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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I believe that all the important people in my life prior to 1982 were victimized by my illness.
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The first time I came to New York in 1952, I was busy with music. I made the acquaintance at this period with John Cage, and also the acquaintance of Varese for the first time. We were very good friends. He gave me some scores, and we recorded them a little later.
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It's the same game, I don't care where you are playing, Minnesota, Kansas City or New York, it's the same game.
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Everybody has an idea of the kind of society they'd like to live in, and I would like to live in one where our senior politicians were spirited and original and possibly even good at what they do.
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I haven't grown since I was 13, and every girl cast opposite me isn't allowed to wear heels on camera, for fear that I would look minuscule. In all of the casting calls for my best friends on every project, it says in big, bold, red letters: 'Please no high heels.' It's a little embarrassing.
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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.
