Candy bar companies, through commercials, have tied their products to low-energy cues, transforming what was once a dessert into a pick-me-up for cubicle dwellers.
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Related I used to live on one candy bar a day - it cost a nickel. I always remember the candy bar was called... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Once we tied the game the energy went up. It was our seventh overtime game, and it was nice to win i... AMY BUTLER Love and hate have a magical transforming power. They are the great soul changers. We grow through t... GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL I get the Reese's candy bar, If you read it, there's an apostrophe. The candy bar is his. I didn't k... MITCH HEDBERG Whoever thought a tiny candy bar should be called fun size was a moron. GLENN BECK Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products. BOB UECKER We knew what the problem was. We were just going through the motions pretty much but he told us we n... DEANDRE RICE Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books. BELL HOOKS A lot of student directors used to pick other students to be in their graduate films, so. I ended up... BRIAN AUSTIN GREEN How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS We certainly have to develop energy conservation programs for households. For instance, if your hous... HUGH MACDONALD Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in. RIVER PHOENIX Consumers and businesses are going to live in the real world and the Internet world. The lesson is: ... LANNY BAKER [Charles Ross does a really good Luke Skywalker. The one man in] The One-Man Star Wars Trilogy, ... ... CHARLES ROSS Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ... SARAH DARER LITTMAN Low single-digit growth in the overall advertising market will be the bar for all media companies to... GREG FRASER If I were a candy bar I’d want to be a snicker, because then I’d have the last laugh!! NEIL LECKMAN The physicality of any character is always split up into fast, slow, high energy, low energy, what k... MADS MIKKELSEN I was a window dresser for Burton's once. What really put me off was the area manager coming rou... CHARLES DANCE if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I'm waiting for my kids to grow up and get into the Offspring and look at me like I'm a total candy-... JAKOB DYLAN [Consumers, through a heady mix of equating patriotism with spending and being bolstered by low inte... BOB TURNER Work/life benefits allow companies meaningful ways for responding to their employees' needs; the... ANNE M. MULCAHY There are a lot of companies that don't necessarily know if they can be independent companies. So a ... ANDREW SCHROEPFER The environment we have (low rates, low inflation) is a good environment for small companies. DENNIS CLARK She didn't want the medi-techs. She wanted a fucking a candy bar. J.D. ROBB With the costs that have been stripped out of a lot of companies, any pick-up in business they see f... DEREK MITCHELL The fundamentals are still there. We have low inflation, low interest rates and a worldwide demand f... ALFRED KUGEL If you want to grow up to be a big, strong pea, you have to eat your candy," Papa Pea would say. AMY KROUSE ROSENTHAL You can feel how much money goes into commercials by how swiftly they act on your mind. And they'... ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN Any good Irwin can make going to the corner store for a candy bar and a Coke lood death defying and ... MIRA GRANT Guys like me and Ray Charles, when we was coming up through our days, country music and soul music w... PERCY SLEDGE I gave her a Hershey's candy bar. See, I knew how to do it right. JOE RUSSEY We will still pick up the High 5 material. What we won't pick up now is all the paper products: news... JAMES HIGGINBOTHAM It raises the bar for commercial products, because vendors have to offer value on top of what open-s... JASON BLOOMBERG I went from a playing in a bar on a bar stool for free beer and tip money, where people weren't ... JAKE OWEN Everyone else could get through to my mother: all they had to do was dial a number and wait for her ... SARAH DESSEN We applaud the commitment of companies that act voluntarily to build this added level of safety into... LAURA RUIZ Lawsuits prod companies to make their products safer. ADAM COHEN Most people live their lives laying prostrate before a false god, waiting for a cue to rise. There a... LAWREN LEO That was probably what got my back up more than anything, was to have their coach standing on the ba... RICKY PONTING The other half of revenues was commerce, and once again we saw a steady stream of companies looking ... BOB DAVIS The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... SAM HARRIS After you have converted inspiration into ideas, the second stage of converting invisible energy int... SUNDAY ADELAJA The best companies are the ones that offer their products for free. DANNY RIMER As great a public speaker as I am, I don't know have - I don't - I don't have the words ... RYNE SANDBERG You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar. GEORGE CARLIN You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar