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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. -- Marshall McLuhan
Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make. -- William Bernbach
And let's be clear: It's not enough just to limit ads for foods that aren't healthy. It's also going to be critical to increase marketing for foods that are healthy. -- Michelle Obama
Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities. -- Marshall McLuhan
I love milk so much! I make a point of drinking a glass of milk every day. So now anyone who did those milk ads with the milk mustaches, they're my heroes. -- Natalie Portman
The ads all call me fearless, but that's just publicity. Anyone who thinks I'm not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am. -- Jackie Chan
I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive. -- David Ogilvy
Ads shouldn't be in people's way. -- Chris Hughes
Ads need to be little pieces of entertainment. -- William Shatner
Writing good ads is easy when you have something to say. -- Roy H. Williams
There's a reason people run negative ads... it's because they work. -- Anne Northup
I never liked filming the ads, but they were so well received. -- Frank Perdue
Ads are carefully designed by the Madison Avenue frog-men of-the-mind for semiconscious exposure. -- Marshall McLuhan
Ads represent the main channel of intellectual and artistic effort in the modern world. -- Marshall McLuhan
Ads get a bad reputation sometimes because they're not useful. They're not relevant, or slow. -- Susan Wojcicki
Too many ads that try not to go over the reader's head end up beneath his notice. -- Leo Burnett
Ads sell a great deal more than products. They sell values, images, and concepts of success and worth. -- Brene Brown
Ads sell a great deal more than products. They sell values, images, and concepts of success and worth. -- Brene Brown
The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values. -- Michael Schudson
A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable. -- Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good ad. -- Leo Burnett
Ads featuring real women and real beauty are such a necessary component to offset the potentially dangerous programming out there for little girls. -- Rashida Jones
Ads push the principle of noise all the way to the plateau of persuasion. They are quite in accord with the procedures of brainwashing. -- Marshall McLuhan
Ads are planned and written with some utterly wrong conception. They are written to please their seller. The interest of the buyer is forgotten -- Claude C. Hopkins
Ads are baked into content like chocolate chips into a cookie. Except, it's actually more like raisins into a cookie because no one [expletive] wants them there. -- John Oliver
Ads which ran 30-50 years ago, even a hundred years ago, are often better than those you see today. You'll get great ideas to use in your marketing. -- Ted Nicholas
What this means is that the first week of every new series of ads will continue to yield softer results than you can expect to see in weeks two and three. -- Roy H. Williams
Ads answered out of desperation in the New York Review of Books proved equally futile asâ?¦the 'Bay Area Bisexual' told me I didn't quite coincide with either of her desires. -- Woody Allen
The vast majority of Americans agree with us. We're doing everything that we can. We're advertising, right now we're on television with an advertisement running in the Washington area. We've got newspaper ads. -- Michael D. Barnes
Any ad consciously attended to is comical. Ads are not meant for conscious consumption. They are intended as subliminal pills for the subconsious in order to exercise an hypnotic spell, especially on sociologists. -- Marshall McLuhan
Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. It's just like a newspaper that publishes classified ads. -- David Boies
The oppressed always learned from and copied the oppressor. When the tables were turned, the stage was set for another round of revenge and violence -- roles reversed. And reversed and reversed ad nauseam. -- Frank Herbert
Ads and logos are our shared global culture and language, and people are insisting on the right to use that language, to reformulate it in the way that artists and writers always do with cultural material,. -- Naomi Klein
I also do not like the idea of soft money, these issue ads - people don't know where the money is coming from, millions and millions of dollars outside of the control of a candidate - there's no accountability. -- Scott McCallum
Half of Google's revenue comes from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results and are related to the topic of the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing its search technology to companies like Yahoo. -- Eric Schmidt
Its a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies. -- Iris Chang
Ads sell more than products. They sell values, they sell images. They sell concepts of love and sexuality, of success, and perhaps most important, of normalcy. To a great extent they tell us who we are and who we should be. -- Jean Kilbourne
Despite what anti-aging ads say, growing older can be better. I feel better in my skin, 100 percent. You have greater effects of gravity, but the better sense of yourself you have is something I wouldn't trade. Women who lie about their age - 'why?' -- Demi Moore
In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school. -- Jonathan Kozol
There should be a background check every time a firearm is transferred. You shouldn't be able to go to a gun show and buy guns without a background check. There are Internet gun sales, classified ads in the newspapers - and you can buy guns without background checks. -- Michael D. Barnes
Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury. -- John Oliver
No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they'll see tomorrow. -- Jan Koum
I was in Shanghai recently, where Twitter is blocked, and yet there were ads and billboards across town with hashtags on them. -- Dick Costolo
People don't understand the logistics of advertising. To have the ads purchased and run, you need to have a series of products that work together. -- Susan Wojcicki
A lot of consumers actively enjoy advertising, especially fashion print ads and clever TV commercials. The nostalgic cable channel TVLand features not only vintage shows but also vintage commercials. -- Virginia Postrel
I rarely listen to commercial radio, and when I do, I'm shocked by how many ads there are, and how annoying they are, and how bad the radio station usually is. -- Susan Orlean
I worked in ad sales. I would call up local businesses and try to get them to buy ads in the paper. The whole time, I felt like I was just scamming people. -- J. Cole
I showed what I can do with butter, right? Eighty-five percent increase in sales. I'm very proud of them Country Life ads. They were funny and clever and classy like the Toblerone ads I grew up with. -- John Lydon
It's a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies. -- Iris Chang
In the 1940s, cigarettes would be shown in classy situations, endorsed by celebrities - real A-list Hollywood stars in America - the ads would make claims about tobacco quality or manufacturing science and, bizarrely, some brands had what almost amounted to health claims. -- Peter York
When you don't have accountability, there's no limit to the things that people will say. One of the restraints on the vitriol and the filth that so often is part of the American political debate is that candidates have to stand by their ads. -- Sheldon Whitehouse
Here is what the practical impact of Citizens United means. What Citizens United means is that corporations call hundreds of millions of dollars into television ads, radio ads, and other forms of advertising to defeat those candidates who stand up and take them on. -- Bernie Sanders
Many billboards and magazine ads have resorted to showing isolated body parts rather than full-body portraits of models using or wearing products. This style of photography, known in the industry as abstract representation, allows the viewer to see himself in the advertisement, rather than the model. -- Douglas Rushkoff
Advertising isn't just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. At every company that sells ads, a significant portion of their engineering team spends their day tuning data mining, writing better code to collect all your personal data. -- Jan Koum
When 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' premiered on the WB Network in 1996, American culture was in trouble. Americans were bowling alone, pursuing individual interests to the detriment of the communal good. Business leaders were celebrating creativity and neglecting discipline. Nike's 'Just do it' ads were teaching young people to break the rules. -- Virginia Postrel
Americans born since World War II have grown up in a media-saturated environment. From childhood, we have developed a sort of advertising literacy, which combines appreciation for technique with skepticism about motives. We respond to ads with at least as much rhetorical intelligence as we apply to any other form of persuasion. -- Virginia Postrel
The Internet is all about accessing entertainment. Realistically, 50 to 80 percent of all traffic is people downloading stuff for free. If you can turn that huge market share into something that you can monetize, even if it is just with ads, you will end up making more money than with all other revenue streams combined. -- Kim Dotcom
The open web is full of spam, shady operators, and blatant falsehoods. Outside of a relatively small percentage of high quality sites, most of the web is chock full of popup ads and other interruptive come-ons. It's nearly impossible to find signal in that noise, and the web is in danger of being overrun by all that crap. -- John Battelle
Marketers use big data profiling to predict who is about to get pregnant, who is likely to buy a new car, and who is about to change sexual orientations. That's how they know what ads to send to whom. The NSA, meanwhile, wants to know who is likely to commit an act of terrorism - and for this, they need us. -- Douglas Rushkoff
I hate negative ads in general. -- Ed Rendell
My men's-underwear print ads are very popular! -- Calvin Klein
I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme -- Paul Muldoon
Consumers never complain about ads being too smart. -- Lee Clow
Traditional ads placed into digital just shout at the consumer -- Michael Reeves
Hey, what if those crop circles are just ads for Target? -- Dennis Miller
When people see political ads, they think someone's lying to them. -- Mark McKinnon
I don't watch television. And certainly not ads; I loathe advertising. -- John Hodgman
Other Republican candidates may retort to personal attacks and negative ads. -- George W. Bush
The party currently is about fund-raising and occasionally blasting out ads. -- Wes Boyd
As for editorial content, that's the stuff you separate the ads with. -- Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet
The algorithms that orchestrate our ads are starting to orchestrate our lives. -- Eli Pariser
I'm not a big fan of the high-altitude approach of mega TV ads. -- Foster Friess
Ten bajillion product ads notwithstanding, your looks are another thing that's basically genetic. -- Martha Beck
News is what people don't want you to print. Everything thing else is ads. -- William Randolph Hearst
I liked writing the negative ads more than - because it's more minor chords. -- Lin-Manuel Miranda
