George Carlin Quotes About Advertising

Quotes about: Advertising

• Every time you're exposed to advertising in America you're reminded that this country's most profitable business is still the manufacture, packaging, distribution, and marketing of bullshit. High-quality, grade-A, prime-cut, pure American bullshit.

  George Carlin

  Country, Cutting, America

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

• I literally didn't know my father. My mother had been a secretary, and after she and my father split, she went back to work for an advertising executive. So my older brother and I were "latch-door kids." We went home for lunch and after school by ourselves.

  George Carlin

  Mother, Brother, Father

  Source: reprints.longform.org

• My mother and her plans for my future. She had it all worked out. I would attend a nice college, then get a job in advertising. "You'll be one of those smart-looking fellows in their Madison Avenue suits." And I rebelled against [my mother] and her values and her plans for my future at every opportunity.

  George Carlin

  Mother, Jobs, Nice

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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