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“The abstract, especially in those rough sketches, is very important to me, perhaps because of my advertising background, where layout is so important. Sometimes those first few lines cut the paper into such satisfying shapes that I don't want to go on, but I always do, adding nostrils and nipples and bootstraps until I have filled the paper up as usual.”

Want Firsts Important Sometimes Lines Cutting Goes On Shapes Paper Filled Backgrounds Advertising Abstract Rough Satisfying Usual Nipples Layout Bootstraps

Author:Tom of Finland

“There was a period of time in America where the advertising world actually went to the housewives of America and had them write jingles that would appeal to them. It was actually brilliant marketing.”

World Writing America Periods Marketing Brilliant Advertising Appeals Housewife Jingles

Author:Julianne Moore

“I believe that life is hard. That we all are going to walk through things that are hard and challenging, and yet advertising wants us to believe that it's all easy.”

Want Believe Hard Life Is I Believe Easy Challenges Walks Advertising Want U Life Is Hard Things That Are Hard

Author:Jamie Lee Curtis

“If you look at the history of advertising, most of them were Jews, so it was only a matter of time before 'Mad Men' explored that area of advertising.”

Ifs Men Looks Matter Areas Mad Jew Advertising Mad Men Matter Of Time

Author:Ben Feldman

“In other words, if you - the cost of promoting movies, the advertising and promotion of a movie, the budget is almost as large as the cost of the movie.”

Ifs Cost Advertising Budgets Promoting Promotion

Author:Richard Attenborough

“I'm not in the advertising business, but I think it would be very nice if people went to see the film Hamlet, because it was made with love and integrity”

People Ifs Thinking Made Would Be Film Nice Integrity Advertising Very Nice Advertising Agencies Advertising Business Made With Love

Author:Julie Christie

“Advertising is the tax you pay for being unremarkable.”

Pay Taxes Advertising

Author:Robert Stephens

“Advertising is a tax for having an unremarkable product”

Products Taxes Marketing Advertising

Author:Robert Stephens

“Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.”

Kind Ordinary Court Advertising Expensive Hints

Author:Mason Cooley

“Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.”

Has Beens Development Demand Mass Advertising

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“Advertising is the life of trade.”

Business Trade Advertising

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.”

World Has Beens Spiritual Sides Business Responsibility Greater Mankind Trade Advertising Redemption Ministers Great Power Regeneration

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated.”

Air Scales Advertising Shopping Surprising Spontaneity Predictable Conditioning Air Conditioning Escalators

Author:Rem Koolhaas

“The program is only the excuse to get you to watch the advertising. Without the ads there would be no programs. Advertising is the true content of television and if it does not remain so, then advertisers will cease to support the medium, and television will cease to exist as the popular entertainment it presently is.”

Ifs Doe Would Be Watches Support Television Program Entertainment Excuse Cease Mediums Advertising Ads Advertisers Popular Entertainment

Author:Jerry Mander

“The power of publicity is more important than advertising.”

Important Advertising Publicity

Author:Barbara Corcoran

“The most effective way to build a brand is not by spending millions in advertising, but by finding a clever way to keep your name in the press.”

Way Names Millions Findings Presses Spending Clever Advertising Brands Branding

Author:Barbara Corcoran

“Truth isn't beauty. It isn't even always true. Truth is nothing more than consistency of message. I learned that from advertising.”

Truth Is Messages Advertising Consistency

Author:Josh Kilmer-Purcell

“Trends in circulation and advertising - the rise of the Internet, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and unresponsive; the advent of Craigslist, which is wiping out classified advertising-have created a palpable sense of doom.”

Looks Made Internet Newspapers Advertising Trends Doom Circulation Advent Wiping Out Unresponsive Craigslist

Author:Eric Alterman

“I photograph only something that has to do with me, and I never did anything that I did not want to do. I do not do editorial and I never do advertising. No, my freedom is something I do not give away easily.”

Want Giving Photography Photographer Photograph Advertising Editorials

Author:Josef Koudelka

“You can buy attention (advertising). You can beg for attention from the media (PR). You can bug people one at a time to get attention (sales). Or you can earn attention by creating something interesting and valuable and then publishing it online for free.”

People Interesting Business Attention Media Creating Valuable Social Media Advertising Online Publishing Bugs Social Media Marketing Creating Something Something Interesting Digital Media

Author:David Meerman Scott

“Capitalism brainwashes us through advertising and the skewing of priorities .... We need economies that promote human values, seek to limit suffering, and are committed to democratic principles, rather than ones dependent on global trade and a blind commitment to neo-liberal economic policies.”

“I decided to go to school for advertising and graphic design. That was what I was gonna do but acting is that thing, its like a splinter in your mind and you cant get rid of it. So I decided to move to L.A. a few years ago and it just snowballed into this thing called The Hunger Games.”

Years Mind School Moving Games Acting Design Years Ago Decided Hunger Advertising Cant Graphic Graphic Design Splinters Graphic Designer

Author:Dayo Okeniyi

“The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.”

Mind Humans Age Used Force Brain Bases Remains Bars Advertising Copies Freedom Of Speech Persuasion Washing Bending Pulp Primacy Human Psyche

Author:Nadine Gordimer

“The future success of online social networking sites as an advertising medium depends on its acceptance as an advertising vehicle that can deliver a message to a micro-target in a manner that will be well received and that increases the likelihood of interaction.”

“With the strong global appeal of the Playboy brand and the differentiated content offered, we have built a men's destination site with multiple revenue streams, including e-commerce, advertising, subscription and pay-per-view, ... In addition, our recent acquisition of the Spice brand gives us an opportunity to create a separate site, cross-promoted with the Spice TV network.”

“Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed.”

Thinking Clean Marketing Advertising Pads Tampons

Book:The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects

Source: The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects

“I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.”

