Ann Bridge (Mary Ann Dolling) Quotes
What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things into an end in themselves, a virtue.
Quotes to Explore
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
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Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
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Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.
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Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.
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You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
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I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.
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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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'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude.
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The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.
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I don't suppose there is a more daring or more impudent rascal on earth than a good American beggar. It is always his boast that he has begged an ex-president, or the present one, and he claims to have received benefits from a number of well-known millionaires, actors, and prize-fighters.
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A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
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We shot 'Oblivion' in Iceland; that was amazing. It's so, so beautiful. They didn't have any Waldorf Hotels there, though; we stayed in the middle of nowhere!
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When you're put in a position to really affect young people who are going to run the world one day, if you're able to be in their life at a young age and make a positive impact, I think that's a beautiful thing.
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Our State Department is often wrong and timid.
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Beauty is very much broader than just to the eye. It is our whole, positive response to life. An artist is fortunate in that his work is the inner contemplation of beauty, of perfection in life. We cannot make anything perfectly, but with inner contemplation of perfection, we can suggest it.
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Advertising is not a rifle; it is a shotgun, and any campaign featuring outdoor boards of a cartoon animal inevitably will catch children in its spray.
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When you listen to an album, it shouldn't feel like, "That's the girl song," "That's the club song." I shouldn't know what you're thinking while you're making the song. I don't want to know what the artist is thinking.
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No hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me.
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There is a fundamental flaw in interpretations of sharia that say a woman or man should be punished for sex outside of marriage.
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What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things into an end in themselves, a virtue.
