Publicity Quotes

• What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Leadership, Humility, Giving

  Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “Speaking of Abraham Lincoln”

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• Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

  Lily Tomlin

  Country, Honesty, Work

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• Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any.

  Jane Russell

  Terrible, Ifs

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

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• Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Light, Disease, Being The Best

  Other People's Money ch. 5 (1914) See RalphWaldo Emerson 42

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• Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Country, Public Opinion, Action

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• Publicity is absolutely critical. A good PR story is infinitely more effective than a front page ad.

  Richard Branson

  Communication, Stories, Pages

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• Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make.

  William Bernbach

  Running, Business, Numbers

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• There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.

  Brendan Behan

  Advertising Business, Public Relations, Obituary

  In Dominic Behan My Brother Brendan (1965) p. 158

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• The power of publicity is more important than advertising.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Important, Advertising

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• Squirrels are just rats with good publicity

  Garrison Wynn

  Squirrels, Rats

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• Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Justice, Soul, Spurs

  establishment in France. Collected in John Bowring (ed) Works (1838-43), vol.4.

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• Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Nature, Being The Best, Sunlight

  Other People's Money ch. 5 (1914) See RalphWaldo Emerson 42

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• I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Believe, Simple

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.227, Princeton University Press

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• Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Moral, Public Speaking, Force

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• You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Life, Success, Money

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

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• Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.

  John Berger

  Dream, Culture, Capitalism

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• With publicity comes humiliation.

  Tama Janowitz

  Humiliation

  1992 In the International Herald Tribune, 8 Sep.

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• Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Military, Oxygen, Hymns

  Speech to American Bar Association in London, 15 July 1985, in The Times 16 July 1985

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• Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.

  Lord Acton

  Reality, Justice, Political

  "Lord Acton and his Circle". Book by Abbot Gasquet, 1906.

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• Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.

  Russell Baker

  Live By, Dies

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• Without publicity there is no prosperity.

  Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich

  Prosperity

  Quoted by Tony Rothman in Bostonia, summer 1993, p.58.

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• Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Communication, Support, Decay

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• A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

  Al Bernstein

  Money, Stupid, Fool

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• We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name run in men's mouths, in what manner soever. It stemma that to be known is in some sort to have life and continuance in other men's keeping.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Running, Men, Names

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• You can't shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Acceptance, Shame, Modern

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The Enemies List”, p.5, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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