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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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 really love Philadelphia and all of the fans, my teammates, the front office, the organization, everybody. I know I'm going to miss them. I really appreciate everything we did together. On the other side, I am happy because I have a chance to go to the playoffs. Another opportunity, maybe, to go to the World Series.
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The training kicked in and we quickly went through our emergency procedures, I took manual control and I got the spacecraft under control and stopped about 50 meters from the space station. So, the net effect of the failure was that we were actually turning and speeding up towards the space station when we should have been slowing down, so it was quite a dangerous situation. But we got manual control, performed the first manual docking to the station at night. The training pays off. It was just automatic. We had our books out already, we went right to the right procedures and executed them.
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I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.
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A two-party system is way too good for those two parties.
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I've never been pushy. People have said I should have been, more, but I'm not sure. I've watched hugely ambitious people: the minute they've got a success, they know where it's going, they know how to deal with it, and it all happens for them. Great. But that's not the way I - well, I don't like to use the word 'operate'.
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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.
