Claude C. Hopkins Quotes
Remember the people you address are selfish, as we all are. They care nothing about your interests or profit. They seek service for themselves.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
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When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.
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You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.
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The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?
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My brother is really, really slow.
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All you have to do is to dream big and try to fulfil it.
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In times of crisis, the incumbent suffers. And the bigger the crisis, the greater the punishment inflicted on those in power unless they do something that makes a change.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place.
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I think the most important thing journalism taught me is to mine for details. The details are key. You can't try to be funny or strange or poignant; you have to let the details be funny or strange or poignant for you.
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Here lies W. C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia.
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Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
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I am for anything that makes teens visible in an honest way... in other words, anything that represents them the way they are, positively or negatively.
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As we commemorate his birth each year in our holiday celebrations, we should remember that our joy in his first coming should prefigure the even greater joy we will feel at his Second Coming.
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The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.
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If you just want to use the system, instead of hacking on its internals, you don't need source code.
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A whole set of values comes with fast food: Everything should be fast, cheap and easy; there's always more where that came from; there are no seasons; you shouldn't be paid very much for preparing food. It's uniformity and a lack of connection.
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Remember the people you address are selfish, as we all are. They care nothing about your interests or profit. They seek service for themselves.
