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Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any. -- Jane Russell
Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life. -- Joseph Pulitzer
Publicity is absolutely critical. A good PR story is infinitely more effective than a front page ad. -- Richard Branson
Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity. -- Jeremy Bentham
Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman. -- Louis D. Brandeis
Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream. -- John Berger
Publicity can become invasive at times. -- LaVell Edwards
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. -- Abraham Lincoln
Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it. -- Joe Paterno
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Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases, -- Louis D. Brandeis
Publicity, discussion, and agitation are necessary to accomplish any work of lasting benefit. -- Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left. -- Patrick Kavanagh
Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend. -- Margaret Thatcher
Publicity gets more than a little tiring. You want it, you need it, you crave it, and you're scared as hell when it stops. -- Joseph Barbera
Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation -- Charles Evans Hughes
Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream -- John Berger
(...) The new nine muses, Commerce, Operatic Music, Amor, Publicity, Manufacture, Liberty of Specch, Plural Voting, Gastronomy, Private Hygiene, Seaside Concert Entertainments, Painless Obstetrics and Astronomy for the People. -- James Joyce
Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them. -- Lily Tomlin
The essence of government is concern for the widest possible public interest; the essence of the humanities, it seems to me, is private study, thought, and passion. Publicity is a essential to the one as privacy is to the other. -- John Updike
I felt like I wasn't doing justice to either side of my life. It wasn't pronounced. Publicity is an awkward thing to do. It is awkward to call people up all the time and ask them for things on a very basic level. -- Sloane Crosley
How dismal is progress without publicity. -- Theodore Dreiser
The price of justice is eternal publicity. -- Arnold Bennett
A boy has to peddle his book. -- Truman Capote
There is such a thing as bad publicity. -- Joyce Brothers
The power of publicity is more important than advertising. -- Barbara Corcoran
There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary. -- Brendan Behan
There's an old press-agents' slogan that's good advice: Don't read your publicity - weigh it. -- Kathleen Winsor
Any article's good. Long as it's publicity, I think that's all that matters. I think it's advancement for my career. -- Brian Wilson
Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. -- Lord Acton
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies. -- Henry Adams
Its the publicity function of Amnesty that I think has made its name so widely known, not only to readers in the world, but to governments - and thats what matters. -- Peter Benenson
I do need publicity but not for what I do for good. I need publicity for my book. I need publicity for my fights. I need publicity for my movie but not for helping people. Then it is no longer sincere. -- Muhammad Ali
We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name run in men's mouths, in what manner soever. It stemma that to be known is in some sort to have life and continuance in other men's keeping. -- Michel de Montaigne
Publicity is the only thing some people fear. An aroused public opinion has been the cause of most reforms. Telling the truth is perhaps the pacifist's only weapon. Over and over again, even the suggestion that one may publish the facts has changed a scornful, bullying opponent into an almost subservient helper. But how dangerous it is! -- Muriel Lester
What constitutes a good manager in this field? He must be knowledgeable in the art with which he is concerned, an impresario, labor negotiator, diplomat, educator, publicity and public relations expert, politician, skilled businessman, a social sophisticate, a servant of the community, a tireless leader - becomingly humble before authority - a teacher, a tyrant, and a continuing student of the arts. -- John D. Rockefeller
I couldn't sacrifice my heart for a publicity stunt. -- Kim Kardashian
I hate publicists and publicity. But I love the people. -- Tom Hardy
Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity. -- Cleo Moore
I could be a jerk and get a lot more publicity, but that's not who I am. -- Pete Sampras
I would never consent to a lame publicity stunt at a time when I already want to hide. -- Diablo Cody
The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour. -- Gloria Swanson
I've never liked the recognition, the questions, the publicity. I have often felt like running away and hiding. -- Al Pacino
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. -- Thomas Wolfe
Now, if there was one woman in the world who didn't need publicity, who always had too much publicity, it was me. -- Brigitte Bardot
I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I'm doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look. -- Marilyn Monroe
I thought, If people are going to write about what I'm wearing, then I would wear young British designers who need the publicity. -- Emma Watson
I'm not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity. -- Vivien Leigh
Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore! -- Larry Niven
The Jews were gassed. Armenians were killed in every conceivable way... So the Holocaust doesn't interest me, see? They've had a lot of publicity, but they didn't suffer as much. -- Jack Kevorkian
Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols. -- Gael Garcia Bernal
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
Many people you think are individual achievers in fact have either a strong spousal partner over many years or a business partner who's either in the background, not given enough publicity or less egocentric. -- Michael Eisner
