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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Writing has never been a driving force within me.
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I thought a director was like a pillow who sat under the writer, supporting them and submitting to their vision. It took me a long time to realise that what a writer really wants is a production that matches the play and the writing. It is the only way the play can achieve its full potential.
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I'm never sure who I'm writing for, or who's reading me, but I definitely see myself in conspiracy with my readers.
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I'm a little bit phobic about stains on my clothes, so I never travel without a little packet of organic stain remover.
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Fine writing is a distinct disadvantage. So is unique literary style. They take attention from the subject.
