William Bernbach Quotes
All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgarise that society. We can brutalise it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.
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Being on the road with rock, it's pretty much 90 percent guys.
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The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
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I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
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As far as everyone else's opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn't have left Compton, so I don't get too caught up on what the next person thinks.
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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
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I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
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My normal life is like being on holiday.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.
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Is climbing, as a passion and as a sport, better off now than it was in the past? We can do harder climbs now in faster times - techniques are more refined and equipement more sophisticated - but are we really any better off?
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On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.
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However, Hoover had converted the simple business ritual of reassurance into a major instrument of public policy.
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We've all heard these statistics that teachers at times go into their pockets in the tune of several hundred dollars a year to pay for school supplies and materials. It's not normal.
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All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgarise that society. We can brutalise it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.
