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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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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It's true that as Mr. Chan makes more American movies - and gets older - we will never again see the kind of fistfight choreography that the star would devote four months to shoot.
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In the ’50s and ’60s there was segregation here in the Bay Area and all over the country. There was a curfew for young blacks my age in the Fillmore district where I lived. It was a disturbing thing. There were civil rights movements here in San Francisco. They would show on the national news the dogs being sicced on the marchers, being sprayed with the hoses, being beaten with the batons.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are as high as they are now in part because we've had no comprehensive national energy policy for the past few decades.
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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.
