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"When the New York Times scratches its head, get ready for total baldness as you tear out your hair."

"Pro-government press is not a press it is just a lie-generating ugly machine; it is a guard dog, guarding only the official thieves, not the public!"

"Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived."

"If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard."

"Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation."

"The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying."

"This is the truth about mainstream media and advertising: People wouldn't have to pay to show you such messages if they were right."

"If you're nice, decent, attractive, get good grades and are talented, no one wants to read about that...They want to read what's out-of-the-ordinary, the scandalous, the shocking and the tragic. They want a story; they want to be captivated and what's typical does not give them that...unless, of course, that person ends up a victim, commits a crime or loses their minds via a love affair."

"When the name of Gail Wynand became a threat in the publishing world, a group of newspaper owners took him aside-at a city charity affair which all had to attend-and reproached him for what they called hid debasement of the public taste."It is not my function" said Wynand, "to help people preserve a self-respect they haven't got. You give them what they profess to like in public, I give them what they really like. Honesty is the best policy, gentlemen, though not quite in the sense you were taught to belive"."
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"No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time."

"People who work crossword puzzles know that if they stop making progress, they should put the puzzle down for a while."

"Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant."

"Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school."

"I think change is possible, but only for individuals who were never truly gay in the first place and who have a strong personal motivation to recover their heterosexuality."
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