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Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.


David Ogilvy

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BILL OLIVER We're just going to try to proceed with business as usual.
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ZIAD K. ABDELNOUR Those who are trying to impress others must puff themselves up.
VIKRANT PARSAI We thank God that our enemies are idiots.
MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
MARTIN TUPPER Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
H. L. MENCKEN The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots
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KINGMAN BREWSTER, JR. Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.
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ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Not sure if I'm smart or just surrounded by idiots.
MILAN STOJILOVIC I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.
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MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Love me for what I am
Not what I try to be.
Love me for what I am.
I am
A person...
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Into your eyes where the moonlight swims,
And ...
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DAVID CASSIDY It wasn't until later when people became aware of my writing that I would hear begrudgingly, ...
DAVID CASSIDY If people respond to the songs, whether they love you or hate you, then you've really done your ...
DAVID CASSIDY Anybody who carries the albatross of that teen-idol thing - well, people tend to look and say: '...
DAVID CASSIDY I don't want to end up being some joke on a bad TV series.
DAVID CASSIDY I just want to continue to produce good work. I don't want to do junk.
DAVID CASSIDY Just do me a favor. Don't call me 'former teen heartthrob,' okay? It's as if they we...
DAVID CASSIDY I hitched up to Haight-Ashbury in the Summer of Love, you know? And I was very much politically alig...
DAVID CASSIDY Contrary to public opinion and the image people have of me, I grew up in a very lower-middle-class, ...
DAVID CASSIDY It was amazing for me growing up in the musical decade of the '60s. I saw The Beatles on televis...
DAVID CASSIDY Doing musicals and theatrical productions, I never did any of my hits.
DAVID CASSIDY I turned up to all my son's performances and baseball games because my father never did that for...
DAVID CASSIDY I was very wary of repeating my father's behaviour and did everything not to act like he did.
DAVID CASSIDY Most definitely, my dad was my biggest influence.
DAVID CASSIDY My first five albums were triple-platinum, and I played a lot of concerts.
DAVID CASSIDY The television and film business has never really been kind or compassionate, in general.
DAVID CASSIDY It's amazing what happens to your body as you get a little older.
DAVID CASSIDY I didn't end up some sad, tragic guy singing in a lounge somewhere. I never went out and took bi...
DAVID CASSIDY Nobody likes to be rejected, you know?
DAVID CASSIDY I nearly died twice after I replaced Michael Crawford in 'EFX.'
DAVID CASSIDY I work for me, 18 hours a day. It's my gig. So I don't have time to get a point of view.
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