Andrew Hacker Quotes
Every time a message seems to grab us, and we think, 'I just might try it,' we are at the nexus of choice and persuasion that is advertising.
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People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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There's nothing fun about 30 people standing around watching you, like, pretend to pleasure someone. Nothing enjoyable about it, believe me.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.
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I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.
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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.
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Netflix is something I watch.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.
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I very, very rarely get the opportunity to go shopping and actually feel the clothes and try things on. I love shopping, but I do it mostly through Net-a-Porter.
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I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.
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There seems little doubt in my mind that depression, in particular at the severe end of the experience of this condition, is as real a disorder as diabetes is at the severe end of blood glucose levels.
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I think the fact that we, as writers, don't engage with resource-level questions is a symptom of our society where we just don't know where our stuff comes from.
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I don't want to be on anyone's board. I just want to have good investments.
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Governments that try to shoot for a surplus hardly ever reach it.
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Nearly all the great improvements, discoveries, inventions, and achievements which have elevated and blessed humanity have been the triumphs of enthusiasm.
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Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.
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You have no choice but to operate in a world shaped by globalization and the information revolution. There are two options: adapt or die.
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This is a society in which you are who you think you are. Nobody gives you your identity here, you have to reinvent yourself every day." He is right, I suspect, but I can't figure out how this is done. You just say what you are and everyone believes you? That seems like a confidence trick to me, and not one I think I can pull off. Still, somehow, invent myself I must. But how do I choose from identity options available all around me? I feel, once again, as I did when facing those ten brands of toothpaste - faint from excess, paralysed by choice.
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There is nothing wrong with a woman encouraging a man's advances, as long as they are in cash.
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Lenelle Moïse's poems render the abstract - policy, disaster, history, diaspora - specific. Her words make the political not just personal, but corporeal: the beautiful system of the human body as canvas and subject, perfect in all its attendant complications and complexity, and still ruled, undeniably, by a warm, beating heart.
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Every time a message seems to grab us, and we think, 'I just might try it,' we are at the nexus of choice and persuasion that is advertising.
