Publicity Quotes

• What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Leadership, Humility, Giving

  Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “Speaking of Abraham Lincoln”

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• Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

  Lily Tomlin

  Country, Honesty, Work

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• Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any.

  Jane Russell

  Terrible, Ifs

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

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• Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Light, Disease, Being The Best

  Other People's Money ch. 5 (1914) See RalphWaldo Emerson 42

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• Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make.

  William Bernbach

  Running, Business, Numbers

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• Publicity is absolutely critical. A good PR story is infinitely more effective than a front page ad.

  Richard Branson

  Communication, Stories, Pages

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• There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.

  Brendan Behan

  Advertising Business, Public Relations, Obituary

  In Dominic Behan My Brother Brendan (1965) p. 158

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• Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Country, Public Opinion, Action

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• Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Justice, Soul, Spurs

  establishment in France. Collected in John Bowring (ed) Works (1838-43), vol.4.

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• I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Believe, Simple

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.227, Princeton University Press

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• The power of publicity is more important than advertising.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Important, Advertising

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• Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Nature, Being The Best, Sunlight

  Other People's Money ch. 5 (1914) See RalphWaldo Emerson 42

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• You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Life, Success, Money

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

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• Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Military, Oxygen, Hymns

  Speech to American Bar Association in London, 15 July 1985, in The Times 16 July 1985

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• Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Moral, Public Speaking, Force

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• With publicity comes humiliation.

  Tama Janowitz

  Humiliation

  1992 In the International Herald Tribune, 8 Sep.

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• I do need publicity but not for what I do for good. I need publicity for my book. I need publicity for my fights. I need publicity for my movie but not for helping people. Then it is no longer sincere.

  Muhammad Ali

  Book, Fighting, People

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• Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.

  John Berger

  Dream, Culture, Capitalism

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• The price of Justice is eternal publicity.

  Arnold Bennett

  Justice, Eternity, Eternal

  Things that have Interested Me (2nd series, 1923) "Secret Trials"

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• The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

  Henry Adams

  Men, Self, Aggravation

  'The Education of Henry Adams' (1907) ch. 10

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• The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.

  Thomas Paine

  Art, Years, Black

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• Publicity is the only thing some people fear. An aroused public opinion has been the cause of most reforms. Telling the truth is perhaps the pacifist's only weapon. Over and over again, even the suggestion that one may publish the facts has changed a scornful, bullying opponent into an almost subservient helper. But how dangerous it is!

  Muriel Lester

  Bullying, People, Suggestions

  Muriel Lester (1937). “It Occurred to Me”

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• Squirrels are just rats with good publicity

  Garrison Wynn

  Squirrels, Rats

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• There is such a thing as bad publicity.

  Joyce Brothers

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• There's no such thing as bad publicity.

  P. T. Barnum

  Advertising Business, Public Relations, Obituary

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