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Fred Allen

"An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission."

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"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better."

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

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

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

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"You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern."

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"Advertising is legalized lying."

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"Religious advertising is undergoing a dramatic conversion."

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"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."

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"The future of advertising is the Internet."

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"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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