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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You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.
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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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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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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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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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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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The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.
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Everything you can touch and depend on in our society goes back to science.
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Laughter tends to mock the pompous and the pretentious; all man's boastful gadding about, all his pretty pomps, his hoary customs, his wornout creeds, changing the glitter of them into the dullest hue of lead.
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Winter isn't forever. Winter is always followed by spring. And it's how to take advantage of whatever season you're in.
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History is full of instances of people who challenged the mighty forces of evil and they were not only fighting a lonely battle but were left alone to die.
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The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by intertia.
