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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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"I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second."

"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket."

"Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy."

"Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments."

"There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past."

"Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere."

"The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague."

"News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda."

"The network and local TV angle of broadcast television has received a black eye for not properly debating within the news issues that should be debated, instead of shuffling them of to television advertising."
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"An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match."

"Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything."
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