Claude C. Hopkins Quotes
Fine writing is a distinct disadvantage. So is unique literary style. They take attention from the subject.
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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As with lemon juice, the more sorrel you use, the more it has to be balanced with something sweet, starchy or creamy - it's a yin-yang approach to cooking that I find rather calming.
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
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I never try to follow a trend or fashion.
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I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.
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A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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Winston Churchill would be great to have around the table.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.
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I think my first hit was probably '24 is a Rubberband Man,' which was my second album. My first project, it was very well received in the Southeast region, all throughout the South and parts of the Midwest. It was very well received, but I didn't get national exposure on my second album.
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The number one foreign policy goal of Russia is control of the former Soviet space.
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Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded.
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I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements.
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What are you doing here?" she asked. "You forgot something when you left Halstead Hall," he said hoarsely. "What?" Her heart lept into her throat as he strode purposefully toward her. "Me.
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Fine writing is a distinct disadvantage. So is unique literary style. They take attention from the subject.
