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"You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X."
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"I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second."
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"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket."
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"In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide."
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"Religious advertising is undergoing a dramatic conversion."
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"The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself."
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"Too many ads that try not to go over the reader's head end up beneath his notice."
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"It used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed, but today he goes in the advertising game."
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"News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising."
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"I have learned that you can't have good advertising without a good client, that you can't keep a good client without good advertising, and no client will ever buy better advertising than he understands or has an appetite for."
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"When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated."
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"I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark."
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"Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten."
Marriage
"If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd have to bring out the tanks to control you."
Control
"I wouldn't mind paying taxes - if I knew they were going to a friendly country."
Country
"When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship."
Army
"Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss."
Delight
"In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport."
Chicago
"If it wasn't for Abe Lincoln, I'd still be on the open market."
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"Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine."
Being
"We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class."
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