Magazines Quotes - Page 23

• I feel like the only person in the world who sees David Beckham modelling his swimming pants on the cover of Elle magazine and thinks - oh, how much better a handsome guy like you would look, David, without all those dumb ink stains stitched into your skin.

  Tony Parsons

  Swimming, Thinking, Guy

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• As a member of the Mormon church, Romney is instructed to tithe 10 percent of his income. That's in keeping with most charitable giving: Religious institutions get about one-third of all contributions, according to 'The American' magazine.

  John Podhoretz

  Religious, Giving, Church

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• The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.

  John Podhoretz

  Views, People, Intellectual

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• I do 280 episodes of TV a year, write 15 recipes for the magazine, and publish an annual book. With all of that, we try to get one weekend a month with Isaboo at our home in the Adirondacks to relax and recharge.

  Rachael Ray

  Book, Home, Writing

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• Clothing was something I always wanted to do. I've been pulling tear sheets from magazines since I was a little girl.

  Nicole Richie

  Girl, Tears, Littles

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• The world when I was 13 wasn't truly driven by tabloid magazines and social media and reality shows. I was able to have a little more of a private life.

  LeAnn Rimes

  Reality, Media, World

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• I don't read books. I like to read newspapers and magazines, but I've never learnt to enjoy books or novels.

  Kid Rock

  Book, Newspapers, Enjoy

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• On a scale of the United States, the Hollywood influence on what comes out, that's not the majority views of across the country. What we read in Us Weekly or People magazine, or Entertainment Tonight, it's not what the majority of the country is thinking.

  Kid Rock

  Country, Thinking, Views

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• Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.

  Richard Roeper

  Beauty, Beautiful, Art

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• There are a lot of magazines that are still sort of... that only cater to a certain demographic and only put certain people on their covers.

  Zoe Saldana

  People, Demographics, Certain

  "Zoe Saldana Covers Gotham Magazine, Talks Style Influences And Fashion Ancestry (Photo)". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 18, 2012.

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• The very paradigm of revolution, of right versus wrong, good versus bad, is a relic with no bearing on the present. Yet artists, exhibitions, and curators valorize the sixties. People who wrote about these artists 30 years ago still write about them in the same ways, often for the same magazines.

  Jerry Saltz

  Writing, Artist, Years

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• My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He was a scientist, an agronomist, but I thought of him as a writer because I'd seen him working at his desk. I just assumed that I was going to do that, that I was going to be a writer.

  Tom Wolfe

  Father, Thinking, Editors

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• Hip-hop is limiting itself and that also goes for editorially. Magazines and websites are the gatekeepers of what people think hip-hop is, but they actually end up limiting what hip-hop can be.

  will.i.am

  Thinking, People, Hip Hop

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

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• I was a huge fan of 'Mad' magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I'd scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I'd wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.

  Al Yankovic

  Years, Issues, Mad

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have an over-attachment to precision, which is why I've sold more magazines than any man alive.

  Felix Dennis

  Men, Alive, Precision

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• It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.

  Felix Dennis

  Sunset, Long, Ink

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• Publishing magazines for yourself is not good business, man.

  Felix Dennis

  Men, Good Business, Business Man

  "Beating the big boys at their own game" by Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2005.

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• I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.

  Felix Dennis

  Country, Reading, Population

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• 'The Week' is my favourite magazine. Everyone from presidents to CEOs of companies love it, politicians, people in the massive charity business in America, in the arts and even more especially in the media.

  Felix Dennis

  Art, Media, America

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• A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.

  Caitlin Moran

  Shoes, Majority, Ruined

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• Many billboards and magazine ads have resorted to showing isolated body parts rather than full-body portraits of models using or wearing products. This style of photography, known in the industry as abstract representation, allows the viewer to see himself in the advertisement, rather than the model.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Photography, Style, Portraits

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• We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra...

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Names, Guy, Poverty

  "Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• This is the sixty-nine," I told him, presenting the magazine in front of him. I put my fingers -- two of them -- on the action, so that he would not overlook it. "Why is it dubbed sixty-nine?" he asked, because he is a person hot on fire with curiosity. "It was invented in 1969. My friend Gregory knows a friend of the nephew of the inventor." "What did people do before 1969?" "Merely blowjobs and masticating box, but never in chorus.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Fire, Two, People

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you truly love film, I think the healthiest thing to do is not read books on the subject. I prefer the glossy film magazines with their big color photos and gossip columns, or the National Enquirer. Such vulgarity is healthy and safe.

  Werner Herzog

  Book, Thinking, Color

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

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• How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.

  Mark Twain

  Regret, Editors, Charity

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7132, Delphi Classics

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