Headlines Quotes

• People get up, they go to work, they have their lives, but you'll never see the headlines say, 'Six billion people got along rather well today.' You'll have the headline about the 30 people who shot each other.

  John Malkovich

  People, Today, Six

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• Chronic malnutrition, or the lack of proper nutrition over time directly contributes to three times as many child deaths as food scarcity. Yet surprisingly, you don't really hear about this hidden crisis through the morning news, Twitter or headlines of major newspapers.

  Cat Cora

  Morning, Children, Three

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• On the average, five times as many people read the headlines as read the body copy.

  David Ogilvy

  Average, People, Body

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• They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball.

  Ogden Nash

  Funny, Sarcasm, Unemployment

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• From early Colonial days, sex life in America had been based on the custom of men supporting women. That situation reached its heyday in the Twenties when it was easy for any dabbler in stocks to flaunt his manhood by lavishing an unearned income on girls. But with the stock-market crash, men were hard put even to keep their wives, let alone spend money on sex outside the home. The adjustment was much easier on women than on men, who jumped out of windows in droves, whereas I can't recall a single headline that read: KEPT GIRL LEAPS FROM LOVE NEST.

  Anita Loos

  Girl, Sex, Home

  Anita Loos (1974). “Kiss Hollywood good-by”, Viking Adult

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• Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?

  William Hague

  Law, Guilty, Release

  "Yesterday in parliament" by The Associated Press, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2006.

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• Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news.

  Daniel Hannan

  Next Day, Interesting, Political

  "A dull display of viral virility" by Michael White, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2009.

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• If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Morning, Humorous, Swimming

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.

  Charles Kuralt

  Kindness, Greed, Everyday

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Money, Epic

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• There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.

  Phil Ochs

  Song, Mirrors, Musical

  "Phil Ochs in Concert". Live album by Phil Ochs (introduction to the song "The Marines Have Landed on the Shores of Santo Domingo"), March 1966.

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• Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.

  Tony Blair

  Religious, Numbers, Racism

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• News is important information that may influence your investments. Noise is talk or buzz or some headline that prevents you from seeing a story clearly. News is useful. Noise is a distraction. Calling what's noise and news after the fact is easy.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Important, Buzz, Information

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• I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.

  Lou Gehrig

  Differences, Long, Guy

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• A lot of the stories are internal. They leak it to me wanting to get attention, wanting to get that headline. More times than not, I will not give it to them.

  Matt Drudge

  Giving, Attention, Stories

  Q & A at the Washington Press Club, delivered 2 June 1998

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• Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, "Man Gets Married!"

  Larry David

  Men, People, Paper

  "Larry David: The Man Behind Seinfeld". "The Laugh Factory Magazine" Interview, www.laughfactory.com. June 28, 2016.

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• My God... What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don't make the playoffs?

  Wade Boggs

  Sports, Monday, Yankees

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• I don't make demands. I don't tell you how it should be. I'll give you options, and it's up to you to select or throw 'em away. That should be the headline: If you're insecure, don't call.

  Russell Crowe

  Insecure, Giving, Demand

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• I think the record speaks for itself. These are two individuals who have been for the war when the headlines were good and against it when their poll ratings were bad.

  Dick Cheney

  War, Thinking, Two

  Dick Cheney during Vice-Presidential Debate at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, www.cnn.com. October 7, 2004.

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• I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man.

  Edward Zwick

  Men, Thinking, America

  "Featured Filmmaker: Edward Zwick" by Stax, www.ign.com. March 4, 2002.

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• Kennedy invited us into the White House-the first time in the history of the White House picketers had been invited inside. This made front page headlines.

  Peter Coyote

  White, House, Pages

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• It follows that unless your headline sells your product, you have wasted 90 percent of your money.

  David Ogilvy

  Copywriting, Percent, Products

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• The headline is the 'ticket on the meat.' Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising.

  David Ogilvy

  Perspective, Meat, Flags

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• Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.

  Bill Gates

  News, Way, Improvement

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• I glance at the headlines just to kind of get a flavor for what's moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read the news themselves.

  George W. Bush

  Moving, People, News

  "White House Insiders". www.washingtonpost.com. May 13, 2004.

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