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Public Relations is the management of communication between an organization and its publics. -- James E. Grunig
The public relations warriors fought and lost Monte Carlo's Battle of the Magazine Covers. -- John Vinocur
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. -- Richard P. Feynman
My view is different. Public relations are a key component of any operation in this day of instant communications and rightly inquisitive citizens. -- Alvin Adams
What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good. -- Meg Whitman
I have boxes of pictures that nothing is ever going to happen to. Even Public Relations. I mean, I was going to events long before, and I still am. -- Garry Winogrand
The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed. -- Anita Loos
I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it. -- George Soros
Well, it was strange, because the phone rang and a teaching job turned up that sounded interesting. And I always did my own work. The Animals and a lot of Public Relations were done while I was doing commercial work. -- Garry Winogrand
I started in the industry in Public Relations, Quality Assurance, Information Systems and furniture moving. I tried my hand in design and havenâ??t looked back. Iâ??m fond of hackysack, racquetball, BBQ grilling, hanging out with my wife and friends -- Dan Miller
Brave' is one of those words that has been bleached of most of its meaning these days, thanks to far too many appearances in the glaring light of ad slogans and corporate public relations. I never thought about anything as brave anymore; it just seemed like a flabby, glib cliche. -- Susan Orlean
I work hard in social work, public relations, and raising the Grimaldi heirs. -- Grace Kelly
Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations. -- George Orwell
National pride is the culmination of a lifetime public relations campaign of psychological mind-control techniques. -- Bryant H. McGill
The Oscar is the most valuable, but least expensive, item of world-wide public relations ever invented by any industry. -- Frank Capra
The truth is not what we received today. Once again, we are being used as props in a Pentagon public relations exercise. -- Pat Tillman
Part of what the food industry does with public relations, just like the chemical industry or the oil industry, is to try to erase their fingerprints from their messaging. -- Anna Lappe
All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. -- Harry S. Truman
The fashion industry at large has been the worst public relations vehicle for larger women and petite women, they are both maligned and neglected. And I honestly do believe it's getting better. -- Tim Gunn
I know some actors feel classes are not cool or they create negative public relations, but I continue to crave the story just beyond my reach. To grasp that brass ring I need to continue to fine-tune my talents. -- Michael Welch
In the US, first of all, the electoral system has been almost totally shredded. For a long time it's been pretty much run by private concentrated spending but now it's over the top. Elections increasingly over the years have been [public relations] extravaganzas. -- Noam Chomsky
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The counsel on public relations is not an advertising man but he advocates for advertising where that is indicated. Very often he is called in by an advertising agency to supplement its work on behalf of a client. His work and that of the advertising agency do not conflict with or duplicate each other. -- Edward Bernays
When I came back to the United States, I decided that if you could use propaganda for war, you could certainly use it for peace. And "propaganda" got to be a bad word because of the Germans using it, so what I did was to try and find some other words so we found the words "public relations". -- Edward Bernays
I suspect in most companies, the public relations person is down at No. 20 in the pecking order. But here, he is fighting incredibly important battles. If a negative story starts running away with itself in the press and is not dealt with fast, it can badly damage the brand, and so we put enormous weight on our PR people. -- Richard Branson
I understood public relations and always maintained a high profile. -- Earl Butz
Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. -- Richard P. Feynman
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
Sometimes we pay too much attention in Washington to public relations, as opposed to the substance. -- Spencer Abraham
I am going to sing lesbian love songs and support gay rights no matter what. The rest is public relations. -- Jasmine Guy
I'm an officer in her Majesty's Royal New Zealand Navy. I'm a public relations officer in the Royal New Zealand Navy. Sounds good, doesn't it? -- Mark Hadlow
Public relations is at best promotion or manipulation, at worst evasion and outright deception. What it is never about is a free flow of information. -- Heather Brooke
The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the 'engineering of consent' by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays. -- Noam Chomsky
John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations. -- Wally Schirra
All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. -- Harry S. Truman
