Brands Quotes - Page 37

• We'll continue to see more and more brands integrate social causes, charitable components and environmental issues as underlying themes to their campaigns and messaging. Humans connect with humans after all, and brands are using this as a point of connection to engage with their audience, especially charity-minded Generation Y.

  Amy Jo Martin

  Issues, Environmental, Causes

  "What’s Around the Social Media Corner for Brands in 2013" by Amy Jo Martin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 24, 2013.

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• Being creative and playing with your content during the holidays is a great idea. But straying too far from your fundamental brand (from address, logo, etc.) can be a dangerous game. Your recipients need to be able to recognize you during this busy time of year.

  Paul Ford

  Holiday, Years, Games

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• Lay down the axe; fling by the spade;
  Leave in its track the toiling plough;
  The rifle and the bayonet-blade
  For arms like yours were fitter now;
  And let the hands that ply the pen
  Quit the light task, and learn to wield
  The horseman's crooked brand, and rein
  The charger on the battle-field.

  William C. Bryant

  War, Light, Hands

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• The incidence of violent brand-loyalty to one's own current dogma has risen.

  Marge Piercy

  Loyalty, Party, Political

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• Writers brought up in Africa have many advantages - being at the center of a modern battlefield; part of a society in rapid, dramatic change. But in a long run it can also be a handicap: to wake up every morning with one's eyes on a fresh evidence of inhumanity; to be reminded twenty times a day of injustice, and always the same brand of it, can be limiting.

  Doris Lessing

  Running, Morning, Eye

  Doris Lessing (2012). “This Was the Old Chief’s Country: Collected African Stories Volume One”, p.6, HarperCollins UK

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• When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

  Steve Jobs

  Typewriters, Years, Stanford University

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• the fastest-growing brand of religion is of the magical 'name it and claim it' variety, in which the deity exists only to meet one's immediate, self-identified needs.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Self, Names, Needs

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2008). “Going to Extremes: Notes from a Divided Nation”, Granta Books (UK)

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• Having a great deal of opportunity proves nothing. Opportunity without creative action is like a brand new Ferrari without an engine. You possess something valuable, but it won't get you anywhere.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Opportunity, Creative, Ferrari

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• I like to go on stage with a variety, with some stuff that's been around for a handful of years, some stuff from the last year, some stuff is from last week, and some stuff is brand spanking new. Those are the moments that excite me - when I'm coming up to a brand new bit. The more virgin the snow, the more fun it is to run on.

  Brian Regan

  Running, Fun, Years

  Source: www.charlestoncitypaper.com

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• Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have these brands, and we line our shelves with them. There's an inherent irony.

  Aaron Belz

  Fall, Thinking, Hair

  "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

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• It is curious that while one's education is the part of one's life over the conditions of which one has least individual control, the results of it are held to brand one irrevocably.

  Celia Green

  Individual, Curious, Results

  Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton

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• When we're impatient with beginners around us, we would do well to sign up for a class in scuba diving, ballroom dancing or anything else totally brand-new for us.

  Susan Collins

  Class, Dancing, Beginners

  Susan Collins (1996). “Our Children Are Watching: Ten Skills for Leading the Next Generation to Success”, Barrytown/ Station Hill Press

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• [Economists' advice] is something like patent medicine - people know it is largely manufactured by quacks and that a good percentage of the time it won't work, but they continue to buy the brand whose flavor they like.

  Barbara Bergmann

  Medicine, People, Advice

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• Buy products of genuine lasting value from brands that take their manufacturing seriously. I have things that are 75 years old, like the dinner suit of my grandfather's that was made in 1933 by a tailor in Edinburgh. Clothes develop stories. You can remember where you've been through clothing that you've worn. I want products that are going to endure. I hate that we buy things that are disposable. We need to buy products with integrity.

  Patrick Grant

  Hate, Integrity, Years

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• The brands with which we surround ourselves prop us up, make us feel sexy and beautiful, when in reality we're pretty dumpy creatures.

  Aaron Belz

  Beautiful, Sexy, Reality

  "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

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• The brand is lying about something, or at least misrepresenting it. When I read a bottle of shampoo or moisturizer or other beauty product, I always perceive a dark subtext. The words haunt me. It comes across as humorous to the reader/audience, but in fact the words really do make me a little bit queasy. Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have these brands, and we line our shelves with them. There's an inherent irony.

  Aaron Belz

  Lying, Fall, Humorous

  "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

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• Stand-up is not just an American thing anymore. It's global. In some places, stand-up comedy is brand new. South Africa has only had a scene for 15 years.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Years, Comedy, Scene

  "Interview: Comedian Gabriel Iglesias For 'The Fluffy Movie'". Interview with Patrick McD, www.hollywoodchicago.com. July 24, 2014.

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• We want to keep extending our brand into different places, into movies and soundtracks and our music will live on through licensing and our brand lives on through merchandise and new generations will get to wear our clothing and our T-shirts and stuff that's associated with us.

  Nikki Sixx

  Different, Generations, Want

  Source: forbassplayersonly.com

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• There are a million really good cigars, you gotta really float around cigars. It's not like being locked into a brand of cigarettes; at least to me it's not.

  Ron White

  Cigar, Locked, Floats

  Source: easterncarolinastyle.com

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• Somebody that comes and dumps a brand-new album on me and doesn't play the old stuff, I'm pissed!

  Garth Brooks

  Play, Albums, Stuff

  "Garth Brooks interview: The country icon on Nashville, GhostTunes and his Portland shows". Interview with David Greenwald, www.oregonlive.com. March 6, 2015.

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• It's good to have a brand that is consistent that people know about and trust. But it's also good to mix it up and adapt it, to polish it a bit and give it a new aspect. To not violate the reputation you've established but give it a new edge and veneer to show other aspects that people hadn't suspected.

  Robert Greene

  People, Giving, Reputation

  Source: www.josephbushnell.com

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• The Greeks used to use the same stories, the same mythology, time after time, different authors. There was no premium placed upon an original story, and indeed, Shakespeare likewise. A lot of people wrote plays about great kings. They didn't expect a brand-new story. It was what that new author made of the old story. It is probably the same now. We disguise it by inventing what seem to be new stories, but they're basically the same story anyway.

  Arthur Miller

  Kings, Play, People

  Interview with William R. Ferris, www.neh.gov. March/April 2001.

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• Every brand of religion maintains, and is, a permanent mechanism for transmitting ideas and values - whether one regards those values as admirable or ridiculous. Secularist organizations, with their generally looser, nonhierarchical structures, lack the power to hand down and disseminate their heritage in such a systematic way.

  Susan Jacoby

  Hands, Organization, Ideas

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• I think what I love most about Oprah's brand that I would love to do with the Eva Longoria brand is she has purpose with her brand. Everything she does means something.

  Eva Longoria

  Mean, Thinking, Doe

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", www.cnn.com. April 10, 2011.

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• Determine who you are and what your brand is, and what youre not. The rest of it is just a lot of noise.

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  Noise, Determine, Who You Are

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