I enjoyed having a reputation as being wild, but these days I try not to worry about what people think in the privacy of their own brain or what they write in the bizarre publicity of their own newspapers, because all of those things are meaningless. -- Russell Brand
It almost hurts me to walk down a road and have people grab my hand and ask for my autograph and not sit and talk. When I'm finished I'm not going to be on the front page, but I'm going to be just as happy without the publicity. -- Terry Fox
I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Other qualities may be more conducive to achievement, publicity, success; but they are all outworn - as outworn as ideologies, opinions, concepts and names for things. -- Gerhard Richter
You just have to sit down and write the next book. I mean, it's not all uncommon for a writer to get a ton of publicity for one book and then not get as much for the next one. I don't worry about that because I try to worry about the one single part of the job I can control: the writing of the book. -- Jeff Abbott
With publicity comes humiliation. -- Tama Janowitz
All publicity is good publicity. -- Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
All publicity works upon anxiety. -- John Berger
I don't stage my own publicity. -- Lauren Conrad
I don't crave publicity, you know. -- Jack Kevorkian
Awards are only a publicity gimmick. -- Tony Randall
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There's no bad publicity except an obituary. -- Brendan Behan
Squirrels are just rats with good publicity -- Garrison Wynn
Without publicity a terrible thing happens: nothing. -- P. T. Barnum
There's no such thing as bad publicity, -- P. T. Barnum
Some people call me a publicity hound. -- Joe Arpaio
Frankly, I'm getting a lot of great publicity. -- Ann Coulter
I don't like publicity, being in the limelight. -- Paul Ince
All publicity is good, except an obituary notice. -- Brendan Behan
The art of publicity is a black art. -- Learned Hand
Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity. -- Russell Baker
Archaeologists are underpaid publicity agents for deceased royalty. -- John Agar
Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt. -- Tony Randall
A fool and his money get a lot of publicity. -- Al Bernstein
I'm not that kind of publicity, attention-grabber type of artist. -- Jessica Simpson
Commencement addresses are usually garbage. They're for colleges seeking publicity. -- Greg Gutfeld
Life is a publicity stunt. A shill. You've been had. -- Kate Millett
To be honest, I am not happy about all the publicity. -- Jean Alesi
Shameless self-publicity works, of course: living your life as a soap opera. -- Chris Lowe
It doesn't worry me what anyone says, except when publicity hurts others. -- Terry Jones
I am basically very private, and I'm really nervous about doing publicity. -- Michelle Pfeiffer
I stay away from Speedos. That would cause me absolutely unnecessary publicity. -- Luke Evans
The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity. -- Bernard Crick
I don't particularly enjoy publicity, it seems to just follow me around. -- Jayne Mansfield
A flair for publicity does not necessarily mean a flair for acting. -- Katharine Cornell
It never really bothered me that I never got the same publicity. -- Marion Motley
News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity. -- Bill Moyers
the Jewish press in the USA is solely responsible for our poor publicity. -- Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity. -- Namie Amuro
I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that. -- Elvis Presley
All the publicity about value investing - it's become a very popular thing. -- Walter Schloss
If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity. -- David Duchovny
The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity. -- George Carlin
Writers say many true things about their own experiences with publicity and promotion. -- Teresa Nielsen Hayden
What someone doesn't want you to publish is journalism; all else is publicity. -- Paul Fussell
It can't hurt, publicity is publicity, controversy and all that, it's all good. -- Keith David
In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity. -- Lauren Bacall
Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good. -- Carl Andre
My parents meant well, but the road to Hell is paved with publicity stunts. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I got more publicity for not doing a festival than for doing the festival. -- George Wein
I made publicity contracts with Nike, several broadcasting companies and airline companies within Australia. -- Cathy Freeman
We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity. -- Will Rogers
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That's a huge subject - a writer refusing to do publicity but writing about publicity. -- Ann Goldstein
I know actors who court personal publicity because they believe no publicity is bad publicity. -- Kevin Whately
I am not into publicity. I'm not good at it. I get anxiety about it. -- Zach Galifianakis
I regret being the richest man in the world because that position attracts undeserved publicity. -- Bill Gates
Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue. -- Jeremy Bentham
Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion. -- Magic Johnson
The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The success of a terrorist operation depends almost entirely on the amount of publicity it receives. -- Walter Laqueur
Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are. -- Leif Garrett
Work hard. Believe in yourself. It's not the publicity that sells the clothes, it's the woman. -- Oscar de la Renta
Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I don't write my own publicity materials, I just read 'em and give 'em the OK. -- John Darnielle
I think they are looking for publicity and they are looking for a name for themselves. -- David Baltimore

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