Edward Bernays Quotes
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I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.
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What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
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I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and this and that.
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When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.
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I introduced the Food Security Improvement Act in Congress to remedy the fact that most SNAP beneficiaries find themselves skipping meals or running out of benefits every month.
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Vocally, I have learned to find my strength, and my voice has developed a lot since 'Be Here.' I learned to sing with all of my body.
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I think that if writers are tempted to do other things, they ought to go do other things. They should not write if they don't feel like it. I say this as a competitor. I am not interested in encouraging people who are in competition with me.
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Let's make math fun and sexy and glamorous. Smart is sexy, that's one of my main messages.
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I think, by nature you know, I'm very attracted and I gravitate toward the very strong girl who can watch a ballgame, but who's also extremely feminine.
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I like to wear tight jeans. Most of my stuff is pretty slim fit.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.
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No one wants to see curvy women.
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The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
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Ariel may look a lot like Barbie, and her adventure may be limited to romance and over with the wedding bells, but unlike, say, Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty, she's active, brave and determined, the heroine of her own life. She even rescues the prince. And that makes her a rare fish, indeed, in the world of preschool culture.
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This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.
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A leader has to know how the system functions - not just the system of government but the whole social and economic system, including business, the unions, and the universities.
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The situation of the general government, if it can be called a government, is shaken to its foundation, and liable to be overturned by every blast.
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We must take our troubles to the Lord, but we must do more than that, we must leave them there.
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Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.