People Ifs Writing Years Has Beens Stills Film Used Song Successful Minutes Honest Car Versions Advertising Could Have Been

Author:Gary Numan

“I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.”

Ifs Has Beens Fashion Advertising

Author:Karl Lagerfeld

“The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time.”

Men He Man Advertising Clock Saving Money Copywriting

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“If you make a product good enough... the public will make a path to your door, says the philosopher. But if you want the public in sufficient numbers, you would better construct a highway. Advertising is that highway.”

Ifs Want Enough Numbers Path Doors Products Philosopher Advertising Sufficient Good Enough Constructs Highways

Author:William Randolph Hearst

“It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country”

Way Mind Humans Country Flow Constant Obvious Advertising One Way Conquer Human Mind Trivial Things

Author:Raymond Chandler

“We have always said that advertising is just the icing on the cake. It is not the cake.”

Said Advertising Cake Advertising Agencies Meg Icing Icing On The Cake

Author:Meg Whitman

“In this country there is a universal third person, the man we all want to be. Advertising has discovered this man. It uses him to express the possibilities open to the consumer. To consume in America is not to buy; it is to dream. Advertising is the suggestion that the dream of entering the third person singular might possibly be fulfilled.”

Men Want Persons Country Use Dream Might America Possibility He Man Thirds Universal Advertising Consumers Fulfilled Suggestions Entering Third Person

Book:Americana

Source: Americana

“Morale is faith in the man at the top.”

Men He Man Advertising Morale

Author:Albert Sidney Johnston

“The arrangement was simply FreedomWorks paid Glenn Beck money and Glenn Beck said nice things about FreedomWorks on the air. I saw that a million dollars went to Beck this past year, that was the annual expenditure. I put it down now as basically as paid advertising for FreedomWorks by Beck.”

Years Said Past Millions Saws Nice Air Paid Dollars Advertising Arrangements Million Dollars Nice Things Annuals Expenditures

Author:Dick Armey

“I detest my past, and anyone else's. I detest resignation, patience, professional heroism and obligatory beautiful feelings. I also detest the decorative arts, folklore, advertising, voices making announcements, aerodynamism, boy scouts, the smell of moth balls, events of the moment, and drunken people.”

People Art Moments Feelings Past Beautiful Voice Boys Events Balls Smell Advertising Heroism Resignation My Past Folklore Moths Detest Announcements Boy Scout

Author:Rene Magritte

“The businessman only wants two things said about his company-what he pays his public relations people to say and what he pays his advertising people to say. He doesn't like anybody ever to look above, beyond or over that.”

People Want Looks Said Two Pay Company Relation Advertising Two Things Businessman Public Relations

Author:Don Hewitt

“Every really good creative person in advertising has always had two noticeable characteristics. First, there was no subject he could not easily get interested in...Second, he was an extensive browser in all sorts of fields of information. For it is with the advertising man as with the cow: no browsing, no milk.”

Men Firsts Persons Two Creative Subjects Information Fields Advertising Characteristics Milk Cows Be Creative Creative Person Browsers Browsing

Author:James Webb Young

“Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing.”

“The marriage of reason and nightmare which has dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across the communications landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy. Thermonuclear weapons systems and soft drink commercials coexist in an overlit realm ruled by advertising and pseudoevents, science and pornography. Over our lives preside the great twin leitmotifs of the 20th century-sex and paranoia.”

“If you can afford to advertise, you don't need to.”

Ifs Needs Literature Advertising

Author:Norman Ralph Augustine

“Advertising is judged not by what it says, but by what the consumer thinks it says.”

Thinking Advertising Consumers Judged

Author:Kenneth Roman

“The biggest mistake young designers make is that they try to make their advertising look like advertising”

Trying Looks Young Mistake Advertising Designer Biggest Mistake

Author:Jeff Goodby

“The ministry of mercy, then, is the best advertising a church can have. It convinces a community that this church provides people with actions for their problems, not only talk. It shows the community that this church is compassionate.”

People Shows Problem Action Community Church Mercy Advertising Convince Compassionate Ministry

Book:Ministries of Mercy: Learning To Care Like Jesus

Source: Ministries of Mercy: Learning To Care Like Jesus

“The greatest act of love was to make a tape for someone. It was the only way we could share music and it was also a way of advertising yourself. Selection, order, the lettering you used for the track list, how much technical detail you went into, whether or not you added artwork or offered only artwork and no track list at all, these choices were as codified as a Victorian bouquet.”

Way Used Order Choices Share Track Details Lists Advertising Tape Selection Artwork Victorian Acts Of Love Bouquets

Book:The Importance of Music to Girls

Source: The Importance of Music to Girls

“The one conclusion I have reached is that whiskey is a great leveler. You might be a hotshot advertising executive or a lowly foundry worker, but if you cannot hold your drink, you are just a drunkard.”

Ifs Might Drink Workers Alcohol Conclusion Advertising Executives Whiskey Drunkards

Book:Q & A: A Novel

Source: Q & A: A Novel

“Commercial interests with their advertising industry do not want people to develop contentment and less greed. Military interests in economic, political, ethnic or nationalist guises, do not want people to develop more tolerance, nonviolence and compassion. And ruling groups in general, in whatever sort of hierarchy do not want the ruled to become too insightful, too independent, too creative on their own, as the danger is that they will become insubordinate, rebellious, and unproductive in their alloted tasks.”

“Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.”

Life Imagination Advertising Resurrection

Author:Ingrid Bengis

“I warn you against believing that advertising is a science.”

Believe Design Advertising You Again

Author:William Bernbach

“Our job is to bring the dead facts to life.”

Facts Jobs Design Advertising Adverts Great Advertising

Author:William Bernbach

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