Leo Burnett Quotes
I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
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I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
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Life must continue, even with the security situation so bad, because I have ambitions. I love this sport too much.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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We'll always be fascinated by people who live above the law.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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The major source of photochemical smog - petroleum-fueled vehicles - can be replaced by emission-free electric vehicles.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
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It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
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Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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Birth was the death of him.
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People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.
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I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.
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If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.
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And learn the luxury of doing good.
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The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.
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I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
