Gimmicks Quotes

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  God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?

  Whitney Houston

  God, Voice, Singing

  "Whitney Houston: Return of the troubled diva" by Oliver Marre, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2009.

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• Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture.

  Method Man

  Rap, Hip Hop, Culture

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• No tricks, gimmicks, special pills, special potions, special equipment. All it takes is desire and will.

  Richard Simmons

  Special, Desire, Pills

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• I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last.

  Billy Eckstine

  Music, Lasts, Jazz

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• Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.

  Cornel West

  Clever, Yield, Self

  Twitter post from Jan 24, 2013

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• You've seen one gimmick, you've seen them all.

  Terrell Suggs

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• Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Unique, Media, Expression

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• I love visual gags and gimmicks; I love them.

  Sia Furler

  Visuals, Gags

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

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• No matter how skillful you are, you can't invent a product advantage that doesn't exist. And if you do, and it's just a gimmick, it's going to fall apart anyway.

  William Bernbach

  Fall, Matter, Advantage

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• Rule No. 1 is you can't be fake. If you're fake, you become a gimmick and you're selling a gimmick; a little gimmick is cool, this is entertainment. But when you base your stuff on mostly real stuff, you never run out of it because every day is a different adventure.

  Nas

  Running, Real, Adventure

  "Q&A: With 4 nods, rapper Nas aims for Grammy gold". Interview with Mesfin Fekadu, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. January 9, 2013.

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• When you're in business, if you have some sort of gimmick it's a huge advantage.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Advantage, Huge, Ifs

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• Being up on something is a way of dismissing it. To espouse any point of view is a danger - it might leave us stuck with last year's cause. Prized for their novelty alone, ideas, gimmicks, trends become equivalent, interchangeable.

  Edmund White

  Views, Years, Ideas

  Edmund White (2014). “States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America”, p.260, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• Good writing has an aliveness that keeps the reader reading from one paragraph to the next, and it's not a question of gimmicks to "personalize" the author.

  William Zinsser

  Reading, Writing, Next

  William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• Awards are only a publicity gimmick.

  Tony Randall

  Awards, Publicity

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• I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Halloween, Voice, Crosby

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• I believe in keeping running simple and, in regard to shoes, that would mean no gimmicks, unnecessary cushioning, etc

  Bill Rodgers

  Running, Believe, Mean

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• I think a song that's got something to say. I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last. But I like a song that tells a story and has some meat to it, you know, that means something.

  Billy Eckstine

  Song, Mean, Thinking

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• Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.

  Alan Ladd

  Acting, Knows, I Can

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• I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss.

  Tom Verlaine

  Kissing, Media, Band

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• All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background.

  Bobby Vinton

  Song, Voice, Surfing

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• Design must be functional and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics, without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

  Ferdinand Porsche

  Design, Aesthetics, Visuals

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• Make your copy straightforward to read, understand and use. Use easy words; those that are used for everyday speech. Use phrases that are not too imprecise and very understandable. Do not be too stuffy; remove pompous words and substitute them with plain words. Minimize complicated gimmicks and constructions. If you can't give the data directly and briefly, you must consider writing the copy again.

  Jay Abraham

  Writing, Data, Giving

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• But we don’t need more gimmicks and gadgets; all we need do is reimagine the way we travel. If we truly want to know the secret of soulful travel, we need to believe that there is something sacred waiting to be discovered in virtually every journey.

  Phil Cousineau

  Believe, Journey, Waiting

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• I don't really have a gimmick or a 'thing.' I'm one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.

  Drake

  Life, Artist, Rapper

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• Everyone has to suffer the gimmicks and other stunts and machinations when they're starting out - only at the time, it doesn't feel like suffering; it's fun and different then. But a little fame goes a long way, and then one tries to cast off part of the heavy burden - a burden one can never totally escape.

  George Harrison

  Fun, Long, Suffering

  Source: friarparksoulclub.tumblr.com

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