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All Quotes Collection
"It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that are not critically attuned are aware of cynical manipulation in film."
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"I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one."
40
"A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well."
51
"An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service."
41
"As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves."
39
"Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know."
40
"Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be."
43
"We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place."
37
"I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early."
111
"Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion."
47
"Nothing is really real unless it happens on television."
44
"The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing.""
36
"We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it."
43
"We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman."
39
"The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event."
41
"The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises."
35
"The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century."
37
"The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness."
48
"Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge."
77
"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers."
39
"If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service to the defense of freedom, and you don't really grasp the concept of the sovereign individual human being."
31
"Wallow too much in sensitivity and you can't deal with life, or the truth."
26
"There is nothing quite so depressing as waking up to face a day when you know that you are going to have to deal with a government office or bureaucrat."
25
"The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not."
28
"The main purpose of Social Security is to redistribute wealth, to make an increasingly large number of Americans dependent on government for their basic needs in their retirement years."
23
"The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms."
28
"If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned it, to take their money by force for your own needs, then it is certainly just as wrong for you to demand that the government step forward and do this dirty work for you."
27
"How many Catholic schools do you think teach the students to question the authority of the Pope? Do you believe Christian schools teach students to question or challenge the authority of Jesus Christ? Do military schools teach the cadets to challenge the authority."
30
"Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection."
36
"A lot of people out there pay good lip service to the idea of personal freedom... right up to the point that someone tries to do something that they don't personally approve of."
31
"We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny."
27
"If we are to better the future we must disturb the present."
64
"Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!"
24
"The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice."
27
"We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown."
Will,
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