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• Subliminal perception is a subject that virtually no one wants to believe exists, and -- if it does exist -- they much less believe that it has any practical application. . . . The techniques are in widespread use by media, advertising and public relations agencies, industrial and commercial corporations, and by the Federal government itself.

  Wilson Bryan Key

  Believe, Government, Media

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• Conservatism is constitutionally opposed to public reason, and this explains the abandon with which so many conservative pundits embrace flagrant simulations of reason, constructed through the methods of public relations, and exhibit so little regard for the real thing.

  Philip E. Agre

  Real, Littles, Libertarian

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• But the thought leaders on talk radio and Fox do more than shape opinion. Backed by their own wing of the book-publishing industry and supported by think tanks that increasingly function as public-relations agencies, conservatives have built a whole alternative knowledge system, with its own facts, its own history, its own laws of economics.

  David Frum

  Book, Thinking, Agency

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• [The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make ’em behave. Well, all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

  Harry S. Truman

  Liars, Kissing, Men

  Letter to his sister, 14 Nov. 1947, in Off the Record: the Private Papers of Harry S. Truman (1980) p. 119

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• We who preach the gospel must not think of ourselves as public relations agents sent to establish good will between Christ and the world. We must not imagine ourselves commissioned to make Christ acceptable to big business, the press, the world of sports or modern education. We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Sports, Thinking, Agents

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• I am going to sing lesbian love songs and support gay rights no matter what. The rest is public relations.

  Jasmine Guy

  Song, Gay, Rights

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• I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad writing, mental confusion.

  Stephen Spender

  Struggle, Writing, Confusion

  "Journals 1939-1983". Book by Stephen Spender, 1986.

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• I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea.

  Anthony Holden

  Mean, Hands, Ideas

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• The businessman only wants two things said about his company-what he pays his public relations people to say and what he pays his advertising people to say. He doesn't like anybody ever to look above, beyond or over that.

  Don Hewitt

  Two, People, Want

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• Home base is the support system where we have a culinary team, my own writers because of the shows and the books and stuff, we have a culinary team of about six people. Marketing, public relations, accounting and all that sort of stuff.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Team, Book, Home

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• Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.

  John Lahr

  Music, Science, Silence

  John Lahr (1970). “Up against the fourth wall: essays on modern theater”

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• John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations.

  Wally Schirra

  Thinking, Politics, Publicity

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• I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm.

  Bernard Hinault

  Agriculture, Directors, France

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• The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.

  Ben Elton

  Hippie, Thinking, Self

  Ben Elton (2008). “Stark: Satirical Thriller”, p.34, Random House

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• It doesn't look great if you cancel the reigning Best Comedy Program, you know, you're gonna take a hit from a... from sort of a public relations standpoint.

  Will Arnett

  Looks, Comedy, Program

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• Sometimes we pay too much attention in Washington to public relations, as opposed to the substance.

  Spencer Abraham

  Attention, Substance, Pay

  "Online Extra: Q&A with Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham". Interview with Laura Cohn, www.bloomberg.com. April 9, 2001.

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• The Oscar is the most valuable, but least expensive, item of world-wide public relations ever invented by any industry.

  Frank Capra

  World, Oscars, Valuable

  Frank Capra (1971). “The Name Above the Title: An Autobiography”

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• Part of what the food industry does with public relations, just like the chemical industry or the oil industry, is to try to erase their fingerprints from their messaging.

  Anna Lappe

  Oil, Trying, Doe

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• National pride is the culmination of a lifetime public relations campaign of psychological mind-control techniques.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Pride, Mind, Technique

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• Keep in mind, the news media are not independent; they are a sort of bulletin board and public relations firm for the ruling class-the people who run things. Those who decide what news you will or will not hear are paid by, and tolerated purely at the whim of, those who hold economic power. If the parent corporation doesn't want you to know something, it won't be on the news. Period. Or, at the very least, it will be slanted to suit them, and then rarely followed up.

  George Carlin

  Running, Independent, Media

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• If a journalist shows a facility for praise he's liable to be offered a job in public relations or advertising and the next thing you know he's got a big office, a huge salary and is living in a fine home with a lovely wife and swell kids - another career blown to hell.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Jobs, Home

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.41, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The Vatican has tried to condemn 'The Magdalene Sisters' as a pack of lies and that I've made it all up - I wish I was that good a dramatist - and in terms of public relations, that was the daftest thing they ever did.

  Peter Mullan

  Lying, Wish, Made

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• I think the number one public-relations blunder Osama has made is that he lives in a cave-fortress and if there's one thing we've learned from it's that you can't trust a guy who lives in a cave-fortress -- Lex Luther, Captain Nemo, Dr. Evil. I'm telling you the list goes on.

  David Letterman

  Thinking, Numbers, Evil

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• Putting Instagram into a different context is about rescuing it from the tyranny of now, taking it back from the muddy river that everyone is pouring things into. As a poet, as a thinker, as an artist, I believe there's another way to experience the world, and another way to experience time.It can't all just be public relations and branding; it's about making meaning with signs around you.

  Frances Stark

  Believe, Artist, Rivers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To overcome our biological limitations as individuals, we have co-evolved collective systems and capacities - cultural, social, economic, political, scientific, media, educational, public relations, etc. But the flaw in all that is that we have designed them primarily for comfort, profit, power, control, and entertainment rather than for collective intelligence, sanity, and wisdom.

  Tom Atlee

  Educational, Media, Political

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