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Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists. -- Cornel West
No tricks, gimmicks, special pills, special potions, special equipment. All it takes is desire and will. -- Richard Simmons
Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me. -- Alan Ladd
I'm not against screens, or new songs, or innovation. I just don't like the gimmicks. I want to know when worship is over that that leader's sole purpose was to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ. -- Charles R. Swindoll
Gimmicks come and go; the cop show seems one genre that will never leave - not as long as people like to sit at home in the suburbs and see what awful things go on in the cities. -- Tom Shales
Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions? -- J. C. Watts
I think a song that's got something to say. I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last. But I like a song that tells a story and has some meat to it, you know, that means something. -- Billy Eckstine
Awards are only a publicity gimmick. -- Tony Randall
I love visual gags and gimmicks; I love them. -- Sia Furler
People want gimmicks. They have to lose 10 pounds by 8:30 tonight. -- Bess Myerson
Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture. -- Method Man
Marilyn Manson is a criticism of gimmickry, while being itself a gimmick. -- Marilyn Manson
I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last. -- Billy Eckstine
Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with. -- Garth Brooks
God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there? -- Whitney Houston
I believe in keeping running simple and, in regard to shoes, that would mean no gimmicks, unnecessary cushioning, etc -- Bill Rodgers
I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don't even wear weird things. -- Lana Del Rey
I believe in keeping running simple and, in regard to shoes, that would mean no gimmicks, unnecessary cushioning, etc. -- Bill Rodgers
I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss. -- Tom Verlaine
Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained. -- Ferdinand Porsche
Every season we try to do something new. And not for gimmicks. We feel the show has to evolve and keep changing. -- Tom Colicchio
I don't really have a gimmick or a 'thing.' I'm one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day. -- Drake
It's not about knowing all the gimmicks and photo tricks. If you haven't got the eye, no program will give it to you. -- David Carson
There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money! -- Duke Ellington
All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background. -- Bobby Vinton
I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick. -- Hedy Lamarr
I don't like to have gimmicks. I don't like to have gadgets and stuff. I just like to go out there and entertain the fans by wrestling. -- Kurt Angle
No matter how skillful you are, you can't invent a product advantage that doesn't exist. And if you do, and it's just a gimmick, it's going to fall apart anyway. -- William Bernbach
Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression. -- Marshall McLuhan
We don't dance because we can't dance. Our shows, production-wise, are always quite minimal. We always try and keep it more about us having fun and stay away from gimmicks. -- Louis Tomlinson
Nothing is more hateful to me than photography coated with gimmicks, poses and false effects. Therefore let me speak the truth in all honesty about our age and the people of our age -- August Sander
If the culture you have is radically different from an 'experiment and take-risk' culture, then you have a big change you going to have to make - and no little gimmicks are going to do it for you. -- John P. Kotter
I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them. -- Iggy Azalea
Being up on something is a way of dismissing it. To espouse any point of view is a danger - it might leave us stuck with last year's cause. Prized for their novelty alone, ideas, gimmicks, trends become equivalent, interchangeable. -- Edmund White
If a government resorts to inflation, that is, creates money in order to cover its budget deficits or expands credit in order to stimulate business, then no power on earth, no gimmick, device, trick or even indexation can prevent its economic consequences. -- Henry Hazlitt
Sometimes, early in their careers, chefs make the mistake of adding one too many things to a plate to get attention. If a chef is just coming up with wiz-bang gimmicks on their plate, that has nothing to do with bringing real pleasure to people. -- Danny Meyer
Obama has demonstrated no desire to make tough choices. Americans demand a more efficient, effective government, but his budget calls for more taxes and more spending. It employs deceptive accounting gimmicks but does nothing to tackle long-term entitlement problems, nothing to save Medicare or fix Social Security. -- Reince Priebus
I want to show my range before I fall into any typecasting. I've turned down a lot of things trying to wait. But at the end of my career, whether that be tomorrow or 40 years from now, I would like to look back and be able to say, 'Ah, I never fell into any gimmicks.' -- Troy Garity
My direction has never really changed, because I don't think that you can really work gimmicks in gospel music. With gospel music, there is this central theme that always comes around about the love of God, the love of Jesus and the power that you have through Jesus Christ. You don't need a gimmick when you have that. -- Yolanda Adams
When it comes to animal agriculture, there is conventional, which is rally hideous, and 'compassionate' and 'certified humane' or whatever, which 'may' be 'slightly' less hideous. But it is all torture. It's all wrong. These 'happy' gimmicks are just designed to make the public feel better about exploiting animals. Don't buy the propaganda of 'happy' exploitation. Go vegan and promote veganism. -- Gary L. Francione
The public want honesty from their politicians.Not showy gimmicks. -- Theresa May
Stories are not about ideas, gimmicks, or places. Stories are about people. People are about feelings! -- Barry B. Longyear
The gospel of Christ has never needed the gimmicks of man to effect conversion in the soul -- Mark Dever
Design must be functional and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics, without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained. -- Ferdinand Porsche
Today's marketing success comes from self-publishing web content that people want to share. It's not about gimmicks. It's not about paying an agency to interrupt others. -- David Meerman Scott
Good writing has an aliveness that keeps the reader reading from one paragraph to the next, and it's not a question of gimmicks to "personalize" the author. -- William Zinsser
Power and profit structures're out of cahoots with current technology. Aware of new inventions, corporations put them aside, waiting for competitive reasons until they're obliged to use new gimmicks. -- John Cage
If you feel that you can follow a few little rules or some clever gimmicks to make you a mature Christian, then you have fallen into a subtle trap of legalism. -- J. Vernon McGee
As your heart goes, so goes your family! If your heart isn't right, no child raising system, rules, or gimmicks will ever work. As your heart goes, so goes your parenting! -- Jim George
I just happen to comprehend the low standards of the majority of the music-buying public, and I don't care how condescending that sounds, it's true. They always go for the shiny gimmicks. Always. -- Tiffanie DeBartolo
I'm not against screens, or new songs, or innovation. I just don't like the gimmicks. I want to know when worship is over that that leader's sole purpose was to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ." -- Charles R. Swindoll
[Psychics] use exactly the same gimmicks that we magicians do - the same physical methods, the same psychological methods - and they effectively and profoundly deceive millions of people around the earth, to their detriment. -- James Randi

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