David Ogilvy Quotes
Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they stopped.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
Jack Straw
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
Uma Thurman
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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The virtues of the blockchain is that it would be that it's peer-to-peer settlement - no centralized settlement, no manipulation... And most importantly, there's nothing to capture. It's consensus based. It's stateless.
Patrick M. Byrne
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There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
Rachel Bloom
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With 'Dance Moms' in L.A., we film on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. When we film in Pittsburgh, we film the same days, but we still dance in our studio when we're not filming, so I'm dancing every day except Sunday.
Maddie Ziegler
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The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.
Ralph Merkle
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
Ian Somerhalder
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Early in the morning, it's super tough for me to eat right away, but I still need energy for practice. I try to start out with a protein smoothie, a green juice, or some sort of fruit.
Venus Williams
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For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.
Cai Guo-Qiang
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
Gail Collins
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
Felix Baumgartner
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Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.
Patrick Wang
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
Maggie Gallagher
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
Wayne Dyer
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I'd love to be in a feature film, and I don't just mean in a starring role - it could be a small part. And I would like to act in television, to do comedy and drama.
Barbara Mandrell
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I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you.
Faith Evans
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Um... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.
Rachel Nichols
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When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.
C. L. R. James
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'Haven’t you ever heard of morale-building?' Khouri had asked.'Heard of it,' Volyova said. 'Don’t happen to agree with it. Would you rather be happy and dead, or scared and alive?'
Alastair Reynolds
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Time rolls his ceaseless course.
Walter Scott
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There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.
Ken Follett
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The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.
George Oppen
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Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they stopped.
David Ogilvy