Gimmicks Quotes - Page 4

• I'm 19 years old. I think I'm doing a pretty good job...Basically from my heart I really just want to say it really should be about to music. It should be about the craft that I'm making. This is not a gimmick and I'm an artist and I should be taken seriously.

  Justin Bieber

  Jobs, Taken, Heart

  "Justin Bieber booed at Billboard Music Awards before ranting in awkward speech" by James Robertson, www.mirror.co.uk. May 20, 2013.

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• I don't like 3D. I don't believe there is any film that I have seen and loved that would have been improved by a scintilla in 3D. To me, it's just a gimmick.

  William Friedkin

  Believe, Film, Has Beens

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Gimmicks come and go; the cop show seems one genre that will never leave - not as long as people like to sit at home in the suburbs and see what awful things go on in the cities.

  Tom Shales

  Home, Cities, Long

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• Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids) is a gimmick comedian who has devoted her short career to being obese and obnoxious with equal success.

  Rex Reed

  Careers, Comedian, Bridesmaids

  "Declined: In Identity Thief, Bateman’s Bankable Billing Can’t Lift This Flick out of the Red" by Rex Reed, observer.com. February 5, 2013.

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• I am a successful lecturer in physics for popular audiences. The real entertainment gimmick is the excitement, drama and mystery of the subject matter. People love to learn something, they are 'entertained' enormously by being allowed to understand a little bit of something they never understood before. One must have faith in the subject and in people's interest in it.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Drama, Real, Successful

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.301, Princeton University Press

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• The only trouble is that in the spiritual life there are no tricks and no shortcuts. Those who imagine that they can discover spiritual gimmicks and put them to work for themselves usually ignore God's will and his grace.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Grace

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• I think it[3D] should be used as a new artistic form, not as a gimmick, not to impress you but the existence of an environment that you view as a theatrical dramatic experience is - you don't just have the X-Y axis, you have the Z and that makes a difference. You still have the framing, you still use lenses, so most of the cinematic rules and languages still apply but I think it's a different existence.

  Ang Lee

  Thinking, Views, Differences

  "Ang Lee Talks LIFE OF PI, the Difficulty of Getting the Project Off the Ground, 3D as a New Artistic Form, Deleted Scenes and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. October 3, 2012.

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• The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a new gimmick, or a bunch of strong men, or an invasion of aliens, or the conquest of other planets, or the annihilation of half the world--in short, pretty nearly anything but the facing up to the integral and irredeemable nature of mankind--can bring about utopian situations. It is the old error of the externalization of evil.

  Brian Aldiss

  Strong, Men, Ideas

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• The public want honesty from their politicians. Not showy gimmicks.

  Theresa May

  Honesty, Want, Politician

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• The underlying strategy of the Fed is to tell people, "Do you want your money to lose value in the bank, or do you want to put it in the stock market?" They're trying to push money into the stock market, into hedge funds, to temporarily bid up prices. Then, all of a sudden, the Fed can raise interest rates, let the stock market prices collapse and the people will lose even more in the stock market than they would have by the negative interest rates in the bank. So it's a pro-Wall Street financial engineering gimmick.

  Michael Hudson

  Wall, Engineering, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• As your heart goes, so goes your family! If your heart isn't right, no child raising system, rules, or gimmicks will ever work. As your heart goes, so goes your parenting!

  Jim George

  Children, Heart, Our Family

  Jim George (2015). “A Man After God's Own Heart”, p.92, Harvest House Publishers

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• My own sense and taste in 3D films has been I don't really like it when it feels like it's a gimmick and it's coming at me, it's flying at me.

  James Mangold

  Flying, Taste, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• My direction has never really changed, because I don't think that you can really work gimmicks in gospel music. With gospel music, there is this central theme that always comes around about the love of God, the love of Jesus and the power that you have through Jesus Christ. You don't need a gimmick when you have that.

  Yolanda Adams

  Jesus, Thinking, Needs

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• I've never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I've wanted the music to do that.

  Taylor Swift

  People, Age, Use

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• The 2-D movie works as well as the 3-D movie. I want to make sure that people like the 2-D version. It's not a gimmick. It actually improves the viewing experience, but the movie stands on its own.

  Louis Leterrier

  People, Want, Wells

  Source: collider.com

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• I always wanted to make strangers and friends and family laugh. I was over ten years younger than my brothers. It was hard to get attention without some kind of gimmick, like athletic stardom or being funny.

  Gary Gulman

  Brother, Years, Strangers And Friends

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• What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without? We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble - all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure! So that we don't go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak. We can't stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.

  Agnes de Mille

  Believe, Thinking, Color

  Agnes De Mille (1980). “America dances”, Macmillan Pub Co

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• You know I don't have any gimmicks really. I don't have any silly things that I say; I don't know, I guess I'm just going to have a really hot dress and a nice pair of shoes and just go out there and look fabulous and try to sing my best.

  Katharine McPhee

  Nice, Silly, Shoes

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• The more monies we spend, the less children learn; because the more machines we have there, the more gadgets, the more gimmicks, the less children have to really think - the less they have to use their innate abilities, their curiosity, their brains.

  Marva Collins

  Children, Thinking, Brain

  Source: reason.com

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• The Orgasmic Death Gimmick is rather complicated. It could be called the whole birth-death cycle of action, persuading people that birth and death are realities.

  William S. Burroughs

  Reality, People, Action

  William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext

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• [Death is] a gimmick. It's the time-birth-death gimmick. Can't go on much longer, too many people are wising up.

  William S. Burroughs

  People, Goes On, Birth

  Source: realitystudio.org

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• So there's that, and then there's always things you can do with the tips. Except for this, what they call the arrow tips, they'll all be non-lethal cause again we're not trying kill anybody, just sort of take control of the situation. They'll probably throw in a lot of gimmicks with the tips and trick arrows, and things like that. And ya the new, cool.

  Jeremy Renner

  Arrows, Trying, Causes

  Source: screenrant.com

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• You may well ask how I expect to assert my privacy by resorting to the outrageous publicity of being one's actual self on paper. There's a possibility of it working if one chooses the terms, to wit: outshouting image-gimmick America through a quietly desperate search for self.

  Kate Millett

  America, Self, Paper

  Kate Millett (2000). “Flying”, p.83, University of Illinois Press

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• There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine yourself to even doing historical revisionist fiction, whatever you want to call it - mash-ups, gimmick lit, absurdist fiction - I don't know if I want to do that anymore.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Historical, Fiction, Stories

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• Night and day a picture of the showcase of the Lame Novelty Company and its gambling content would seem to appear before my eyes. Then I realized that I could not rest content and continue practising to become a magician until I knew what those gambling gimmicks in that showcase click.

  John Scarne

  Eye, Night, Gambling

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