William Bernbach Quotes
We are so busy measuring public opinion that we forget we can mold it. We are so busy listening to statistics we forget we can create them.
Quotes to Explore
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We're a nation of celebrity and hero worshipers, so much so that we make heroes out of those who aren't, such as John Wayne: a patriotic, red-blooded, two-fisted American who spent the Second World War in the trenches on the movie lots of Hollywood.
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I got no hate in me.
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You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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I read fashion magazines all the time. It's fun, but I don't take it very seriously.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
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I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.
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I don't have the kind of style that I feel like would serve any and everyone.
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There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.
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It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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The best of life is to embark on an adventure with a woman interested in having an adventure with you.
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I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
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I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
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NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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I want to look my fellow Americans directly in the eye and declare to them, 'I am not the anthrax killer.' I know nothing about the anthrax attacks. I had absolutely nothing to do with this terrible crime.
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Any decision that's made about my career is ultimately my decision, and it's helped me not to plan too much. I've never been the guy thinking, 'I want to do a play this year, I want to do this kind of movie or this kind of character.' I don't have that sort of control.
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In my opinion, Al Moritz may be the best poet of his generation in Canada.
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There were no weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein was not involved in the September 11th attack.
Charles B. Rangel -
You know we're going to control the insurance companies.
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We are so busy measuring public opinion that we forget we can mold it. We are so busy listening to statistics we forget we can create them.
