Claude C. Hopkins Quotes
Scientific advertising has altered many old plans and conceptions. It has proved many long established methods to be folly.
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
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I think that T.V. shows are more like working at a home. You know you're going to the same place every day, working with the same people, the same cast and crew. You're in a dressing room instead of a trailer, so I think that that's more of a normal sort of lifestyle.
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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If developed countries' citizens want to feel slightly better about their economies' slow growth and high unemployment, they should contemplate how much worse matters could be without the institutions that they have.
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.
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I think that, a lot of times in Hollywood pictures, the reality, the messy reality of women's lives - it's avoided, because I think people are just afraid of it. There's a standard that women are set to, to try to keep everybody comfortable.
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It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.
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I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.
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Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.
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The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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Abraham Lincoln was killed by the forces of white supremacy.
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My family, in a way, gives me a reference as to who I am as an individual, and my work gives me a reference as to who I am as a Homo sapiens. I think that's a very perfect match, in my view.
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ISIS is on the offense, with the ability to attack at will, anyplace, anytime.
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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
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Social media can help or hurt you. People are more into other people's lives than their own. Everyone sees everyone else's success online, and we allow it to magnify our own failure.
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There are certain sounds that have a loaded past. Like the sound of a harp, if you go back to old movies, represents a dream sequence; it transports you there.
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The goal of the corps of NCOs, whose duty is the day-to-day business of running the Army so that the officer corps has time to command it, is to continue to improve our Army at every turn. We want to leave it better than we found it. Regardless of the kind of unit you're in, it ought to be an "elite" outfit, because its NCOs can make it one.
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In order for a man to feel whole, he needs someone to look up to and someone to look up to him.
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I thought to myself, Join the army. It's free. So I figured while I'm here I'll lose a few pounds.
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Scientific advertising has altered many old plans and conceptions. It has proved many long established methods to be folly.
