Press Conferences Quotes - Page 2

• There's not someone who tells you how adorable you are and rubs your head and goes into a crowded press conference and stands at the back and winks at you so that you think, 'I can get through this.'

  Cher

  Thinking, Adorable, Conferences

  "Benigni's 'Life' to be reborn in English language". www.cnn.com. March 26, 1999.

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• No press conference announcing a last film. I'd just steal away. Best way because, if by chance after two or three years something interesting comes up, I would not - like Sinatra - have to say: 'Well, I've thought it over and decided to come back.'

  Sophia Loren

  Years, Two, Interesting

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• He'd (Reggie Jackson) give you the shirt off his back. Of course he'd call a press conference to announce it.

  Catfish Hunter

  Giving, Pitching, Shirts

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• During my first press conference as president, in answer to a direct question, I pointed out that, as good Marxist-Leninists, the Soviet leaders have openly and publicly declared that the only morality they recognize is that which will further their cause, which is world revolution.

  Ronald Reagan

  Presidential, Leader, Answers

  Remarks at the Annual Convention of the the National Association of Evangelicals, delivered 8 March 1983, Orlando, Florida

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• at the press conference for the film he impressed everyone with his complete sincerity and innocence. he said he had come to see the sea for the first time and marveled at how clean it was. someone told him that, in fact, it wasn't. 'when the world is emptied of human beings' he said, 'it will become so again

  Werner Herzog

  Sea, World, Firsts

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• Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out are his press conferences, because he's so brilliant

  Brian De Palma

  Interesting, France, Brilliant

  Brian De Palma, Laurence F. Knapp (2003). “Interviews”, p.184, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I'm sure something will pop into my head here in the midst of this press conference, with all the pressure of trying to come up with an answer, but it hadn't yet.

  George W. Bush

  Trying, Answers, Pressure

  Prime Time Press Conference on Iraq War, delivered on 13 April 2004 from the East Room of the White House

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• Now apparently I'm told that every celebrity is expected to honour the details of their private life with a press conference, a fragrance and a prime-time reality show.

  Jodie Foster

  Reality, Honor, Details

  "Jodie Foster's Golden Globes acceptance speech: Did she come out? Depends on whom you ask". nationalpost.com. January 14, 2013.

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• The media want to maintain their intimate relation to state power. They want to get leaks, they want to get invited to the press conferences. They want to rub shoulders with the Secretary of State, all that kind of business. To do that, you've got to play the game, and playing the game means telling their lies, serving as their disinformation apparatus.

  Noam Chomsky

  Lying, Mean, Media

  "Chronicles of Dissent: Interviews with David Barsamian". Book by David Barsamian, chomsky.info. 1992.

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• At a press conference yesterday NASA announced that 2005 was the hottest year on record. It is so hot, and global warming is so bad, if the presidential election were held today, Al Gore would still lose.

  Jay Leno

  Years, Yesterday, Presidential

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• I've seen better coverage at an Alan Keyes press conference.

  Dennis Miller

  Football, Conferences, Coverage

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• When our ancestors were attacked at Pearl Harbor, they called it a day that would live in infamy. The day the Partials attacked us with the RM Virus will not live in anything, because there will be none of us left to remember it." -President David R. Cregan, March 21, 2065, in a press conference at the White House. Three hours later he hanged himself.

  Dan Wells

  White, House, President

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• I don't know anything about press conferences." "Oh, just Google it. I'm sure someone's written an article on holding a successful one. I mean, if the President can manage it, I'm sure you can. He looks like he can barely tie his shoes without help.

  Cory Doctorow

  Mean, Successful, Shoes

  Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.230, Macmillan

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• I don't really rate press conferences. It's not as though I leave the room fist-pumping my way down the corridor after a good one.

  Andy Roddick

  Fists, Way, Rooms

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• You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Presidential, Gentleman, Complaining

  Press conference, Los Angeles, Calif., 7 Nov. 1962

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• When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started...

  Jose Mourinho

  Motivational, Soccer, Games

  "Look, listen and learn" by Simon Garfield, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2007.

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• Too many managers manage by what the postgame press conference is going to be.

  John Kruk

  Conferences, Manage, Presses

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• Eisenhower's career demonstrated how it is possible to fool all the people all the time...'I may be stupid,' he once said at a press conference, 'but at least I'm sincere!' Actually, he was neither, but it suited his purpose to play the part of the bumbling man of good will who was 'not an expert in these matters' but somehow would do his best.

  Gore Vidal

  Stupid, Men, Play

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• It's not like I just have to go to Washington and go to the White House everyday, and go to the same press conference at 10 in the morning and then be briefed at 4 in the afternoon, and then get a story on at 6.

  Tabitha Soren

  Morning, White, House

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• A solemn day. Barring a stay by Sup Ct, & with my final nod, Utah will use most extreme power & execute a killer. Mourn his victims. Justice.

  Mark Shurtleff

  Utah, Html, Justice

  Mark L. Shurtleff ‏ @MarkShurtleff, twitter.com. June 18, 2010.

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• I told Pattie that last night I dreamt that we had a press conference and nobody showed up. I am overwhelmed that so many of you are here.

  LaVell Edwards

  Dream, Night, Lasts

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• Nothing spooky or terrible happened on set, but we were told to say it had. We were giving a press conference and the writers were going on about these terrible things that supposedly happened while we were filming.

  Margot Kidder

  Giving, Scary, Spooky

  Interview with Andrew Williams, metro.co.uk. October 27, 2009.

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• They changed the press conference, they are trying to change the time of the weigh-in. They are trying to mess with me, but what they don't realize is that they are only fueling me to bring more hurt.

  David Haye

  Hurt, Motivation, Trying

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• Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference.

  Hugh Newell Jacobsen

  Cities, Feet, Black

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• When I worked for Entertainment Tonight I got to emcee Paul McCartneys press conference.

  Nina Blackwood

  Emcee, Tonight, Entertainment

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