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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Music is my work, writing songs is my work, touring is my work, going into the studio is my work.
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Think it's so unfair when people think that you're not a "real artist" unless you're getting paid for it....I personally know so many poets that work a 9 to 5 in a cubicle and come home and write poetry. Their poetry is just as powerful and moving as anything that I've ever written, if not more.
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If you've got somebody's aspects in your experience that you don't like, there's only one reason they're there. You keep evoking them with your attention to them. Without knowing about Law of Attraction, you have - through your old habit of observation - achieved vibrational harmony with the parts of them that you do not like, and you keep summoning those parts from them by your constant vibrational offering of them.
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Now I take the summer off, relax, and I know that at the end of July we're gonna start another season.
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Working with real wolves has been exhilarating. They're so amazing. They're these beautiful, brilliant animals and they're great to work with.
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Fine writing is a distinct disadvantage. So is unique literary style. They take attention from the subject.
