“The main purpose of advertising is to undermine markets. If you go to graduate school and you take a course in economics, you learn that markets are systems in which informed consumers make rational choices. That's what's so wonderful about it. But that's the last thing that the state corporate system wants. It is spending huge sums to prevent that.” IfsWantStatesSchoolLastsPurposeChoicesCoursesWonderfulHugeEconomicsSpendingRationalAdvertisingConsumersCorporateGraduatesGraduate School Author:Noam Chomsky
“There's something rather wonderful about the fact that Oxford is a very small city that contains most of the cultural and metropolitan facilities you could want, in terms of bookshops, theatre, cinema, conversation. But it's near enough to London to get here in an hour, and it's near enough to huge open spaces without which I would go insane.” WantEnoughFactsTermHoursSpaceCitiesWonderfulHugeConversationLondonTheatreInsaneCinemaFacilityOxfordBookshopsOpen SpacesMetropolitan Author:Mark Haddon
“A huge number of people are going through the process of awakening, some in the early stages, some in later stages, and it's wonderful to see.” PeopleProcessNumbersWonderfulStageHugeAwakeningHuge Numbers Author:Eckhart Tolle
“It was great for that to be my first movie with such a wonderful cast, and such a huge movie. And now I get to do The Fighting Temptations, which is coming out soon-it wasn't much of a character, it was more of a real person, so I got to show more of my acting range.” FirstsPersonsRealCharacterShowsFightingActorsActingWonderfulHugeCastsTemptationRangeMovieComing OutReal Person Author:Beyonce Knowles
“Alongside my "no email" policy, I resolve to make better use of the wonderful Royal Mail, and send letters and postcards to people. There is a huge pleasure in writing a letter, putting it in an envelope and sticking the stamp on it. And huge pleasure in receiving real letters, too.” PeopleWritingRealUsePleasureWonderfulPolicyHugeLettersResolveMailReceivingRoyalEmailStampsEnvelopesPostcards Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“The household I grew up in... was rather like an Ovaltine advert. There was a huge fire, a kettle on the fire, the oven with the bread being baked every day, and there was the radio; it was very magical to hear all these wonderful programmes.” FireWonderfulHugeGrewGrew UpRadioBreadHouseholdProgrammesOvensAdvertsKettles Author:Brian Blessed
“[GEICO] got to thinking that, because they were making a lot of money, they knew everything. And they suffered huge losses. All they had to do was to cut out all the folly and go back to the perfectly wonderful business that was lying there.” ThinkingLyingLossCuttingWonderfulHugeFollyLots Of Money Author:Charlie Munger
“I'm a huge Luc Besson fan. The Fifth Element, I just loved that movie. Luc cast me to play a small part in it, and so I did, because I love all his movies actually - The Big Blue, La Femme Nikita, Léon: The Professional. His movies are so wonderful. It's just fun to be in it and for it to be a sci-fi movie.” PlayBigsFunWonderfulFansHugeElementsBlueCastsSci FiFifthSmall PartsFemmeSci Fi MovieFifth Element Author:Ethan Hawke
“Helping Africans navigate the transition to modernity with a huge, wonderful wildlife resource still intact.” StillsHelpingWonderfulHugeResourcesTransitionModernityWildlifeNavigate Author:Patrick Bergin
“With good planning, Africa can have cities, farms, factories, export processing zones. But if the political will is there, the huge areas - the Serengeti, the Okavango, the Kalahari, Kruger - these wonderful, huge places for wildlife could still be set aside and protected, and be treasures for humanity for many generations to come.” IfsStillsPoliticalHumanityCitiesWonderfulGenerationsHugeAreasPlanningTreasureZoneFarmsFactoriesProtectedWildlifeProcessingPolitical WillGood Planning Author:Patrick Bergin
“There is a huge fan base, they're very knowledgeable and very loyal. I was astonished - before I started working on the series I didn't know anything about Game of Thrones. I hadn't heard of the books. When it started going out, people were coming up to me in the street saying [fake cockney accent] "oh, Game of Thrones, f------ wonderful.” PeopleKnowsBookGamesWonderfulHeardFansStreetsHugeSeriesLoyalGoing OutThronesKnowledgeable Author:Charles Dance