Gimmicks Quotes - Page 2

• Design must be functional and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics, without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

  Ferdinand Porsche

  Design, Aesthetics, Visuals

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• The world is nothing but a big gimmick.

  Jimi Hendrix

  World, Bigs

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• I don't really have a gimmick or a 'thing.' I'm one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.

  Drake

  Life, Artist, Rapper

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• Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? It’s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? It’s the gimmick of money.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Numbers, Giving, Negative

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• People who are qualified are symphonic orchestra players and jazz musicians; they're qualified to do what they do. Rock stars are lucky. It's a combination of right time, right place and having certain genes or a gimmick or whatever, but it's really not anything more than sugar. It tastes good and goes away fast.

  Gene Simmons

  Stars, Player, Rocks

  Source: www.noise11.com

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• As President, I'll invest in renewable energies like wind power, solar power, and the next generation of homegrown biofuels. That's how America is going to free itself from our dependence on foreign oil – not through short-term gimmicks, but through a real, long-term commitment to transform our energy sector.

  Barack Obama

  Real, Commitment, Oil

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• Everyone has to suffer the gimmicks and other stunts and machinations when they're starting out - only at the time, it doesn't feel like suffering; it's fun and different then. But a little fame goes a long way, and then one tries to cast off part of the heavy burden - a burden one can never totally escape.

  George Harrison

  Fun, Long, Suffering

  Source: friarparksoulclub.tumblr.com

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• Make your copy straightforward to read, understand and use. Use easy words; those that are used for everyday speech. Use phrases that are not too imprecise and very understandable. Do not be too stuffy; remove pompous words and substitute them with plain words. Minimize complicated gimmicks and constructions. If you can't give the data directly and briefly, you must consider writing the copy again.

  Jay Abraham

  Writing, Data, Giving

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• Obama has demonstrated no desire to make tough choices. Americans demand a more efficient, effective government, but his budget calls for more taxes and more spending. It employs deceptive accounting gimmicks but does nothing to tackle long-term entitlement problems, nothing to save Medicare or fix Social Security.

  Reince Priebus

  Government, Long, Choices

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• It might work in the short term, but it's not going to keep the people who hop from congregation to congregation. Church is about one's relationship with God and one's relationship with people. The gimmick may attract you for the moment, but it's the substance that will hold you there.

  J. Gordon Melton

  God, People, Church

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• I feel like the high-concept shows that have some kind of gimmick tend not to be the hit classic shows of all time.

  Mindy Kaling

  Classic, Kind, All Time

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• A so-called 'blackout' is yet another gimmick, albeit a dangerous one, designed to punish elected and administration officials who are working diligently to protect American jobs from foreign criminals.

  Christopher Dodd

  Jobs, Criminals, Administration

  "MPAA Chairman Chris Dodd Speaks Out Against 'Blackout' Protest of SOPA and PIPA" by Alex Ben Block, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 17, 2012.

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• If a government resorts to inflation, that is, creates money in order to cover its budget deficits or expands credit in order to stimulate business, then no power on earth, no gimmick, device, trick or even indexation can prevent its economic consequences.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Government, Order, Credit

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• I think, honestly, that the word 'indie' is a false gimmick. 'Independent' used to mean a movie that was financed outside corporate Hollywood, but a lot of what gets called independent these days is totally produced within that system. And there's nothing wrong with that.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Mean, Independent, Thinking

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• I hate the things they preach. They found a gimmick that sells. The fact that they're making money off all these teenage kids who actually believe in their message is disgusting.

  Christina Ricci

  Teenage, Hate, Believe

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

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• I like to think I keep my mind open. When I walk the streets I don't look for anything in particular. I come from a philosophy that believes you shouldn't have preconceived notions - that you don't need a gimmick. That you should just photograph what you react to - what you see.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Photography, Philosophy, Believe

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• I spent my life - all my life - learning to wrestle. It's the only means of livelihood I've ever had and, uh, the only gimmick that I have in wrestling is wrestling.

  Lou Thesz

  Mean, Wrestling, Life Learning

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• And what I'm telling you now is not for you to go out and try the same ways I try, or not to even try my technique. Just put it to your personality, put it to yourself, and you develop your workout. Cause those books and things, those are other people's gimmicks and hypes. Build your own gimmick and hype, and that'll make you a better powerlifter. Not just doin' it like James does it, cause if you try to fly off the building like superman you'll be out there in the middle of the street.

  Big James Henderson

  Workout, Book, Hype

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• You have a lot of educating to do hip-hop wise in Europe. When you tour, when you go out there, most of the people that come see you at the venue listen to a lot of different kinds of music, not only hip-hop; they're not heads. From time to time you're going to do a little concert in front of three or four hundred people that are only hip-hop heads and they're going to understand and know all about the gimmicks and the swagger but the rest of the people are just regular European people that listen to pop [or] rock & roll.

  K-Maro

  Wise, Rocks, Europe

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• If the culture you have is radically different from an 'experiment and take-risk' culture, then you have a big change you going to have to make - and no little gimmicks are going to do it for you.

  John P. Kotter

  Risk, Different, Culture

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• I just happen to comprehend the low standards of the majority of the music-buying public, and I don’t care how condescending that sounds, it’s true. They always go for the shiny gimmicks. Always.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Majority, Sound, Care

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.113, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• The biggest and most interesting crisis in the world is the human crisis, and it never gets boring. It goes back to Shakespeare. You don't need a gimmick; it's just man against man and their intolerance of each other.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Men, Interesting, Needs

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• Stories are not about ideas, gimmicks, or places. Stories are about people. People are about feelings!

  Barry B. Longyear

  Ideas, People, Feelings

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• Everybody is designing magic iPhone apps that do things that are really, really beautiful, but a really important thing about magic is that the gimmick has to be ugly.

  Penn Jillette

  Beautiful, Iphone, Design

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

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• There's a lot of gimmick infringement out there, but that's cool. It's a compliment. But it all started right when I first came into the Garden. I came down to Eye of the Tiger and when I hit the ring with the Sheik, I just put my hand up to my ear by accident, and the crowd got louder. I was like "Oh, that works."

  Hulk Hogan

  Eye, Garden, Hands

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. July 1, 2005.

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