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"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."
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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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"The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real."

"What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world."

"Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence."

"Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things."

"Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors."

"The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin."

"At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves."

"If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity."

"The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence."

"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly."
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