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If you don't get noticed, you don't have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed naturally, without screaming or without tricks.

Leo Burnett

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Leo Burnett
Age: 79 †
Born: 1891
Born: October 21
Died: 1971
Died: June 7
Advertising Executive
Advertising Person
Businessperson
Journalist
Saint Johns
Michigan
Without
Screaming
Noticed
Naturally
Tricks
Economy
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Art
Anything

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