Advertising Quotes - Page 17

• People generally like happy endings, which is something I learned from my years in advertising. I like happy endings myself, but only if they're honest. I'm just as happy with a terrible, hopeless ending.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Years, People, Honest

  Interview with Claire Zulkey, zulkey.com. May 28, 2004.

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• In general, advertising isn't a "creative" atmosphere. It's a business atmosphere and your job is puzzle solving. My favorite aspect of the business, I guess, was presenting to clients. What I enjoyed least were the clients. Worried corporate brand managers, trying to dumb-down their ads for the stupid American population. I hated the disrespect that these people had for "consumers."

  Augusten Burroughs

  Jobs, Stupid, People

  Interview with Claire Zulkey, zulkey.com. May 28, 2004.

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• I thought, I can't do advertising any more, so I was downloading all these PDF applications from community colleges. And I thought, I'll become a paramedic. I'll get a two-year associate degree, if I can get in.

  Augusten Burroughs

  College, Years, Two

  Source: www.bookslut.com

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• I'm a photographer and my pictures are used in advertising campaigns. But I don't do advertising. Do you hear me? I take pictures. I'm not an advertising agency. I'm not an advertising man.

  Oliviero Toscani

  Men, Agency, Campaigns

  Source: valuet.wordpress.com

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• Communication has always been at the service of power. Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel for the Pope. Is it not an advertisement for the Church? I try to make the best pictures I can and sometimes they are used in advertising campaigns.

  Oliviero Toscani

  Communication, Church, Trying

  Source: valuet.wordpress.com

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• Communication, that's what I do. Advertising is the best way to communicate because you reach a lot of people. I still cant understand though, why people are shocked by something that obviously exists. Its like a family that avoids talking about its real problems.

  Oliviero Toscani

  Real, Communication, Talking

  Source: valuet.wordpress.com

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• Advertising agencies don't care about a better world in the end. They are servants of their client: what the client wants is what they get. Their only problem is to not lose the budget. I think its a shame because advertising is so boring and it can be so interesting. They should ask more artists to make interesting campaigns.

  Oliviero Toscani

  Thinking, Artist, Agency

  Source: valuet.wordpress.com

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• If people can't take the heat and can't take the controversy then they shouldn't be involved in advertising of reality TV because there is so much heat and controversy in reality TV.

  Jackie Warner

  Reality, People, Tvs

  Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. May 25, 2008.

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• As a graphic artist, my job on a local paper was creating the advertising as well as working as a journalist on sports and community issues. There are many more jobs I've done in my day, I can't remember them all.

  Franny Armstrong

  Sports, Jobs, Artist

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• I am not interested in having somebody telling that what I have to water down my message or that some advertising person would not like it.

  Franny Armstrong

  Water, Messages, Not Interested

  Source: www.lidf.co.uk

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• What is the problem with the advertising industry is they're still, for me, what I call in Africa is the colonial mind of white men, because the black person or the other colour is out of the line. They're not good for this sort of purpose.

  Berhan Ahmed

  Men, White Man, Black

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• All I've ever wanted for my kids is for them to be happy. There's no pressure on Victoria to do anything, but she genuinely loves performing. My son Simon is in advertising. They're both tremendous people. I don't think they've ever been awkward, even Simon as a teenager.

  Tony Blackburn

  Teenager, Kids, Son

  The MIRROR Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 25, 2007.

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• Advertising. I'd definitely like to try that. In fact, it was a genuine second choice career-wise. I'd be good at selling stuff - I've got the gift of the gab.

  Tony Blackburn

  Wise, Careers, Choices

  The MIRROR Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 25, 2007.

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• I think as consumers Europeans are a lot more artist loyal irrespective of the genre of music or the type of project or the collaborative effort, and Americans are more media-loyal, because they need to be fed that media to know what's going on, because we're so inundated with promotion and marketing and everything that's going on - advertising.

  Serj Tankian

  Artist, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The spiritual leader will choose the hidden path of sacrificial service and approval of the Lord over the flamboyant self-advertising of the world.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Leadership, Christian, Spiritual

  J. Oswald Sanders (2008). “Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books”, p.66, Moody Publishers

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• In the last couple of weeks I have seen the ads for the Wonder Bra.
  Is that really a problem in this country? Men not paying enough attention to women’s breasts?

  Hugh Grant

  Funny, Country, Couple

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• Advertising is just a symptom, a tactic. Marketing is about far more than that.

  Seth

  Marketing, Tactics, Symptoms

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• Stop advertising and start innovating.

  Seth

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• Powerful advertising is anticipated, personal, and relevant.

  Seth

  Powerful, Relevant

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• Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.

  Phillip Adams

  Men, Political, Together

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• Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.

  Robin Day

  Thinking, Ideas, Evil

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• I don't think there is enough educational programming, but unfortunately, television is built around advertising and those shows don't get the big ratings.

  Will McDonough

  Educational, Thinking, Television

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• Somewhere in there, among the worries, questions, advice and advertising jingles, lives your intuition, your true 'inner voice.' You can hear it to the extent that you give it your attention.

  Martha Beck

  Voice, Giving, Worry

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• Good advertising can make people buy your product even if it sucks ... A dollar spent on brainwashing is more cost-effective than a dollar spent on product improvement.

  Scott Adams

  People, Dollars, Cost

  Scott Adams (1996). “The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions”

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• I've had it-the agencies, the winking, the networks, the ratings. Anyone who thinks TV is an art medium is crazy-it's an advertising medium.

  Robert Altman

  Art, Crazy, Thinking

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