GEORGE CARLIN Basically it?s a candy bar phone, but it folds open to a full keyboard, nice sized screen. CARAN SMITH [A 66 at Royal Lytham and St. Annes in the 1996 British Open convinced Woods he was ready, and Els w... ERNIE ELS I think a lot of companies have already put expectations so low they haven't set them up for those m... ADAM GREENE Investors want to understand what a company does, ... Tech companies seem incapable of explaining th... JAKOB NIELSEN It's amazing to me the number of companies which are getting into lacrosse, and the different produc... JAMES SIMPSON ... for miracles to happen, God, need our cooperation. As Pastor Charles once told me, God can throw... STEVAN V. NIKOLIC If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste... GARY F EVANS... Ants can carry twenty times their own body weight, which is useful information if you're moving out ... RON DARIAN The man I am today it's not the man of yesterday CHRISTOPHER FUDGE is a broken man an outlaw?" "More or less." Brienne answered. Septon Meribald ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The summer sun continued to rise in the sky and propel shocks of heat down on the city and the heavy... HUBERT SELBY JR. Taxpayers have been tricked into paying the oil companies and their wealthy investors billions throu... RALPH NADER I love eating it - grilled chicken, pasta, rice, and other foods that give me long term energy. Ever... DERRICK ROSE Today we act to hold faceless companies accountable -- companies that create instruments of destruct... BILL CAMPBELL The whole court system in this country seems a little bizarre, ... When I was a kid, cigarettes were... DONALD YACKTMAN Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a ... STEVE JOBS We willingly share personal information with companies for the convenience of using their products. REBECCA MACKINNON Sometimes the photographers would pose me in a low-necked nightgown and tell me to bend down and pic... JANE RUSSELL Partners like Whirlpool are national leaders in energy efficiency. The ENERGY STAR Sustained Excelle... DAVID RODGERS We could never find a place we liked for dessert. I'm a big dessert fan, so that was a problem. MICHAEL WELLS The people at Dylan's Candy Bar, they have to have an inner child and a sense of fun... and love... DYLAN LAUREN While other countries have been securing large export deals, American companies have been placed at ... STEPHEN FINCHER I have a passion for the name of "Mary,"
For once it was a magic sound to me,
And still it hal... LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) I was amazed at how easy it was to install. It's fun to see what comes up next, no commercials, and ... JAN RUNYON Over the past 60 years, marketing has moved from being product-centric (Marketing 1.0) to being cons... PHILIP KOTLER [Snack (between races, 12:45-4:30 p.m.) Snickers bar and a Gatorade (466 calories).] My valet keeps... JEREMY ROSE As we help empower consumers to reduce their energy costs through products and services, we also bel... BOB NARDELLI If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave ... MITCH ALBOM A lot of the blockbuster products will lose their patents soon, so the companies are milking them fo... ALEXANDER GROSCHKE In the days when corporate downsizing was all the rage, Wall Street took a lot of flak for judging c... JAMES SUROWIECKI I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could hav... BOB RICHARDS The ordinance says a bar is exempted, and a bar is someplace where the primary function is serving d... BOB BOVA This event highlights once again the difficulty in determining earnings for derivative transactions.... DICK BOVE Nicole showed up to meet me in an airport once wearing a sweatsuit, with a leopard-print neck pillow... RACHEL ZOE ...if anything matters then everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is impo... WILLIAM PAUL YOUNG Companies have to expand their market share and their industrial capacities. Prices are still low so... EMMANUEL SOUPRE That was nice. It was a big pick-me-up, glad to see it. It did pick our guys up, but they went right... DAVE ROWELL On Asking to Have the Candy Passed to Me During Schindler’s List “What do you want — the candy... JUSTIN HALPERN A lot of people tell me that they need to make it through the night when they buy their coffee. Coff... JAMIE DUDYCHA Companies that want athletes to use their products pay us to participate in the program, which allow... KATHY JORDAN There was a lot of pessimism going into the quarter for these companies. These companies hit their n... ANDREW GALLIGAN That's where the real hit is. A lot of companies do not pay for dependents. They leave it up to the ... DAVID LINDSEY The introduction of new products has mitigated the shift toward private-label products that generall... RONALD NEYSMITH They're going to change the language in their commercials to eliminate what we thought was an inaccu... LINDA MCDOUGALL The Supreme Court has made it clear that consenting adults are free to do what they wish in the priv... JOANN BELL What?” The word exploded out of me. “What do you want me to tell you? You want to hear about how... ALEXANDRA BRACKEN
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