Edward Bernays Quotes
The American motion picture is the greatest unconscious carrier of propaganda in the world today. It is a great distributor for ideas and opinions. The motion picture can standardize the ideas and habits of a nation. Because pictures are made to meet market demands, they reflect, emphasize and even exaggerate broad popular tendencies, rather than stimulate new ideas and opinions. The motion picture avails itself only of ideas and facts which are in vogue. As the newspaper seeks to purvey news, it seeks to purvey entertainment.
Quotes to Explore
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In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.
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I bumped into my cousin after she'd shaved her hair very short, and she looked incredible. She seemed so effortless and cool, and I wanted that. And, I've had it like that ever since.
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One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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My parents are high school sweethearts.
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I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.
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In my district, I know we have thousands of little creeks and streams, some of which only fill up when it rains. Nationwide, they're in the tens of thousands.
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There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.
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Human beings can remain spiritual and religious while enjoying the benefits of rational administration of their affairs.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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At some point in our lives there's something about every one of us that makes us feel like an outsider, I believe.
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Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.
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I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth.
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The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.
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When people think about reparations, they immediately think about people who've been dead for 100 years.
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I think of myself as an entertainment arsenal. Like I have my acting bazooka and my music machete. And you don't know what I'm going to come at you with.
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If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so.
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I do like children, but only as people. Not as if they're a special category.
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I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that. As my skill and knowledge of the instrument grew, I found lead started to come naturally. Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer. Ha ha!
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There's never any ebb in human misery.
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I have readers tell me that I must be bored, but that's not true. I am never bored with the characters. I like them.
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I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign.
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The possible ranks higher than the actual.
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The American motion picture is the greatest unconscious carrier of propaganda in the world today. It is a great distributor for ideas and opinions. The motion picture can standardize the ideas and habits of a nation. Because pictures are made to meet market demands, they reflect, emphasize and even exaggerate broad popular tendencies, rather than stimulate new ideas and opinions. The motion picture avails itself only of ideas and facts which are in vogue. As the newspaper seeks to purvey news, it seeks to purvey entertainment.
