Fairfax M Cone Quotes

#1. A desirable advertisement will be reasonable, but never dull ... original, but never self-conscious ... imaginative, but never misleading.

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#2. The only gambling tip which amounts to anything is to keep out of the game.

E.W. Howe

#3. Anger has a way of returning.

Junot Diaz

#4. Make haste Jane added, just because she always wanted to say that.

Shannon Hale

#5. The inventory goes down the elevator every night.

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#6. Dollars add up, collecting friends on Facebook... not so much. Do I know you?

Jevon Scott

#7. Legends are not born - they are created.

Ricky Pierce

#8. Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.

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#9. Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.

Horace

#10. When people start to write articles about what might be wrong with the 'Today' show you know where you should point the finger, point it at me because I have been there the longest. And it's my responsibility.

Matt Lauer

#11. I'm most in my element on tour, with a gig that day, like today. I'm on the road where I am supposed to be. I will be where I'm supposed to be at nighttime, on stage, in front of people, doing my thing.

Henry Rollins

#12. If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.

Maynard James Keenan

#13. There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising is written always from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone.

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#14. Somebody finally has to get out an ad, often after hours. Somebody has to stare at a blank piece of paper. Probably nothing was ever more bleak. This is probably the very height of lonesomeness. He is one person and he is alone

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#15. Well I know I am ugly and cannot be loved -

Pearl S. Buck

#16. Anyone who cannot bear to lay hold of God as he comes down to him will still less soar up to him beyond the clouds.

John Calvin

#17. I try to think about me, as an audience member, and it [inspiration for movies] comes from there.

Alexandre Aja

#18. It is a catalyst for suicide and untold other acts of selfishness and stupidity. I cannot think of a more poisonous emotion.

Kevin Hearne

#19. The delightful study of the Psalms has yielded me boundless profit and ever-growing pleasure; common gratitude constrains me to communicate to others a portion of the benefit, with the prayer that it may induce them to search further for themselves.

Charles Spurgeon

#20. Write to one person, not a million.

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