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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Whether we can call 'Hell or High Water' this rogue buddy bank-heist movie, it's also a meditation on assimilation and failure and what happens when someone loses their purpose.
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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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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real.
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Editorial cartoons should be smart and substantive, provocative and informative. They should stir passions and deep emotions. Editorial cartoons should be the catalyst for thought, and frankly speaking, if you can make politicians think, that is an accomplishment itself.
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We have amazing stunt performers and in Miguel Sapochnik, a director who's so good at spending hours and hours and hours on every shot beforehand, so that he knows exactly what he wants when he gets to the battlefield on the day. We only shoot ten-hour days, so you have to pack a lot into those ten hours.
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Fine writing is a distinct disadvantage. So is unique literary style. They take attention from the subject.
