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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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"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better."
"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."
"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket."
"You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern."
"Religious advertising is undergoing a dramatic conversion."
"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 future of advertising is the Internet."
"That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in."
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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."
"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."
"In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country."
"And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede."
"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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"When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship."
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