I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea. -- Anthony Holden
I am very surprised by someone like Alexander Wang. I am amazed how he is good with fashion, with business, with public relations himself, with an attitude in his clothes that is spoken immediately. -- Carine Roitfeld
In contemporary art culture, where good looks and clever strategic planning of art careers have become a feature, professional practice may be taught in art schools like a branch of public relations or political science. -- Michael Leunig
Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it. -- Brad Holland
Home base is the support system where we have a culinary team, my own writers because of the shows and the books and stuff, we have a culinary team of about six people. Marketing, public relations, accounting and all that sort of stuff. -- Emeril Lagasse
When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn't about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind. -- Brian Eno
When I go back to America, after a few days I am once again filled with this kind of angry alienation and disgust with this thing there that America has got - you have no idea how pervasive it is there. The public relations and propaganda put out by the corporate mono-culture there is so pervasive. -- Robert Crumb
In this digital age, there is no place to hide behind public relations people. This digital age requires leaders to be visible and authentic and to be able to communicate the decisions they've made and why they've made them, to be able to acknowledge when they've made a mistake and to move forward, to engage in the debate. -- Gail Kelly
I went to UCF in Florida in Orlando. I went for advertising and public relations. I moved out to California my senior year because I knew I wanted to be an actor, but I also wanted to finish school and get my degree. I took mainly a bunch of criminal justice courses online for the last year because that's all that they offered. -- Drew Seeley
Always maintain good relations with your public. -- L. Ron Hubbard
Republicans have never been good at public relations. -- Tammy Bruce
The formulation of a public relations strategy properly begins with listening, not talking. -- Leonard Saffir
Good policy always trumps bad public relations. And the best PR can't trump bad policy. -- Bob Schieffer
We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
There is far more to transitioning in the public eye than money, public relations, and logistics. -- Chelsea Manning
I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm. -- Bernard Hinault
Christ at the Checkpoint is primarily a public relations scheme to dissuade American evangelicals from pro-Israel views. -- Mark Tooley
If Stone Cold was to become champion, as of now, that would be a public-relations corporate nightmare. -- Vince McMahon
Real journalism is publishing something that somebody else does not want published - the rest is just public relations... -- George Orwell
The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth. -- Ben Elton
Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic. -- Noam Chomsky
The secret to a successful career in virtually any field is good public relations. Forget results. Forget the facts. Perception is all that matters. -- Jack McDevitt
Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence. -- John Lahr
I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad writing, mental confusion. -- Stephen Spender
My petite little platinum blonde beauty of a wife suddenly turned into a public-relations dynamo. "The business is Buzz!" she proclaimed, and indeed so it became. -- Buzz Aldrin
Vincent van Gogh's mother painted all of his best things. The famous mailed decapitated ear was a figment of the public relations firm engaged by Van Gogh's dealer. -- Roy Blount, Jr.
I've gotten more press than any entrepreneur could dream of - certainly more than I deserve - and I've never had a public relations firm working for me. -- Jason Calacanis
It doesn't look great if you cancel the reigning Best Comedy Program, you know, you're gonna take a hit from a... from sort of a public relations standpoint. -- Will Arnett
But for me, my personal relations, my personal family relations, are very important, and we've always tried to make sure that the public and the private are kept separate. -- David Miliband
In so many of the other beats these days, there are these layers of public relations people that you have to go through to get to the newsmakers themselves. -- Bob Schieffer
It is a common public relations gimmick to give the entire credit for the solution of famous problems to the one mathematician who is responsible for the last step. -- Gian-Carlo Rota
The vogue of the New Negro . . . had all of the character of a public relations promotion. The Negro had to be "sold" to the public in terms they could understand. -- Nathan Huggins
I was only in college, unfortunately, for, um, a year. I think my major was public relations, and I had no idea what it meant except it seemed maybe attainable. -- James L. Brooks
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Bear in mind that we [ with Edward Herman] did not devise the terms "manufacture of consent" and "engineering of consent." We borrowed them from leading figures in the media, public relations industry, and academic scholarship. -- Noam Chomsky

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