Michael Schudson Quotes

The effectiveness of advertising depends on the amount and kind of product information available to consumers... advertising will be more successful the more impoverished the consumer's information environment.

Michael Schudson

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AdvertisingEnvironmentInformation

Language and identity are so fundamentally intertwined. You peel back all the layers in terms of what we wear and what we eat and all the things that mark us, and in the end, what we have are our words.

Jhumpa Lahiri

WordsIdentityEndLanguageYouEat

My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their first language is Yoruba, and their second language is English.

John Boyega

LanguageFirstFortunateEnglish

I purposely don't talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It's not about the money.

Joel Osteen

GoodChildrenHealthGreatMoneyMe

Being in the dark, there's a real weight to it. It's heavy.

Amanda Lindhout

DarkRealBeingHeavyWeight

I took up arms for the freedom of my color. It is our own - we will defend it or perish.

Toussaint Louverture

FreedomColorWillDefendUpOwn

Growing up in the Midwest, I was very close to my maternal grandmother, who, as a young widow running a small business in 1920s Kansas City, had known firsthand the old Pendergast regime and its classic combine of politics and organized crime.

Roger Morris

BusinessPoliticsCityGrowing Up

I never chose something just for the money.

Rithvik Dhanjani

MoneyNeverSomethingJustChose

How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!

Michel de Montaigne

CrimeMoreCriminalThanHowMany

Numerically, half of our high-ranking government officials should be women, and half should be men. And yet the division between the sexes is highly disproportionate in favour of men.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

WomenMenGovernmentDivisionHalf

I'm someone who loves romance. I always have loved it. Most people who grew up as nerds, as I was, surprisingly, have loved romance.

Mindy Kaling

PeopleLovedSomeoneAlwaysRomance

I would write plays for my grandmother, who was stone deaf, my mother and the dog, that was our audience.

Jayne Meadows

DogMotherStoneDeafGrandmother

Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. We are eating too much while others starve.

Jonathan Sacks

LiveChildrenTimePeopleWorldDie

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