John Wanamaker Quotes
I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half.
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Don't assume that the answers are out there in the form of somebody else already doing something. Sometimes they are. But you have to think beyond that.
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I have worked with some great directors.
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The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.
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After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.
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I'm not into the attention thing so much.
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It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.
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A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.
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The star of 'Narcos' and the director and creator of 'Narcos' are both Brazilian superstars. So Brazil has received 'Narcos' particularly well as it's been well-received around the world.
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No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
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As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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The 'Outlander' fans are super-passionate.
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If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket - they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game.
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History is fickle. We know that. The good and bad come around and go around, and go around again. There are recessions and depressions and economic boom and bust.
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Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.
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The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
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Being teased and losing my self value eventually ended up inspiring me to be a better version of myself.
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Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is sexy too.
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Federalists, Whigs, Democratic-Republicans; parties are born, parties die, and parties realign themselves to adapt to shifting demographics and attitudes.
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There is a false moral imperative that seems to be all-around us that treatment of depression, the medications and so on, are an artifice, and that it's not natural. And I think that's very misguided. It would be natural for people's teeth to fall out, but there is nobody militating against toothpaste, at least not in my circles.
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Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.
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I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, but I can never find out which half.
