Brooks Stevens famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence...we make good products, we induce people to buy them, and then the next year we deliberately introduce something that will make these products old-fashioned, out of date, obsolete.
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Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence, and anyone who can read without moving his lips should know it by now.
-- Brooks Stevens -
Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.
-- Brooks Stevens
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Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.
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If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.
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A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.
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I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
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The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.
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Within 2 years Im predicting...that youre going to see a suitcase nuke in this country. Youre probably going to see a release in a few years of something communicable. & I am predicting that you will see a lot of conventional bombings...in the next year or so.
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To those who voted for me, thank you. And to those who didn't, better luck next year!
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I love getting stuff, and if I give a present to someone and don't get one back, you can bet your life they won't be getting one next year.
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If it's the ultimate game, how come they're playing it again next year?
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Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education.
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