Hype Quotes

• If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius - it wasn't a hype. If you hype it and it fails, then it was just a hype.

  Neil Bogart

  Business, Genius, Succeed

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• This hype word bothers me though It always sounds like an accusation, what does it mean, advertising, column inches in the press? Bands themselves are never really responsible for all of that. That is something that happens to you when you sell millions of records.

  Holly Johnson

  Mean, Sound, Doe

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• However, the radio and national media depend much more on the hype from a good record label, and from a " buzz " about a band, then from just one or two good shows. There are a lot of artists that have a ton of good press going for them, and still do not make it big in the US.

  Pat Garrett

  Artist, Media, Two

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• There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.

  Leon Kass

  Baby, Perspective, Designer

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• You have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what's happening round you, no matter what the hype or the publicity, you can still manage to make leaps in your work as an artist.

  Jimmy Smits

  Artist, Storm, Matter

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• I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up.

  Ice T

  Thinking, East, Beef

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• You know, I had the ability like a catalyst to really get everybody hyped up.

  Jim Capaldi

  Catalyst, Ability, Knows

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• The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Real, Giving, Definitions

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• A lot of people my age are so hyper. I like hyper people.

  Edward Furlong

  People, Age, Hyper

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• Now, what tends to happen is that the stories get hyped. And the medicines are not quite as revolutionary and as dramatic as they seem to be. But, certainly, various phases of this problem are being attacked by the pharmaceutical companies.

  Mort Kondracke

  Medicine, Stories, Phases

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• The business is all about gush and hype. You never have a bad meeting in L.A.

  Emily Blunt

  Meetings

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• There's something that happens to you when you come back to your hometown.

  Joseph Dougherty

  Hometown, Accusation, Happens

  "‘Pretty Little Liars’ EP Explains How Spencer and Caleb Ended up Together, Teases What’s Down Sara’s Ladder". Interview with Reid Nakamura, www.thewrap.com. February 16, 2016.

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• Fashion is primitive in its insistence on exhibitionism, which withers in isolation. The catwalk fashion show with its incandescent hype is its apotheosis. A ritualized gathering of connoiseurs and the spoilt at a spotlit parade of snazzy pulchritude, it is an industrialized version of the pagan festivals of renewal. At the end of each seasonal display, a priesthood is enjoined to carry news of the omens to the masses.

  Stephen Bayley

  Fashion, Gathering, Exhibitionism

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• Substance and content over style and hype any day.

  Derwin L. Gray

  Leadership, Christian, Style

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• Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

  Federico Fellini

  Awkward, Misery, Desperate

  Federico Fellini, Damian Pettigrew (2003). “I'm a born liar: a Fellini lexicon”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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  People will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype.

  Miles Davis

  People, Enough, Ifs

  Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). “Miles”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

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• Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

  Eric Hoffer

  People, Doe, Helping

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

  Victor Kiam

  Business, Littles, Endure

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• There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.

  Dick Cheney

  Gathering, Deceit, Resolution

  Remarks by the Vice President to the World Economic Forum, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. January 24, 2004.

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• Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Humility, Prejudice

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.110, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.

  Flavor Flav

  Jobs, Men, Good Times

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• Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

  Plato

  Plato, Philosophical, Men

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• I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

  Michael Douglas

  New York, People, Chicago

  FaceBook post by Michael Douglas from Apr 16, 2013

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• The product has to work. It has to be a good product. An enormous number of them are all hype with no value at all. People get into them because they want to make a lot of quick, easy money.

  Brian Tracy

  Numbers, People, Want

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• Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.

  Sophocles

  Unjust, Wise Man Once Said, Fraud

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