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For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#artiste #fine #gesture #long #make

I like the energy of live performance. ↗

— Sandra Bernhard

#i #like #live #live performance #performance

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art. ↗

— William Bernbach

#art #fundamentally #happens #persuasion #science

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

#anything #does #duties #longer #modern

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science. ↗

— Claude Bernard

#experimentation #observation #passive #science

But you've got to have money for comfort, which obviously doesn't matter as much when you're young, but even so. I always like to bloody eat well and be warm. Have a drink when I want it. ↗

— Jeffrey Bernard

#bloody #comfort #drink #eat #even

If you start pandering to young people, you're going to get accused of simply giving people what they want. ↗

— Brian Williams

#get #giving #going #pandering #people

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#common #everyday #indifferent #likely #only

The most powerful element in advertising is the truth. ↗

— William Bernbach

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Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message. ↗

— William Bernbach

#cleverness #clients #instead #job #kill