#gimmick

I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss. ↗

— Tom Verlaine

#appearance #band #big #cultivated #gimmick

Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions? ↗

— J. C. Watts

#agree #analyses #believing #cannot #competing

Marilyn Manson is a criticism of gimmickry, while being itself a gimmick. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#criticism #gimmick #itself #manson #marilyn

Awards are only a publicity gimmick. ↗

— Tony Randall

#gimmick #only #publicity

No matter how skillful you are, you can't invent a product advantage that doesn't exist. And if you do, and it's just a gimmick, it's going to fall apart anyway. ↗

— William Bernbach

#anyway #apart #exist #fall #gimmick