Stephen Rodrick Quotes
Publicists cater to bloggers because they can play them; bloggers cater to publicists because they want their ads.
Quotes to Explore
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Producing films was a distraction for me for which I payed dearly.
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My kids accuse me and my wife of being fascists and overly concerned about tech, and they say that none of their friends have the same rules... That's because we have seen the dangers of technology firsthand. I've seen it in myself, I don't want to see that happen to my kids.
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God doesn't break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.
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The mortician interviewing the corpses.
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All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world.
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I’m very concerned about youth becoming addicted to nicotine through things like e-cigarettes … what we don’t want to see is a whole generation of children become addicted to nicotine from the use of e-cigarettes.
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I mean, for years [my father] would been doing everything imaginable ... from speed to downers to you name it. I used to call that "changing seats on the Titanic," and I used to say that I myself was not only changing seats on the Titanic but dating the crew.
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Maybe the bike is more dangerous, but the passion for the car for me is second to the bike.
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I love dogs. Like, A LOT. They’re my favorite animal. Ever.
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These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.
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Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training.
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When we launched The Deck, I hoped other networks would take inspiration from it and figure out how to increase engagement while minimizing clutter. I even tried to sell my studio's media clients on the notion of fewer, better-priced, better-targeted ads.
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Two people could look at the same flowers and feel differently about them. Why not? I'm not making ads. I couldn't care less.
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When there are tiers of meaning in an ad it intrigues the audience and they look for it again and again.
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Subscriptions is the bulk of our business; ads are nice to have on top of that.
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When I was in college, my school newspaper accepted an ad from a Holocaust revisionist organization. This would have been offensive on most college campuses across the country, but I went to a school with a very large Jewish population, so the ad, as you might expect, stirred absolute outrage.
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Publicists cater to bloggers because they can play them; bloggers cater to publicists because they want their ads.
