"Hitler had this understanding that you speak to people's deepest, darkest emotions and give them voice that can be incredibly effective."
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"Advertising always corrupts the goal of the search engine, which is to try to give you the most important stuff, not the stuff someone paid there to be there."
"It is better to give children a rule to break than to give them no rules at all."
"I don't want to say that the creativity would give out - I can't imagine what argument I would bring forward for that. But I think that there's something on the individual level that's a limitation."
"By giving every American access to quality, affordable health care, they will create a more competitive, a stronger and more secure America!"
"As a designer, design director or any creative person, you have to hire great people, support them and make them feel comfortable so they can contribute and give you their best."
"Give me the control, don't ever come on the set, and I'll show it to you when it's cut."
"I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay. Yet I have a reputation for being cooperative with the press. That's because when I do give an interview, I'm willing to tell the truth about what I do for a living and how goofy it is sometimes - and how volatile it can also be."
"It just so happens that my body type and my lifestyle gives me a preclusion for high blood sugars."
"I've worked with people who are much further to the left than I am and much further to the right than I am. At the end of the day, who gives a ... . Good for you. This is America. Vote your conscience."
"Conservatives understand Halloween, liberals only understand Christmas. If you want to control a population, don't give it social services, give it a scary adversary."
"Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better."
"For most people, self-awareness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. It's about that time that we start viewing the world as something other than a whoop-de-doo playground, we start to experience personally how threatening it can be, how cruel and unjust. At the very moment when we become, for the first time, both introspective and socially conscientious, we receive the bad news that the world, by and large, doesn't give a rat's ass."
"I don't want to give the impression that I hold daily conversations with my household appliances, although my toaster is as old as Drew Barrymore and almost as talented."
"I don't really have one type favorite type of candy. When I was younger we used to always go to the rich neighborhoods where they give out the big candy bars, not the little fun-sized ones. We'd go back two and three times, hit them again and again. They didn't care and we loved it."
"You can be a They and be a billionaire. Not all billionaires are happy and fulfilled. My whole thing is, add value to whoever you meet. Sometimes, the value is just being happy and loving, giving an extra couple of moments to look someone in the eye. Nothing replaces authentic feeling and emotion."
"Tap into people's emotions. We've all been put to sleep by a speaker who just gives the facts. You must tap into people's feelings."
"Remember, ask and you shall receive. If you ask a terrible question, you'll get a terrible answer. Your mental computer is ever ready to serve you, and whatever question you give it, it will surely come up with an answer."
"I'm on a mission to help people grow and give. The more they grow the more they can give, the more life they build, the greater the quality of their life."
"I believe that life supports what supports more of life. In other words, motivation does matter. If you're just trying to take care of yourself, you're part of life and I believe life steps in and gives you a certain level of insight."