Advertising Quotes - Page 25

• The abstract, especially in those rough sketches, is very important to me, perhaps because of my advertising background, where layout is so important. Sometimes those first few lines cut the paper into such satisfying shapes that I don't want to go on, but I always do, adding nostrils and nipples and bootstraps until I have filled the paper up as usual.

  Tom of Finland

  Cutting, Important, Usual

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• There was a period of time in America where the advertising world actually went to the housewives of America and had them write jingles that would appeal to them. It was actually brilliant marketing.

  Julianne Moore

  Writing, America, Marketing

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• I believe that life is hard. That we all are going to walk through things that are hard and challenging, and yet advertising wants us to believe that it's all easy.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Believe, Life Is Hard, Challenges

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• If you look at the history of advertising, most of them were Jews, so it was only a matter of time before 'Mad Men' explored that area of advertising.

  Ben Feldman

  Men, Mad, Looks

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• In other words, if you - the cost of promoting movies, the advertising and promotion of a movie, the budget is almost as large as the cost of the movie.

  Richard Attenborough

  Cost, Promotion, Promoting

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• Advertising is the tax you pay for being unremarkable.

  Robert Stephens

  Pay, Taxes

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• Advertising is a tax for having an unremarkable product

  Robert Stephens

  Marketing, Taxes, Products

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• When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Air, Shopping, Spontaneity

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• The program is only the excuse to get you to watch the advertising. Without the ads there would be no programs. Advertising is the true content of television and if it does not remain so, then advertisers will cease to support the medium, and television will cease to exist as the popular entertainment it presently is.

  Jerry Mander

  Popular Entertainment, Support, Doe

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• The power of publicity is more important than advertising.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Important, Publicity

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• The most effective way to build a brand is not by spending millions in advertising, but by finding a clever way to keep your name in the press.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Clever, Names, Way

  FaceBook post by Barbara Corcoran from Sep 25, 2014

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• Truth isn't beauty. It isn't even always true. Truth is nothing more than consistency of message.
  I learned that from advertising.

  Josh Kilmer-Purcell

  Consistency, Messages, Truth Is

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• I photograph only something that has to do with me, and I never did anything that I did not want to do. I do not do editorial and I never do advertising. No, my freedom is something I do not give away easily.

  Josef Koudelka

  Photography, Giving, Want

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• You can buy attention (advertising). You can beg for attention from the media (PR). You can bug people one at a time to get attention (sales). Or you can earn attention by creating something interesting and valuable and then publishing it online for free.

  David Meerman Scott

  Business, Media, Creating

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• Capitalism brainwashes us through advertising and the skewing of priorities .... We need economies that promote human values, seek to limit suffering, and are committed to democratic principles, rather than ones dependent on global trade and a blind commitment to neo-liberal economic policies.

  Sulak Sivaraksa

  Commitment, Priorities, Suffering

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• I decided to go to school for advertising and graphic design. That was what I was gonna do but acting is that thing, its like a splinter in your mind and you cant get rid of it. So I decided to move to L.A. a few years ago and it just snowballed into this thing called The Hunger Games.

  Dayo Okeniyi

  Moving, School, Years

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• The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Freedom Of Speech, Brain, Mind

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• The future success of online social networking sites as an advertising medium depends on its acceptance as an advertising vehicle that can deliver a message to a micro-target in a manner that will be well received and that increases the likelihood of interaction.

  Mary Louise Kelly

  Business, Acceptance, Networking

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• With the strong global appeal of the Playboy brand and the differentiated content offered, we have built a men's destination site with multiple revenue streams, including e-commerce, advertising, subscription and pay-per-view, ... In addition, our recent acquisition of the Spice brand gives us an opportunity to create a separate site, cross-promoted with the Spice TV network.

  Christie Hefner

  Strong, Opportunity, Men

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• Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed.

  Gillian Flynn

  Thinking, Marketing, Tampons

  Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.266, Broadway Books

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• I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.

  Gary Numan

  Song, Writing, Successful

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• I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Has Beens, Ifs

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• If you make a product good enough... the public will make a path to your door, says the philosopher. But if you want the public in sufficient numbers, you would better construct a highway. Advertising is that highway.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Doors, Numbers, Want

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• In this country there is a universal third person, the man we all want to be. Advertising has discovered this man. It uses him to express the possibilities open to the consumer. To consume in America is not to buy; it is to dream. Advertising is the suggestion that the dream of entering the third person singular might possibly be fulfilled.

  Don DeLillo

  Dream, Country, Men

  Don DeLillo (1989). “Americana”, p.189, Penguin

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• Morale is faith in the man at the top.

  Albert Sidney Johnston

  Men, He Man, Morale

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