#my

I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#best #come #done #experience #good

Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#economy #firm #freedom #merits #person

I grew up never seeing myself on-screen, and it's really important to me to give people who look like me a chance to see themselves. I want to see myself as the hero of any story. I want to see myself save the world from the bomb. ↗

— Sandra Oh

#bomb #chance #give #grew #hero

In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my parents' discouragement was for my own protection, and I'm really close to them now, but they didn't understand that there is value in this. That's because they didn't know. ↗

— Sandra Oh

#because #big #close #discouragement #education

In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.' ↗

— Ann Curry

#end #i #in the end #life #made

I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people. ↗

— Ben Okri

#beauty #fighting #get #i #i am

The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things. ↗

— Ben Okri

#acknowledged #cannot #coded #dislike #frontiers

I was invited to join the newly established Central Chemical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1954 and was able to establish a small research group in organic chemistry, housed in temporary laboratories of an industrial research institute. ↗

— George Andrew Olah

#academy #central #chemical #chemistry #establish

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present. ↗

— Babatunde Olatunji

#gift #history #mystery #present #today

Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#along #becoming #child #events #finding