#gimmick

Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture. ↗

— Method Man

#gimmick #hip-hop #i #rap

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

— Marilyn Manson

#criticism #gimmick #itself #manson #marilyn

You gotta have a gimmick. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#gotta #you

I believe in keeping running simple and, in regard to shoes, that would mean no gimmicks, unnecessary cushioning, etc. ↗

— Bill Rodgers

#etc #gimmicks #i #i believe #i believe in

I’ll flick a penny to the dirt, and if I see one on the ground I won’t pick it up. So why is .99 cents so much sexier than a dollar?
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— Jarod Kintz

#currency #dirt #disrespect #dollar #gimmick

Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists. ↗

— Cornel West

#cheap #clever #distraction #gimmicks #mass

I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#bing crosby #crosby #gimmick #him #his

All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background. ↗

— Bobby Vinton

#fact #gimmick #in fact #just #me

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

I think, honestly, that the word 'indie' is a false gimmick. 'Independent' used to mean a movie that was financed outside corporate Hollywood, but a lot of what gets called independent these days is totally produced within that system. And there's nothing wrong with that. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#corporate #days #false #financed #gets