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Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.
George Orwell
Reporting is communicating what someone else does not wish to be disseminated: all other activities are marketing.
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Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.
Louis D. Brandeis
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Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any.
Jane Russell
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Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.
Joseph Pulitzer
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Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I’m not doing any of that right now. I don’t have any axes to grind.
Michael Nesmith
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I have been a provoker and I'll probably always be one in the public arena for the rest of my life.
Mark Lanegan
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Donate and do not talk about it, they say you do nothing for the society; do and talk about it, they say you seek publicity!
Amitabh Bachchan
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
Salman Rushdie
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I didn't realize - you think you are doing a movie but then you realize it's a Columbia Pictures movie so it's probably going to have some publicity. Then you see a billboard and it's like, 'God! I'm on a billboard!' It doesn't hit all at once, it kind of unravels itself and it's still unraveling.
Chris Evans
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Archaeologists are underpaid publicity agents for deceased royalty.
John Agar
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There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
Brendan Behan
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Whatever you have read I have said is almost certainly untrue, except if it is funny, in which case I definitely said it.
Tallulah Bankhead
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Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation
Charles Evans Hughes
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Neither privacy nor publicity is dead, but technology will continue to make a mess of both.
danah boyd
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Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt ... we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're here to hold the radical line.
Ingrid Newkirk
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‎‎‎‎Short of committing murder, negative publicity sells more seats than positive publicity.
Michael O'Leary
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A woman's suffering is never above half known, for the fact of the publicity of her wrongs is counted to her for disgrace.
Caroline Norton
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The publicity I have been getting, a good deal of which is untrue, and the rest of it ill considered, has done me more harm than good.
George S. Patton
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Some people out there think everything I do is a publicity stunt, they think when I go to the bathroom it's a publicity stunt.
Madonna Ciccone
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Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.
Jeremy Bentham
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It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity.
Michael Hutchence
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Hollywood - that's a place where love is viewed both pragmatically and philosophically in the saying, 'Tis better to have loved and divorced than never to have had any publicity at all.
Ava Gardner
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Some people call me a publicity hound.
Joe Arpaio
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Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are.
Leif Garrett
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I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity.
Raf Simons
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Never attempt to catch a whale with a minnow.
P. T. Barnum
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As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Never lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life.
Christabel Pankhurst
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The souls you have got cast upon the screen of publicity appear like the horrid and writhing creatures enlarged from the insect world, and revealed to us by the cinematograph.
James Larkin
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Direct, forceful, energetic. Loves power, eats up publicity and flattery... Can turn on charm at will and knows it.
Joseph Stilwell
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The success of a terrorist operation depends almost entirely on the amount of publicity it receives.
Walter Laqueur
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Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.
John Berger
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Cricket is just something that I am good at, just like various people are good at various things. What's lucky is that cricket gets enormous publicity.
Rahul Dravid
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Without publicity a terrible thing happens: nothing.
P. T. Barnum
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In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.
C. Wright Mills
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I have to fight to keep my image really me... I rejected some gorgeous publicity shots because they just didn't look like me.
Avril Lavigne
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[On refusing to allow photos to be published of herself and her children:] A lady's name should appear in print only three times, at her birth, marriage, and death.
Edith Roosevelt
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A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.
Al Bernstein
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Nothing is easier to avoid than publicity. If one genuinely doesn't want it, one doesn't get it.
C.P. Snow
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Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.
Donald Rumsfeld
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John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations.
Wally Schirra
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The soundtrack of O Brother is the most publicity I've gotten. I don't feel that I have lost any of my old fans, but I have gained new ones.
Ralph Stanley