"Television, I would say, isn't an advertising medium. It's a selling medium."

-- William S. Paley

#Television Quotes #Advertising Quotes #Selling Quotes

“Somebody will be exhibiting a bunch of bananas in a gallery, and they'll get me on to talk dirty about it.”
“Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do.”

Source : Derrick Bell (2008). “Faces At The Bottom Of The Well: The Permanence Of Racism”, p.12, Basic Books
“Let weak Christians know that a spark from heaven, though kindled under green wood that sobs and smokes, yet it will consume all at last.”
“I'm imagining that paper books will evolve to become something akin to candles we have them in our homes and cherish their light but don't light our homes with them. Readers of Lincoln's era would likely be surprised at how well-lit our homes are and I think it's likely that we will be surprised at how well-read future book readers will be.”
“All knowledge is worth having”

Source : Jacqueline Carey (2007). “Kushiel's Avatar”, Macmillan
“You become an artist to upset your family.”

Source : "Nach uns die Malflut! Theoretische Poesien". Book by Gunter Brus (p. 135), 2003.
“I am far from sure when I am acting and when I am not or, should I more frankly put it, when I am lying and when I am not. For what is acting but lying and what is good acting but convincing lying?”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.”

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