John C. Crosby Quotes

The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague.

John C. Crosby

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• Drink lots of water and stay hydrated.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Water
  • Drink
  • Stay

• Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • You
  • Me
  • Smile

• Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Women
  • Love
  • Relationship

• I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Important
  • Why
  • Better

• I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song, it's verse-chorus-verse.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Song
  • Inspiration

• The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.

  

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
  • World
  • Best
  • System

• Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Good
  • Better
  • Competition

• We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Country
  • Small
  • Build

• The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Time
  • Long
  • Remember

• I like to play 'Battleship,' and I also like 'Wordle' on iPhone. These are good things to play while you're on set. 'Words with Friends' is also great.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Good
  • Great
  • Friends

• What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Never
  • Plant
  • Weed

• I don't have contempt for Tiger Woods.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Tiger
  • Woods
  • Tiger Woods

• The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Time
  • Change
  • Yourself

• I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Know
  • Kind
  • Personality

• My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids.

  

  Gary Carter
  • Kids
  • Practice
  • Teach

• When we think about the past, we think, 'It must have been so boring.' It's actually not.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Think
  • Past
  • Boring

• I believe... we were told that the 'Bluetooth AirPods', whatever they are, can be used on anything that supports Bluetooth audio.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Audio

• I'm always really curious about, you know, 'How do you deal with success psychologically?' and all this stuff.

  

  Flume
  • Success
  • Know
  • Curious

• Sometimes when you do voices next to each other, especially when you're first starting out, they tend to bleed into each other. Working on a show like 'Futurama,' we do multiple characters there, but we've been doing it for a while, so the voices are really well-defined in our heads.

  

  Phil LaMarr

• I quite like that people tend not to know my name. I remember being at the Cannes film festival for 'All or Nothing.' I looked very different in the film - I had a little greasy bob and no makeup. I went to a dinner after the screening, and everyone completely ignored me. I got a real buzz out of that.

  

  Lesley Manville
  • People
  • Different
  • Real

• The act of navigation is not favourable to foreign commerce, or to the growth of that opulence which can arise from it. ... As defence, however, is of much more importance than opulence, the act of navigation is, perhaps, the wisest of all the commercial regulations of England.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Growth

• We will be a country of generosity and warmth. But we will also be a country of law and order.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Country
  • Law
  • Generosity

• The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague.

  

  John C. Crosby
  • Law
  • Promise