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"The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference."
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"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better."
"I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique."
"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising."
"Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything."
"Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario."
"Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity."
"Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy."
"I avoid clients for whom advertising is only a marginal factor in their marketing mix. They have an awkward tendency to raid their advertising appropriations whenever they need cash for other purposes."
"Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults."
"Is advertising a profession, like law or medicine? How many new parents clutch their baby to their breast and declare, 'I want this child to grow up to be a media planner'?"
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"A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized."
"I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is."
"Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs."
"I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars."
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