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• Direct, forceful, energetic. Loves power, eats up publicity and flattery... Can turn on charm at will and knows it.

  Joseph Stilwell

  Flattery, Power Of Love, Charm

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• Cricket is just something that I am good at, just like various people are good at various things. What's lucky is that cricket gets enormous publicity.

  Rahul Dravid

  People, Lucky, Cricket

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• I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity.

  Raf Simons

  Years, Shy, Bases

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• Many people you think are individual achievers in fact have either a strong spousal partner over many years or a business partner who's either in the background, not given enough publicity or less egocentric.

  Michael Eisner

  Strong, Thinking, Years

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• "Cynicism," like "heresy" and "heterodoxy" and "atheism" and "agnosticism" and "paganism" and "heathenism," is above all else a way for organized orthodoxy's caste of official censors to encyst and segregate and thus neutralize all contrarian forms of seeing and thinking, all (necessarily implicitly) prohibited and repressed ways of exercising disruptive and iconoclastic intuition and intellection (for to analyze and explain these things too openly is to give them publicity and potential cogency when the point is to asphyxiate them).

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Exercise, Thinking

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• I know there are rumours concerning my 'breakup' with Brody Jenner. The truth is, we were never really together. We hung out, and he's a nice guy, but my heart was never in it. Anything further is just a cry for publicity.

  Nicole Richie

  Breakup, Nice, Heart

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• The association of motorcycles with LSD is no accident of publicity. They are both a means to an end, to the place of definitions.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Mean, Motorcycle, Definitions

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.90, Pan Macmillan

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• You don't have a baby based on that publicity madness. People don't live like that. Especially black people who were raised in families with morals and standards and integrity.

  Whitney Houston

  Girl, Baby, Integrity

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• You have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what's happening round you, no matter what the hype or the publicity, you can still manage to make leaps in your work as an artist.

  Jimmy Smits

  Artist, Hype, Storm

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• I believe that a guarantee of public access to government information is indispensable in the long run for any democratic society.... if officials make public only what they want citizens to know, then publicity becomes a sham and accountability meaningless.

  Sissela Bok

  Running, Believe, Government

  Sissela Bok (2011). “Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation”, p.179, Vintage

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• Publicity gets more than a little tiring. You want it, you need it, you crave it, and you're scared as hell when it stops.

  Joseph Barbera

  Needs, Want, Littles

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

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• If the guidebook used to be critical, today it seems largely a celebratory adjunct to the publicity operations of hotels, resorts, and even countries.

  Paul Fussell

  Country, Today, Used

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• Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt ... we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're here to hold the radical line.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Lines, Peta

  "USA Today" Newspaper, September 3, 1991.

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• We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years......It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries.

  David Rockefeller

  New York, Grateful, Past

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• On the other hand, winning awards is cool. Aside from the warm fuzzy, it creates publicity, and that helps spread the word about the book. Plus, this award was a plaque of some sort. I could have used that for all sorts of things. Obviously it would be useful for decorating the barren walls of my house and intimidating my enemies, but that's just for starters.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Wall, Book, Winning

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• Each photograph is read as the private appearance of its referent: the age of Photography corresponds precisely to the explosion of the private into the public, or rather into the creation of a new social value, which is the publicity of the private: the private is consumes as such, publicly.

  Roland Barthes

  Photography, Social Values, Age

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• Get stuffed, don't you have more publicity stunts to pull?" Bones shot back. "How about chatting with another writer who can smear your name into greater popularity?" "What, did Anne Rice not return your calls, mate?" Vlad asked scathingly. "Jealousy is such an ugly trait.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Names, Ugly, Return

  Jeaniene Frost (2010). “At Grave's End: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.119, Hachette UK

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• I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get repeated publicity.

  Robert Winston

  Drs, Claims, Evidence

  "Human cloning claims condemned by leading scientists" by Sarah Boseley, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2009.

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• Both in Britain and America, huge publicity has been given to stem cells, particularly embryonic stem cells, and the potential they offer. Of course, the study of stem cells is one of the most exciting areas in biology, but I think it is unlikely that embryonic stem cells are likely to be useful in healthcare for a long time.

  Robert Winston

  Thinking, Cells, Britain And America

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• I thought, If people are going to write about what I'm wearing, then I would wear young British designers who need the publicity.

  Emma Watson

  Writing, People, Needs

  "Emma Watson Covers Vogue’s July Issue, Champions Young British Designers" by Hilary Moss, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2011.

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• The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour.

  Gloria Swanson

  Sunset, Euthanasia, Executives

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• Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Staff, Notoriety, Position

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.

  Camille Paglia

  Photography, Hollywood, Genius

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• If writers possess a common temperament, it's that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the recognition they crave.

  Gail Caldwell

  Suffering, Shy, Spotlight

  Gail Caldwell (2010). “Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship”, p.17, Random House

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• Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Joy, Secret

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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