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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.

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• It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?

  

  Lakshmi Mittal
  • True
  • Identity
  • Interests

• Beauty means expression and being your most authentic self.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Beauty
  • Self
  • Most

• Politics is the art of the possible.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Art
  • Politics
  • Possible

• Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Help
  • Want
  • Everyone

• I'm totally a geek.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Geek
  • Totally

• Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Up
  • Money
  • Future

• You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Free
  • You
  • Artist

• I like Modest Mouse. I'm our biggest fan. And enemy. I won't waste people's time by putting out a Modest Mouse record just because. That's fair, right?

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • People
  • Time
  • Enemy

• I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come to the conclusion that we're not, but we keep trying.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Trying
  • Change
  • Question

• Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • Nature
  • Things
  • Nothing

• Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • America
  • Health
  • Crazy

• I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't disregard that. It's a privilege.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • Responsibility
  • Model
  • Decisions

• You cannot survive if you do not know the past.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Past
  • Know
  • Survive

• I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Done
  • Age
  • Acting

• It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Work
  • Ideas
  • Humility

• I kind of woke up one morning and was like, 'Oh I see what's happening, I get everything'. I woke up and was like, 'I get it, I'm a product.'

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Morning

• Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Atmosphere
  • Brains

• Your reader is interested in a guileless, fresh, first-time-we-talked-about-it way. What a great liberation that is. And teenagers, if you respect them, will follow you a lot further than adults will, without fear of being a genre that they may not like or have been told not to like. They just want a story.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Time
  • Great
  • May

• Geneticists in the early 1900s believed that nature - in an effort to avoid wasting precious space within chromosomes - would pack as many genes into each chromosome as possible.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Nature
  • Space
  • Effort

• I've been disappointed by so many movie stars that I've seen, and they go out and they don't do it up, you know. And they don't - I just get so disappointed.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Up
  • Movie
  • You

• Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done.

  

  Sam Ewing
  • Done
  • You
  • Said

• If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if folk music means music for the people, and playing music to entertain them and share different messages, then sure, I'd like to think that I'm part folk singer.

  

  Langhorne Slim
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• I didn't want to be an accountant; I found myself being a banker, which was a bit different. I went to university, and I was going to do a Ph.D. in the States, but I didn't get the funding for it, so I had two years where I had a bit of a wobble and didn't really know what I wanted to do, and I ended up working as a banker.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Up
  • Different
  • Want

• Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.

  

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