You can't reach America's youth with off the mark radio ads or insulting television commercials -- Steve Rifkind
We have reached a strange new place in marketing when tweets become full-page print ads, -- A. O. Scott
It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase. -- David Foster Wallace
Beneath this slab John Brown is stowed. He watched the ads, And not the road. -- Ogden Nash
...only drugs make you feel as good as people in TV ads appear to be. -- Hakim Bey
Keep your eye on your inner world and keep away from ads, idiots and movie stars. -- Dorothea Tanning
Dealing with ads is depressing. You don't make anyone's life better by making advertisements work better. -- Brian Acton
I've done many ads because that's my new career. It's an inspiring extension for my mind. -- Karl Lagerfeld
There is no evidence that super PACs have led to a greater percentage of negative ads. -- Bradley A. Smith
It's short-sighted to think ads won't one day end up wherever humans are - even the moon. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I like our ads. I like beautiful women eating burgers in bikinis. I think it's very American. -- Andrew Puzder
With all their attack ads, the President is just throwing away money...and he's pretty experienced at that. -- Paul Ryan
Infiniti ads are part of an exciting new trend called "Advertising Whose Sole Purpose Is to Irritate You." -- Dave Barry
Dealing with ads is depressing. You donâ??t make anyoneâ??s life better by making advertisements work better. -- Brian Acton
Publicists cater to bloggers because they can play them; bloggers cater to publicists because they want their ads. -- Stephen Rodrick
I want to make it clear to people that the idea of putting subliminable messages into ads is ridiculous. -- George W. Bush
Answering ads rarely works for career changers because you have no experience in the job for which you're applying. -- Marty Nemko
There are some people who only know me for cornflakes ads, and that's fine. I have a charmed life. -- Rob Brydon
That's how I taught myself how to draw - tracing the ads and petting new clothes on the models. -- Stephen Sprouse
The number of clicks on display ads is not an accurate predictor of the effectiveness of online display ads. -- Gian Fulgoni
Web media needs to move to TV metaphor - with full-screen imagery and other content interrupted with full-screen ads. -- Nick Denton
The strategy of Tumblr is very elegant.. The atomic unit of user experience is the same as the ads. -- Fred Wilson
Growing up I didn't have curvy role models, mainly because I didn't see enough curvy women represented in major ads. -- Ashley Graham
It's totally true: Ariel, Christopher Owens, me, and Courtney Love, all in Saint Laurent ads, all with the same haircut. -- Zachary Cole Smith
When you run ads saying you are going to save social security, my friend, that's all hat and no cattle. -- John McCain
The Administration's policy on women is often hard to see because it is written in the font size of pharmaceutical ads. -- Kate Clinton
More than 80% of our revenue comes from people viewing ads on mobile devices. Inside Twitter, we talk and think mobile first. -- Shailesh Rao
It's a matter of fact that Senator Obama has spent more money on negative ads than any political campaign in history. -- John McCain
We should all reevaluate advertising that contradicts what we know to be the truth; especially when the ads are harmfully manipulative. -- Christy Turlington
Thank heaven Election Day is over. No more campaign ads, no more mud-slinging, no more candidates pretending they're straight. It's over! -- Craig Ferguson
Facebook and Myspace are the U.S. audience, which is tried and true when it comes to being susceptible to ads. -- Max Levchin
No one wakes up excited to see more advertising, no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads theyll see tomorrow. -- Jan Koum
As we're bombarded daily with new ads for pills, diets and ab-doers, we have to protect our wallets and our time. -- Dan John
The real fact of the matter is that nobody reads ads. People read what interests them, and sometimes it's an ad. -- Howard Gossage
It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads. -- Andy Borowitz
I was able to work with two heads. If anything, doing ads and other commercial work were at least exercises in discipline. -- Garry Winogrand
I did what I think a lot of entrepreneurs do. I started putting up a lot of ads on Craigslist for interns. -- Blake Mycoskie
With the advent of wearable technology, companies will soon be able to better provide ads to customers based on their real-time activity. -- Robert Scoble
Every joke is either taken by ads or The Simpsons. It's all about being able to get your ideas out into the universe. -- Rich Fulcher
The election is in full-swing. Republicans have taken out round-the-clock ads promoting George Bush. Don't we already have that? It's called Fox News. -- Craig Kilborn
Two people could look at the same flowers and feel differently about them. Why not? I'm not making ads. I couldn't care less. -- Garry Winogrand
I always wanted to be a model, never an actress. I would see children in ads and stuff and wanted to be like them. -- Anushka Sharma
To make [parents] happy, I went to Fordham University for three weeks, while at the same time running ads in Variety, "magician-actor David Copperfield." -- David Copperfield
Remember that the headline and the appeals are ONE AND THE SAME. In successful ads, the appeal is almost always expressed in the headline. -- John Caples
No one`s dropped a cent - there`s no negative ads up against Donald Trump in Iowa which is crazy to think about. -- Chris Hayes

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