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• I didnt get arrested to show off my wild character. People say its a gimmick for all five of us to be different. Thats ridiculous.

  Donnie Wahlberg

  Character, People, Different

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• We had a wonderful time with this kind of grunge awareness, where suddenly rock was cool again. People wanted to head loud guitars. It was a great time, and I'm glad we were there. But the gimmick part has worn off.

  Billy Corgan

  Rocks, Guitar, People

  "Smashing Pumpkins: SPIN’s ‘Mellon Collie’ Cover Story, ‘Zero Worship’". Interview with Craig Marks, www.spin.com. October 23, 2015.

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• In terms of getting people to experiment more and take more risk, there are at least three things that immediately come to my mind. Number one, of course, is role-modeling it yourself. Number two is when people take intelligent, smart risks and yet it doesn't work out, not shooting them. And number three, being honest with yourself. 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

  Smart, Intelligent, Two

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• It is fear that makes you believe that you are living and that you will be dead.What we do not want is the fear to come to an end. That is why we have invented all these new minds, new sciences,new talks, therapies, choiceless awareness and various other gimmicks.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Fear, Believe, Mind

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• SixDegrees.org is about using the idea that we are all connected to accomplish something good. It is my hope that Six Degrees will soon be something more than a game or a gimmick. It will also be a force for good, by bringing a social conscience to social networking.

  Kevin Bacon

  Games, Ideas, Six

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• When the photographer Philippe Halsman said, 'Jump,' no one asked how high. People simply pushed off or leapt up to the extent that physical ability and personal decorum allowed. In that airborne instant Mr. Halsman clicked the shutter. He called his method jumpology.
  The idea of having people jump for the camera can seem like a gimmick, but it is telling that jumpology shares a few syllables with psychology. As Halsman, who died in 1979, said, 'When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping, and the mask falls, so that the real person appears.'

  Philippe Halsman

  Real, Fall, Ideas

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• [Psychics] use exactly the same gimmicks that we magicians do - the same physical methods, the same psychological methods - and they effectively and profoundly deceive millions of people around the earth, to their detriment.

  James Randi

  Motivation, Inspiration, Psychics

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• Most robotic vacuum cleaners don't see their environment, have little suction, and don't clean properly. They are gimmicks. We've been developing a unique 360 vision system that lets our robot see where it is, where it has been, and where it is yet to clean. Vision, combined with our high speed digital motor and cyclone technology, is the key to achieving a high performing robot vacuum - a genuine labor saving device.

  James Dyson

  Unique, Technology, Keys

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• I think of the medium as a people-to-people medium, not cameraman-to-people, not direction-to-people, not writers-to-people, but people-to-peopleYou can only involve an audience with people. You can't involve them with gimmicks, with sunsets, with hand-held cameras, zoom shots, or anything else. They couldn't care less about those things. But you give them something to worry about, some person they can worry about, and care about, and you've got them, you've got them involved.

  Frank Capra

  Sunset, Thinking, Hands

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• The gospel of Christ has never needed the gimmicks of man to effect conversion in the soul

  Mark Dever

  Men, Soul, Christ

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• Every season we try to do something new. And not for gimmicks. We feel the show has to evolve and keep changing.

  Tom Colicchio

  Trying, Something New, Evolve

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• Why is a movie starring women considered a gimmick and a movie starring men is just a normal movie?

  Paul Feig

  Men, Normal, Movie Star

  "Paul Feig explains his vision for a female-led 'Ghostbusters'". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.ew.com. October 8, 2014.

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• Theory and knowledge remain suspect, not because of inherent worthlessness, but because of their historic isolation from action. Without theoretical orientation, however, action is vulnerable to oversimplified and glib imitativeness-even mimicry-and to the use of the gimmick.

  Erving Polster

  Mimicry, Use, Action

  Erving Polster, Miriam Polster (1973). “Gestalt therapy integrated: contours of theory and practice”

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• These days, you have to have a gimmick to do the weather. You have to have an act.

  Willard Scott

  Weather, These Days

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• There is this tendency to think that if you could only find the magic way, then you could become a poet. "Tell me how to become a poet. Tell me what to do." . . . What makes you a poet is a gift for language, an ability to see into the heart of things, and an ability to deal with important unconscious material. When all these things come together, you're a poet. But there isn't one little gimmick that makes you a poet. There isn't any formula for it.

  Erica Jong

  Heart, Thinking, Magic

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• Students do not need to be labeled or measured any more than they are. They don't need more Federal funds, grants, and gimmicks. What they need from us is common sense, dedication, and bright, energetic teachers who believe that all children are achievers and who take personally the failure of any one child.

  Marva Collins

  Education, Teacher, Children

  Marva Collins (1990). “Marva Collins' Way”, Tarcher

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• I'm always surprised when anything about the band connects. But I love the fact that it's hard for people to understand. We've said before that it's always been a great thing to get certain people to go away thinking, 'Oh dear, she can't play the drums!' 'Fine, if you think it's all a gimmick, go away!' It weeds out people who wouldn't care anyway.

  Jack White

  Weed, Thinking, Play

  "What's eating Jack?". Interview with Andrew Perry, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2004.

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• Mitt Romney has a new fundraising gimmick. If you donate $3 or more to his campaign, your name will be entered into a drawing to win a dinner with Mitt Romney and Donald Trump. If you donate more than $10, you get to sit at a different table.

  Jay Leno

  Winning, Names, Drawing

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• Gas tax holiday is a classic Washington gimmick.

  Barack Obama

  Holiday, Classic, Taxes

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• The mass media causes sexual misdirection: It prompts us to need something deeper than what we want. This is why Woody Allen has made nebbish guys cool; he makes people assume there is something profound about having a relationship based on witty conversation and intellectual discourse. There isn't. It's just another gimmick, and it's no different than wanting to be with someone because they're thin or rich or the former lead singer of Whiskeytown.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Witty, Media, People

  Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.

  Iggy Pop

  Skins, Culture, Itching

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• Anytime you run a gimmick offence, you're a little bit afraid - you're not sound in what you're doing in your base stuff.

  Richard Sherman

  Running, Nfl, Sound

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• It is a common public relations gimmick to give the entire credit for the solution of famous problems to the one mathematician who is responsible for the last step.

  Gian-Carlo Rota

  Science, Giving, Lasts

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• I don't believe that Citizen Kane or Gone With the Wind, or any damn picture that you can name, would be better off in 3D. I think it's a gimmick. I find 3D distracting.

  William Friedkin

  Believe, Thinking, Wind

  "EXCLUSIVE: William Friedkin Says No to The Exorcist in 3D". Interview with B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. February 19, 2010.

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• Every technology that comes into filmmaking is first a gimmick. Think about sound with 'The Jazz Singer' or the first colour or surround sound - it takes a while for filmmakers to understand how to use it.

  John Lasseter

  Technology, Thinking, Surround Sound

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