Gimmicks Quotes

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  God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?

  Whitney Houston

  God, Voice, Singing

  "Whitney Houston: Return of the troubled diva" by Oliver Marre, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2009.

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• Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture.

  Method Man

  Rap, Hip Hop, Culture

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• No tricks, gimmicks, special pills, special potions, special equipment. All it takes is desire and will.

  Richard Simmons

  Special, Desire, Pills

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• I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last.

  Billy Eckstine

  Music, Lasts, Jazz

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• Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.

  Cornel West

  Clever, Yield, Self

  Twitter post from Jan 24, 2013

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• Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Unique, Media, Expression

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• You've seen one gimmick, you've seen them all.

  Terrell Suggs

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• No matter how skillful you are, you can't invent a product advantage that doesn't exist. And if you do, and it's just a gimmick, it's going to fall apart anyway.

  William Bernbach

  Fall, Matter, Advantage

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• When you're in business, if you have some sort of gimmick it's a huge advantage.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Advantage, Huge, Ifs

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• I love visual gags and gimmicks; I love them.

  Sia Furler

  Visuals, Gags

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Being up on something is a way of dismissing it. To espouse any point of view is a danger - it might leave us stuck with last year's cause. Prized for their novelty alone, ideas, gimmicks, trends become equivalent, interchangeable.

  Edmund White

  Views, Years, Ideas

  Edmund White (2014). “States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America”, p.260, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• Rule No. 1 is you can't be fake. If you're fake, you become a gimmick and you're selling a gimmick; a little gimmick is cool, this is entertainment. But when you base your stuff on mostly real stuff, you never run out of it because every day is a different adventure.

  Nas

  Running, Real, Adventure

  "Q&A: With 4 nods, rapper Nas aims for Grammy gold". Interview with Mesfin Fekadu, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. January 9, 2013.

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• Good writing has an aliveness that keeps the reader reading from one paragraph to the next, and it's not a question of gimmicks to "personalize" the author.

  William Zinsser

  Reading, Writing, Next

  William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• Awards are only a publicity gimmick.

  Tony Randall

  Awards, Publicity

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• I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Halloween, Voice, Crosby

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• I believe in keeping running simple and, in regard to shoes, that would mean no gimmicks, unnecessary cushioning, etc

  Bill Rodgers

  Running, Believe, Mean

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• Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.

  Alan Ladd

  Acting, Knows, I Can

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• All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background.

  Bobby Vinton

  Song, Voice, Surfing

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• I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss.

  Tom Verlaine

  Kissing, Media, Band

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• I think a song that's got something to say. I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last. But I like a song that tells a story and has some meat to it, you know, that means something.

  Billy Eckstine

  Song, Mean, Thinking

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• Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?

  J. C. Watts

  Believe, Government, Numbers

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• Marilyn Manson is a criticism of gimmickry, while being itself a gimmick.

  Marilyn Manson

  Criticism, Manson

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• I figured I needed a gimmick, so I dreamed up this drawl, the squint and a way of moving meant to suggest that I wasn’t looking for trouble but would just as soon throw a bottle at your head as not. I practiced in front of a mirror.

  John Wayne

  Moving, Mirrors, Bottles

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• But we don’t need more gimmicks and gadgets; all we need do is reimagine the way we travel. If we truly want to know the secret of soulful travel, we need to believe that there is something sacred waiting to be discovered in virtually every journey.

  Phil Cousineau

  Believe, Journey, Waiting

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• If you are going to be a big personality, you've got to have some kind of characteristic gimmick.

  Farley Mowat

  Character, Personality, Kind

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