Al Ries Quotes
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Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
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Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.
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If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.
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The problem with some stars is that they lose perspective about correct adult behavior. People laugh at everything they say and do. Nobody says, 'Chill out, man. That's out of line.'
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Ricky Martin is one of my idols in the industry.
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I've always shied away from online data storage. I don't even use my employers' network drives for anything sensitive. I want to control access myself.
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I am not saying one is better than the other. I enjoy both. But Hollywood is far more organised than Bollywood.
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How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, and not merely a random collection of isolated incidents?
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A lot of people glorify and romanticize the idea of being an early bloomer: finding success very early and being a child star. But it can also be quite dangerous.
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Where did he get jelly beans? That's another good question. More than likely it will never be answered to your complete satisfaction. But then, how many questions ever are?
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The cause of war is preparation for war.
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Our Soviet writer must be guided in his world only by the need of the people, useful for the society.
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Men are run ragged by female sexuality all their lives. From the beginning of his life to the end, no man ever fully commands any woman. It's an illusion. Men are pussy-whipped. And they know it. That's what the strip clubs are about; not woman as victim, not woman as slave, but woman as goddess.
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Epops: Come let me see, what shall the name be for our city? ... Euelpides: Hence, from the clouds, and these meteoric regions, some all-swelling name. Pisthetaerus: Would you 'Cloud-cuckoo-land?' (tr. Warter 1830, p. 215)
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Men mark the passion of Christ, and print it on their heart somewhat to follow it. It was the most voluntary passion that ever was suffered, and the most painful. It was most voluntary, and so most meritorious.
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In a slow-growing world that is short on aggregate demand, Germany's trade surplus is a problem.
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I don't mind talking about my dad because he's such a good dude.
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I think what makes people ill a lot of the time is the belief that your thoughts are concrete and that you're responsible for your thoughts. Whereas actually - the way I see it - your thoughts are what the wind blows through your mind.
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The most powerful concept in marketing is owning a word in the prospects mind.
