Edward Bernays Quotes
The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by intertia.
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I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
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There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.
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The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.
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The great thing about all my siblings is we all agree we had a horrendous childhood. It's not like it doesn't affect us now; it affects us every day, in everything we do.
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Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.
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Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.
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I'd say 80 percent of my auditions go very horribly.
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As far as the UFC, if they offer us a fair deal, then we would be open to fighting in the UFC.
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Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
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Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.
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Anybody who's spent thirteen or fourteen years in print journalism has a lot of stories he thinks were inwardly satisfying as far as preparation, understanding, and diligence.
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I hope I did it the way my peers did it before me. I didn't do anything but try to play hard.
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I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'
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In lean times, you get plenty of sleep, and you're not flying around everywhere.
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I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of that time. Poets were still poor, had little sponsored work, and could not depend on a sympathetic reaction to their poetry. But the idea of the poet was honored.
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Queen Latifah used to help me out with my kids, because while we were all out on tour - Public Enemy, Naughty By Nature, Queen Latifah, Heavy D - when Public Enemy went onstage, I didn't have anybody solid to watch my kids. So, Latifah would help me out.
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It is ourselves that we must spread under Christ's feet, not coats nor lifeless branches or shoots of trees.
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The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by intertia.
