and this orgy of violent lights gives me for the first time the impression of a new continent. An enormous, 50-foot high Camel billboard : a GI with his mouth wide open blows enormous puffs of real smoke. So much bad taste hardly seems imaginable.

  Albert Camus

  New York, Real, Blow

  Albert Camus (1987). “American journals”

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• You feel a sense of elation seeing yourself on a billboard.

  Paloma Faith

  Elation, Feels, Seeing Yourself

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• In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted thirst without quenching it.

  John Updike

  Religion, Church, Weekdays

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• Try Jesus, you won't regret it, a billboard read.

  Anne Tyler

  Jesus, Regret, Trying

  Anne Tyler, Monica McInerney (2012). “The Beach Book Bundle: 3 Novels for Summer Reading: Breathing Lessons, The Alphabet Sisters, Firefly Summer”, p.33, Ballantine Books

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• There's a billboard in a little farm town in the Midwest that says: IF YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT FARMERS, DON'T TALK WITH YOUR MOUTH FULL.

  Lee Iacocca

  Complaining, Midwest, Mouths

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• It feels great seeing posters everywhere, and bus stops promoting 'Black Nativity,' and billboards in Los Angeles. It's overwhelming. I can't wait for everybody to see what I got.

  Jacob Latimore

  Bus Stops, Waiting, Black

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• I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Long, People, Car

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• After 'Sports' came out in the fall of 1983, everything changed for me. Four of the album's singles became top-10 hits, and by the end of June in 1984, the album was No. 1 on the Billboard chart. It was quite a ride, and for the first time I had enough money to live the way I wanted.

  Huey Lewis

  Sports, Fall, June

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