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Media Quotes
"When I face the media, maybe I don't feel it now, here with you, because it's a different sort of interview, but when I face the media before or after the game, I feel it as part of the game."
129
"At the very least we should be given a bit of credit and a little bit of space, and maybe the media should think we could help them discover why English teams do not win European competitions."
114
"Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated."
106
"Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them."
95
"We were able to flood the zone immediately."
70
"Bush and Blair combined their efforts to deceive both nations in a carefully coordinated manner, more so than anyone is willing to point out in the media."
65
"An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes - and as with memes in their original version."
58
"The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone."
51
"Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press."
44
"They're calling their Washington sources at the NRC or in Congress and they're not hesitating to give their opinion, but their opinion, frankly, in those early days was not very well informed."
44
"It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale."
43
"I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on."
43
"We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us."
43
"Yeah, I have been because, generally speaking, to we Biblical literalists, the media is very hostile."
42
"It is the press that has taken these charges and accusations and blown them up without any kind of skepticism whatsoever - blown them into realities and treated them as if they were true."
42
"I mean, all the ratings wars are silly. But, I mean, someone has to be concerned about the ratings because it means, you know, it translates into revenue."
42
"Don't worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test... Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap - but it was a revolutionary piece of crap."
41
"My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible."
39
"The discoloration is very minimal. I have not turned blue. The extent of skin discoloration is not even remotely near what the news media are saying. It is barely noticeable."
39
"Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema."
39
"If Jesus were here today, he wouldn't be riding around on a donkey. He'd be taking a plane, he'd be using the media."
39
"Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live."
38
"Suddenly, the screens were dominated by American entertainment to the extent of something like 95 percent. As a result, audiences turned away from the kinds of films that we used to make."
38
"The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me."
38
"We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune."
37
"I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book."
35
"With the exception of the New York Times, Fox news, and Lou Dobbs of CNN, and talk radio, the rest of the mainstream media has basically been silenced like a bunch of dumb monkeys."
35
"I will say we now, in the polling in Wisconsin, much different than many other races, the public didn't perceive that we were getting a fair shake from the media."
35
"Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news."
34
"I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere."
34
"I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn."
34
"Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces."
34
"Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media."
33
"I have the New York Daily News to thank for the jeans controversy."
33
"Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained."
33
"The alternate media are becoming important and viable alternatives to playing live. Records, videos, that kind of thing. They're going to start to count for something. Because there's only a limited amount of us-time available to us."
32
"Previously, on Lock, Stock, I went to bed at two in the morning and woke up at five in the morning, and on this one I was known to nod off on the set occasionally."
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