Jerry Della Femina Quotes
I once attended an advertising conference held at the Greenbrier Hotel in 1968. The dean of the original Mad Men, the great David Ogilvy, was the keynote speaker. The subject of his speech was the new creative revolution in advertising.
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My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.
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We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
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We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
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I love my sleep.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
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I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.
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Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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Do people ever ask me to say 'Wow?' Never in interviews, but a few times on the street. I don't do it. I try to get away from them as quickly as possible and explain that I'm not a performing seal.
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When we cover a Chainsmokers song in our live show with ZBB, people are dancing and going crazy.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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In all these years, I've understood one thing: that it's only your work that should do all the talking.
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Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
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The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself.
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We're told all the time to give up everything for love. That's the Western notion of what love is - love conquers all, all you need is love. And there are so many different kinds of outside, conflicting pressures on women.
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If net neutrality goes away, it will fundamentally change everything about the Internet.
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The most important thing is that man should be the measure of all structures, including economic structures, and not that man be made to measure for those structures. The most important thing is not to lose sight of personal relationships - i.e., the relationships between man and his co-workers, between subordinates and their superiors, between man and his work, between this work and its consequences.
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Catch me, as if I have surely been out committing a violation against you, my sin of insisting on existing without you.
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I once attended an advertising conference held at the Greenbrier Hotel in 1968. The dean of the original Mad Men, the great David Ogilvy, was the keynote speaker. The subject of his speech was the new creative revolution in advertising.
