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• TiVo and other digital recording devices have confounded advertisers. The ad industry sees the technology as a threat to their product.

  Simon Sinek

  Technology, Digital, Threat

  "The Ad Industry Needs More Accountability" by Simon Sinek, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2010.

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• Blog-based businesses have lower cost structures and are more 'authentic,' and as a result are drawing larger shares of ad budgets.

  Fred Wilson

  Drawing, Cost, Share

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• If you have a native monetization system where the atomic unit of content is the ad unit, that scales down all the way to a small screen experience. That's why Twitter is performing so well on mobile.

  Fred Wilson

  Way, Scales, Performing

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• I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.

  Debra Winger

  Parenting, Age, Roles

  "Book World: Debra Winger on 'Undiscovered'". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. July 22, 2008.

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• I literally coded Facebook in my dorm room and launched it from my dorm room. I rented a server for $85 a month, and I funded it by putting an ad on the side, and we've funded ever since by putting ads on the side.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Rooms, Months, Dorms

  Interview with Charlie Rose, techcrunch.com. November 7, 2011.

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• How do you stand out as a fashion ad campaign? By using people off the street it does generate buzz.

  Alber Elbaz

  Fashion, Using People, Doe

  "When fashion and reality collide". Interview with Emanuella Grinberg, www.cnn.com. July 30, 2012.

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• My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Book, Reading, Three

  A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Mother, Children, Opinion

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.222, Penguin

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• Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Struggle, Power

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• In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents per copy from subscribers, $1.25 at the newsstand and a whopping $5 per copy from ads. The ad revenue let them run a far bigger newsroom than subscribers were paying for.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Running, Wall, Microsoft

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• Every night I watch the nightly news. It's funded by the pharmaceutical companies. Virtually every ad is a drug ad. They get their say every night on the nightly news through advertising.

  Michael Moore

  Night, Drug, Watches

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• Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Agency, Today, Classroom

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• I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads, because the culture of advertising is so false and phony that I just... ugh, you know?

  Alan Ball

  Watches, Culture, Ugh

  "True Blood creator Alan Ball on season two: sink your teeth into this". Interview with Rebecca Nicholson, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2010.

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• Ten bajillion product ads notwithstanding, your looks are another thing that's basically genetic.

  Martha Beck

  Looks, Products, Ten

  "Stop Worrying! Anxiety-Busting Advice from Martha Beck" by Martha Beck, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2012.

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• Just because your ad looks good is no insurance that it will get looked at. How many people do you know who are impeccably groomed... but dull?

  William Bernbach

  Humorous, People, Looks

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• I regard a great ad as the most beautiful thing in the world.

  Leo Burnett

  Beautiful, World, Regard

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• When I think of invention, I always think of America. You're always seeing ads: 'Have you got the next big idea?' There seems to be that spirit in America of inventions and inventors.

  Simon Cowell

  Thinking, America, Ideas

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• Now I can broadcast to an audience of several million people on the 'Today' programme. I can talk about the day's news. But on radio, believe it or not, we have notes and scripts. And while we might ad lib the odd wryly amusing asides, they come at the frequency of a suburban bus. About one every 90 minutes.

  Evan Davis

  Believe, People, News

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• I like to read the 'Financial Times' when I'm traveling. 'Economist.' 'Ad Busters.'

  Mos Def

  Financial, Busters, Economist

  "FEATURE: Mos Def, Quiet As Kept 2.0". XXL Magazine Interview, www.xxlmag.com. June 15, 2009.

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• Thanks to capitalism, the importance placed on beauty has never been so manipulated. We are the guinea pigs force-fed ads that tell us how pathetic we are: that we will never be loved, happy or valuable unless we have the body, the face, the hair, even the personality that will apparently be ours, if only we buy their products.

  Beth Ditto

  Hair, Pigs, Personality

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2007.

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• We had all week to rehearse. An audience would come in at the end of the week and we'd our little show. Most of the ad- libbing happened during the week on the show.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Littles, Week, Ends

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• Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond the thought of dying, was coming across an ad in the newspaper for pink breast cancer teddy bears. I am not that afraid of dying, but I am terrified of dying with a pink teddy bear under my arm.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Cancer, Scary, Dying

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• Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper small ads, had a good point to make. With revolutionary music, any text can be set to work.

  James Fenton

  Needs, Revolutionary, Newspapers

  "Soul music" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2002.

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• Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don't ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved.

  Harrison Ford

  Thinking, Trying, Lines

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• I'm not even really a joke-teller. I can do ad-lib and banter, but I don't do jokes.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Banter, Jokes, Can Do

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