Products Quotes - Page 13

• More and more products are coming out in fiercely protective packaging designed to prevent consumers from consuming them. These days you have to open almost every consumer item by gnawing on the packaging.

  Dave Barry

  Packaging, Coming Out, These Days

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.43, Ballantine Books

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• Photography turns people into things and their image into a mass consumer product.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Photography, People, Mass

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• The Democrats are very bad at selling their own product. The Republicans are geniuses at it. And I've said it before, a bad product well apologized for is superior in this country to a good product.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Democracy, Genius

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. September 14, 2010.

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• You could place one product in a first-run telecast, a second product what that program is rerun, and a third product when the show goes into syndication, and another product when it goes on cable.

  David Brenner

  Running, Goes On, Reruns

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• Anyone believing the TPP is good for Americans take note: The foreign subsidiaries of U.S.-based corporations could just as easily challenge any U.S. government regulation they claim unfairly diminishes their profits - say, a regulation protecting American consumers from unsafe products or unhealthy foods, investors from fraudulent securities or predatory lending, workers from unsafe working conditions, taxpayers from another bailout of Wall Street, or the environment from toxic emissions.

  Robert Reich

  Wall, Believe, Government

  "Why the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Is a Pending Disaster" by Robert Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 6, 2015.

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• Frequently, crashes are followed with a message like 'ID 02'. 'ID' is an abbreviation for idiosyncrasy and the number that follows indicates how many more months of testing the product should have had.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Should Have, Numbers, Abbreviations

  Guy Kawasaki (1990). “The Macintosh Way”, HarperCollins

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• There are only so many ways to get people to go see stand-up, that it really is about the product; it's not so much about the theme of the show.

  Greg Behrendt

  People, Way, Theme

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• Actors, writers, directors - that triumvirate of creativity - we have to rely and trust each other to be able to get to the final product.

  Bryan Cranston

  Creativity, Actors, Able

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• From a product standpoint, we want every touch point to feel magical. It inspires trust.

  Jack Dorsey

  Inspire, Want, Feels

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• You are a product of what you watch as a kid largely.

  James Bobin

  Kids, Watches

  Source: collider.com

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• There are lots of ways to design a workflow - for instance, some land surveyors book their notes by hand, and some use electronic data collectors. Every firm has its own unique way of arriving at the end product. However, from a licensed land surveyor, the product should always be of the same high quality.

  Mark Mason

  Book, Unique, Hands

  "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.

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• In the olden days, of course, cigarette companies would pay to have their product advertised in movies and to have actors smoke cigarettes.[Ronald Reagan used to do it.]

  Joe Eszterhas

  Actors, Pay, Cigarette

  Transcript to Oct. 9 at Cleveland State University, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• Now the cigarette companies claim that they don't do that [ pay to have their product advertised in movies ] anymore, although it certainly makes you wonder a bit when an independent production like "In The Bedroom", you know, seems to focus constantly on Marlboros and almost it turns into a Marlboro ad, whether there was any money exchanged.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Independent, Focus, Pay

  Interview with Dominic Bellone, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• I think that, on the one hand, our audience, our culture is so savvy now to an assumption that teaser effects are not fully representative of the final product. But in the same breath, I would say there's no shot in the teaser that I'm not really happy with.

  Shawn Anthony Levy

  Thinking, Hands, Finals

  Source: collider.com

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• We wanted to do it right. There is an expectation and WWE has a reputation to deliver the best show we possibly can when we perform in a new part of the world. We wanted to deliver Abu Dhabi with the best product we could. Also it's very difficult to make the travel work as we are constantly touring throughout the year.

  John Cena

  Years, Wwe, Expectations

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• The majority of photographers still seek artistic effects, imitating other mediums of graphic expression. The result is a hybrid product that does not succeed in giving their work the most valuable characteristic it should have, - photographic quality.

  Tina Modotti

  Expression, Should Have, Giving

  Frida Kahlo, Tina Modotti, Whitechapel Art Gallery (1982). “Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti”

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• Market growth alone doesn't give you enough tailwind. You have to create your own. The way to do that is by designing products for consumers that wow them.

  Indra Nooyi

  Giving, Design, Growth

  "Dynamic Duos: PepsiCo’s Indra Nooyi And Mauro Porcini On Design-Led Innovation". www.fastcodesign.com. September 23, 2013.

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• Even if, as is generally the case, everything that the ad says about the product is scrupulously honest, or at any rate scrupulously avoids outright dishonesty, the implication of the direct address of most commercials - that the announcer speaks with the viewer's welfare at heart - is fraudulent.

  Michael Schudson

  Heart, Addresses, Honest

  Michael Schudson (2013). “Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society”, p.33, Routledge

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• The effectiveness of advertising depends on the amount and kind of product information available to consumers... advertising will be more successful the more impoverished the consumer's information environment.

  Michael Schudson

  Successful, Effectiveness, Information

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• From an egotistical point of view, I'm always interested in roles that push me as a person. I'm interested in humans as animals and as products of society.

  Tom Cullen

  Animal, Views, Roles

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

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• [I enjoy] working with yeast, tempering chocolate and figuring out why an end product is successful or not.

  Sean Sasser

  Successful, Chocolate, Yeast

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• Merchandisers, by embedding subliminal trigger devices in media, are able to evoke a strong emotional relationship between, say, a product perceived in an advertisement weeks before and the strongest of all emotional stimuli - love (sex) and death.

  Wilson Bryan Key

  Strong, Sex, Emotional

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• Photography is, and has been since its conception, a fabulously broad church. Contemporary practice demonstrates that the medium can be a prompt, a process, a vehicle, a collective pursuit, and not just the physical end product of solitary artists' endeavors.

  Charlotte Cotton

  Photography, Artist, Practice

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• Photography, as an invention, was both art and science. The view it gave us of the world was in some measure acceptable because it was a product of our vision of the world; and it did so as part of the same process which seemed to impart 'truth': science.

  Joseph Kosuth

  Photography, Art, Views

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• Although I get a lot of ideas from things that have happened in my life, I see the final product as a place where my imagination meets my experience. What I love about photography is that nothing is really as it seems.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Photography, Ideas, Imagination

  Interview with Scott Indrisek, www.believermag.com. October 2006.

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