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• I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Real, Done

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• The cave art of Madison Avenue has been by far the most innovative and educative art form of the twentieth century.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Business, Caves

  "Culture Is Our Business". Book by Marshall McLuhan, 1970.

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• I also do not like the idea of soft money, these issue ads - people don't know where the money is coming from, millions and millions of dollars outside of the control of a candidate - there's no accountability.

  Scott McCallum

  Ideas, Issues, People

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• There should be a background check every time a firearm is transferred. You shouldn't be able to go to a gun show and buy guns without a background check. There are Internet gun sales, classified ads in the newspapers - and you can buy guns without background checks.

  Michael D. Barnes

  Gun, Able, Internet

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• The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil.

  Jeff Bezos

  Business, Home, Vacation

  "The inner Bezos" by Chip Bayers, www.wired.com. March 1, 1999.

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• But the real intent of my writing is not to say, you must think in this way. The real intent is to enrich: here are some of the many important facets of this extraordinary Kosmos; have you thought of including them in your worldview? My work is an attempt to make room in the Kosmos for all the dimensions, levels, domains, waves, memes, modes, individuals, cultures, and so on ad infinitum.

  Ken Wilber

  Real, Writing, Thinking

  Ken Wilber (2001). “A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality”, p.140, Shambhala Publications

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• Too many people, including the ad industry, believe the future is something that happens and just rolls them over in it's wake.

  Cindy Gallop

  Believe, Creativity, People

  "Cindy Gallop: it's time to rethink the advertising business" by Chris Smith, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2012.

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• The White House begun airing their TV commercials to re-elect the president, and the John Kerry campaign is condemning his use of 9/11 in the ads. He said, it is unconscionable to use the tragic memory of a war in order to get elected, unless of course, it's the Vietnam War.

  Jay Leno

  Memories, War, Order

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• The real fact of the matter is that nobody reads ads. People read what interests them, and sometimes it's an ad.

  Howard Gossage

  Wise, Witty, Real

  Howard Luck Gossage, Kim B. Rotzoll, Jarlath Graham, June Barrows Mussey (1986). “Is there any hope for advertising?”, Univ of Illinois Pr

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• Why one Ad is worth more to a paper than 40 Editorials.

  Will Rogers

  Paper, Advertising, Forty

  "The Illiterate Digest".

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• As a former lifelong Republican, it pains me to tell you that today's Republicans - and their standard-bearers, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan - just aren't up to the task. They're beholden to 'my way or the highway' bullies, indebted to billionaires who bankroll ads and allergic to the very idea of compromise.

  Charlie Crist

  Pain, Ideas, Bully

  "Charlie Crist DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 06, 2012.

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• Leave America and you'll find that the consumers in many other countries enjoy watching advertising. Not because the products are better, but because the ads are produced to be entertaining. Sometimes they are funny. Sometimes they are dramatic. Sometimes they are just beautiful.

  Simon Sinek

  Beautiful, Country, America

  "I Hate You: A Tale About Advertising" by Simon Sinek, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 2010.

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• The day Metallica's over, i'm not going to put an ad looking for another band. I'll put my drumsticks on the shelf and there's 14 other things I wanna try. Metallica's the only band I've ever been and it's the only I ever wanna be in.

  Lars Ulrich

  Trying, Band, Metallica

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• The ad industry thinks their clients are their customers. They think the companies who pay for the production are the ones they are supposed to serve. So the ads they produce make their clients happy... but infuriate the rest of us.

  Simon Sinek

  Thinking, Pay, Clients

  "I Hate You: A Tale About Advertising" by Simon Sinek, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 2010.

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• Republicans are already trying to paint Hillary Clinton as too old to be president. In fact, a new ad claims she’s so old that she could be a Republican.

  Conan O'Brien

  Trying, President, Facts

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• We do not see the danger clearly enough that we develop images adequate to our state of civilization. When you watch TV, you know instantly that there's something wrong with the images. When you open a magazine and see the ads, you know there's something wrong with the images. And it's unhealthy and not good and outright dangerous, in my opinion.

  Werner Herzog

  Civilization, Tvs, Watches

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. June 11, 2003.

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• A good ad which is not run never produces sales.

  Leo Burnett

  Running, Motivational Sales, Inspirational Sales

  Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

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• When I was in college, my school newspaper accepted an ad from a Holocaust revisionist organization. This would have been offensive on most college campuses across the country, but I went to a school with a very large Jewish population, so the ad, as you might expect, stirred absolute outrage.

  Simon Sinek

  Country, School, College

  "Work Together: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• I did Playboy. There was an ad in the paper for playmates. Playboy called me and flew me to Los Angeles, and I was on the March cover of 1992.

  Anna Nicole Smith

  Paper, March, Los Angeles

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• IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Smartphones, Data, Circles

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• No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.

  Barbara Walters

  Thinking, Literature, Poetic

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• Modern cosmetic surgeons have a direct financial interest in a social role for women that requires them to feel ugly. They do not simply advertise for a share of a market that already exists: Their advertisements create new markets. It is a boom industry because it is influentially placed to create its own demand through the pairing of text with ads in women's magazines. The industry takes out ads and gets coverage; women get cut open. They pay their money and they takes their chances. As surgeons grow richer, they are able to command larger and brighter ad spaces.

  Naomi Wolf

  Cutting, Space, Roles

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• Microsoft was not a mysterious, strange entity. You put your PC on and there's an ad for them.

  Jim Cramer

  Microsoft, Strange, Mysterious

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• You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib.

  Denzel Washington

  Life, Success, Faith

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• The ad in the paper said 'Big Sale. Last Week.' Why advertise? I already missed it. They're just rubbing it in.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  Funny, Paper, Lasts

  FaceBook post by Yakov Smirnoff from Apr 07, 2014

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