“The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.”
C. Wright Mills
“Increasingly, stars are recruited from the ranks of professional models, with the result that today's starlets are better dressed and better groomed than ever before, though it is doubtful if they are better actresses.”
Rita Hayworth
“If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.”
Red Adair
“All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgerize that society. We can brutalize it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.”
William Bernbach
“Also some of today's selling pressure is a result of a very quiet market, with many professional investors taking the final trading of 2005 as a holiday, combined with some last minute cleaning up of portfolios by those investment managers who have made it in today.”
Robert Pavlik
“As a result of our staff's professionalism, our centers and departments have maintained the same high level of proficiency during the final phases of our business transformation and staff transitions.”
Beryl D. Simonson
“The pricing is on par with other professional playoff and all-star tickets.”
Tim Brosnan
