Claude C. Hopkins Quotes
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I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.
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I use my platform as a tool and a way to speak about greater change.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe.
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I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
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It's better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even five of those somethings, that you'll never bother to take out of the shopping bag. By the way, this advice also applies to discount love interests. And half-price sushi.
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I will just generalise it that anything that I find too disgusting is not worth an answer.
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Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.
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The only way you know what it is to be a boxer is to be one.
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
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I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action.
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If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
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Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new ones on the spot, that is what I called talented!
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I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.
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It didn't occur to him that she might have chosen to remain this way. That where he saw reserve and loneliness, Cassandra saw self-preservation and the knowledge that it was safer when one had less to lose.
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What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a great amount of labour and sweat in such a way that it may afterward appear, however much it was laboured upon, to have been done almost quickly and almost without any labour, and very easily, although it was not.
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The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.
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If a claim is worth making, make it in the most specific way.
