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"Lying to your shareholders is illegal. Lying to your customers is marketing."
Anonymous (who has presumably never been prosecuted for false advertising)

"Let's be real. If you're trying to sell what the Republican Party can do for you, it's best not to remind people what its recent fuck-ups actually did TO you ... [it's] the same reason you never hear the words, 'From the director of Corky Romano...'"
Bill Maher, on the 2012 Republican national convention ignoring George W. Bush's presidency, Real Time with Bill Maher

"Rise looked good and the press was being told that it was 'better than Street Fighter II'. It just goes to show what suckers these people must have been... The marketing division of Time Warner boasted that they could sell turds with the packaging we had given them."
Sean Naden on the pre-release publicity for Rise of the Robots, Retro Gamer

"They say you can't polish a turd. But you can roll it in glitter!"
Graham Norton on his chat show, April 2015

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