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A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.


David Ogilvy
South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village - an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
Tom Peters
Tags: Any New Take
Many European guys go to the N.H.L. at a young age, even without knowing English. But they quickly adapt to new conditions, another game, a new country. They are also young, receptive, can move mountains.
Jaromir Jagr
Tags: Age Go Even
In the 'Nude Descending a Staircase,' I wanted to create a static image of movement: movement is an abstraction, a deduction articulated within the painting, without our knowing if a real person is or isn't descending an equally real staircase.
Marcel Duchamp
Tags: Our Person Wanted
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I've always liked Muir without knowing quite why.


Douglas Dunn
Just as producers often give consumers things they want but didn't think to ask for, consumers sometimes come up with surprising uses for new inventions. When a new product appears, it can uncover dissatisfactions and desires no one knew were there.
Virginia Postrel
Tags: Think Just Up
Americans worry that Afghanistan has become a petri dish in which the germs of Islamic fanaticism are replicating - soon Afghans will be hijacking American planes and bombing embassies everywhere. And their fears are not necessarily unfounded. The Taliban are unemployed war veterans, ready and even eager to return to the battlefield.
William T. Vollmann
Tags: War Will Which
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People always want cars. It's a huge industry, and there's always new product coming out.


Wayne Huizenga
Tags: People Out Always
Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it and you fill in the gaps. You discover it and you put the marks together and without you doing it they're just marks.
Samuel West
Tags: You Just Them
People can say whatever they want about you without knowing the facts. They can criticize you without even knowing you, and hate you when they don't even know you. All of a sudden, you're, like, the bin Laden of America. Osama bin Laden is the only one who knows exactly what I'm going through.
R. Kelly
Tags: You People Like
I was naive in that I thought I could just sing and perform and do what I had always wanted to do all my life. But I wasn't ready for all the added dramas that came along. There were times I fell out of love with music and thought about walking away. I thought I was happier when I was that girl at home in my bedroom singing into my hairbrush.
Rebecca Ferguson
Tags: Music Home About
Even though writing articles relies completely on truth, you still must tell an interesting story. You can't worry about people knowing who you are and whether or not they want to read your stories.
Kimberly Willis Holt
Tags: Truth You People
I don't think you can approach any piece of art with boundaries or rules. I think respect is a very important thing, but I also think what we discover along the way is really important.
Jake Gyllenhaal
Tags: Respect You Think
So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or knowing without the skills to transform their lives. But then, that's really the fate of many women today.
Olympia Dukakis
Tags: Women Who Out
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I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo.


Peter Steele
Tags: Like Always Very
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Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.


Katherine Mansfield
Tags: Without Once Read
I know how to set an irrigation tube, and I helped with the harvest. I learned the law of the harvest without even knowing I was learning it. On the farm, you learn early that you reap what you sow.
Sheri L. Dew
Tags: Learning You Know
Fashion is a tool... to compete in life outside the home. People like you better, without knowing why, because people always react well to a person they like the looks of.
Mary Quant
Tags: Home You People
If Marxist theory dictates that the personal is always political, the rebuttal of both 'The Americans' and 'House of Cards' is that the political is always personal: the sum total of our collective needs and desires, vows and betrayals.
Steve Erickson
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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.


Henri Frederic Amiel
Tags: Our Duty Useful