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• David Ogilvy made his copywriters come up 100 different headlines for every ad they wrote.

  David Ogilvy

  Different, Made, Come Up

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• Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!

  Erica Jong

  Love, Song, Good Life

  Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.27, Open Road Media

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• Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.

  Mara Liasson

  Anniversary, Years, Political

  "Obama, Romney Pull Campaign Ads On Sept. 11". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish and Melissa Block, www.npr.org. September 11, 2012.

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• Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad hoc plot device.

  David Langford

  Technology, Plot, Mercenary

  David Langford (2003). “Up Through an Empty House of Stars”, p.122, Wildside Press LLC

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• I love doing photo shoots... I mean, if I could just sign with IMG and do ad campaigns and model more, I’d do that... Because that’s fun for me. That’s not work.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Fun, Mean, Campaigns

  "Flashback Friday: La Vida Lohan". Interview with Luke Crisell, nylon.com. April 2009.

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• The Work is merely four questions; it's not even a thing. It has no motive, no strings. It's nothing without your answers. These four questions will join any program you've got and enhance it. Any religion you have - they'll enhance it. If you have no religion, they will bring you joy. And they'll burn up anything that isn't true for you. They'll burn through to the reality that has always been waiting.

  Byron Katie

  Reality, Joy, Waiting

  "Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life". Book by Byron Katie, 2002.

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• I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.

  Yvette Nicole Brown

  Beautiful, Queens, Flawless

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• An ad that pretends to be art is – at absolute best – like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you.

  David Foster

  Art, Want Something, Genuine Smiles

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• It’s short-sighted to think ads won’t one day end up wherever humans are - even the moon.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Moon, Thinking, One Day

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• That's the kind of ad I like, facts, facts, facts.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Facts, Advertising, Kind

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• By Mamun's time medical schools were extremely active in Baghdad. The first free public hospital was opened in Baghdad during the Caliphate of Haroon-ar-Rashid. As the system developed, physicians and surgeons were appointed who gave lectures to medical students and issued diplomas to those who were considered qualified to practice. The first hospital in Egypt was opened in 872 AD and thereafter public hospitals sprang up all over the empire from Spain and the Maghrib to Persia.

  John Bagot Glubb

  Islamic, School, Egypt

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• In a recent attack ad, the NRA claims that President Obama cares about his own children more than he cares about other children. In response, President Obama was like, 'Yeah, that's how families work.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Children, Gun, President

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• Luke [the gospel writer] screws up his dating by tactlessly mentioning events that historians are capable of independently checking. There was indeed a census under Governor Quirinius - a local census, not one decreed by Caesar Augustus for the Empire as a whole - but it happened too late in 6 AD, long after Herod's death.

  Richard Dawkins

  Dating, Long, Religion

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• Somebody finally has to get out an ad, often after hours. Somebody has to stare at a blank piece of paper. Probably nothing was ever more bleak. This is probably the very height of lonesomeness. He is one person and he is alone

  Fairfax M. Cone

  Business, After Hours, Pieces

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• No, I don't think a 68-year-old copywriter . . . can write with the kids. That he's as creative. That he's as fresh. But he may be a better surgeon. His ad may not be quite as fresh and glowing as the Madison Ave. fraternity would like to see it be, and yet he might write an ad that will produce five times the sales. And that's the name of the game, isn't it?

  Rosser Reeves

  Business, Writing, Kids

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• Publicity is absolutely critical. A good PR story is infinitely more effective than a front page ad.

  Richard Branson

  Communication, Stories, Pages

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• I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we still have a long way to go before we find it, is a more beautiful, more wonderful place than a universe tricked out with capricious ad hoc magic.

  Richard Dawkins

  Beautiful, Atheist, Believe

  Richard Dawkins (2000). “Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you think about how healthcare is delivered, it's on an ad hoc basis. Someone comes into a hospital, someone comes into a pharmacy, someone comes into a doctor. But beyond those touchpoints, the patients are on their own. There's no real continuity of care.

  Chris Viehbacher

  Real, Thinking, Doctors

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• ...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of a self-sacrificing devotion to the flag, a leader, a religeous faith or political conviction.

  Arthur Koestler

  Selfish, Sacrifice, Leader

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• It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and higher with the ad-vancing years, and that, too with sur-prising strides. Brain-work comes as easily to the old as physical exertion to the child. One is moving, it is true, towards the end of life, but that end is now a goal, and not a reef in which the vessel may be dashed.

  George Sand

  Children, Moving, Thinking

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• I remember the day we were hanging around the band's commune and Roger came in with the press kit for a rock band (Moby Grape) any of us had ever seen. It looked psychedelic, yet it was done by ad people. I believe the word "hype" was coined on that very day.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Humorous, Believe, Rocks

  Cynthia Heimel (2002). “If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?!”, p.187, Grove Press

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• Infiniti ads are part of an exciting new trend called "Advertising Whose Sole Purpose Is to Irritate You."

  Dave Barry

  Humorous, Purpose, Trends

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• Some jobs are worse than actual wives. Ad agency vs. Matrimony, for instance: Even the most capricious and demanding spouse is not going to divorce you for refusing to spend forty hours a week making up lies about toilet paper.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Jobs, Lying, Humorous

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, p.42, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster. It will get more people to know it's bad.

  William Bernbach

  People, Design, Campaigns

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• You must make the product interesting, not just make the ad different.

  Rosser Reeves

  Interesting, Marketing, Different

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