Claude C. Hopkins Quotes
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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
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Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
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I like to be supportive and a role model.
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One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.
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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
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I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.
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A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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My father worked, and my mother played bridge. Every time I went out of the house, I was chauffeur-driven with my nanny next to me to stop me being kidnapped.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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As far as the live shows go, we're not leapfrogging all the smaller venues. We would have bypassed these kind of shows and gone straight to the Arena shows, but we didn't want to.
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A great revolution is hardest of all on the great revolutionists.
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Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another's rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasureĀits hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its effects deprave forever.
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The sky was horribly dark, but one could distinctly see tattered clouds, and between them fathomless black patches. Suddenly I noticed in one of these patches a star, and began watching it intently. That was because that star had given me an idea: I decided to kill myself that night.
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Sometimes you don't have to say anything. Silence speaks it all.
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Genius is the art of taking pains.
