Hype Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, Id be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that thats the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because Ive always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.

  Flavor Flav

  Rap, Enemy, Trying

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• As long as I'm giving a little hype, I can't resist saying that Elie [Wiesel] has also written a number of pieces for Bible Review, for which I serve as editor.

  Hershel Shanks

  Editors, Numbers, Long

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• The studios are making fewer films. They are making more expensive films. Profits are tougher to come by. Not only because of the expense of production. But also because of the expense of promotion and hype. To boil that all down, it's more about hype than it is about filmmaking.

  William Friedkin

  Film, Promotion, Profit

  "EXCLUSIVE: William Friedkin Revisits To Live and Die in L.A. on Blu-ray". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. February 19, 2010.

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• President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.

  Ralph Nader

  Government, People, Promise

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• Well, Led Zeppelin IV! That's it really. I'll tell you why the album had no title - because we were so fed up with the reactions to the third album, that people couldn't understand why that record wasn't a direct continuation of the second album. And then people said we were a hype and all, which was the furthest thing from what we were. So we just said, `let's put out an album with no title at all!' That way, either people like it or they don't... but we still got bad reviews!

  Jimmy Page

  People, Titles, Albums

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• The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom - never.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Appreciate, Facts, Sides

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• A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

  William Hazlitt

  Respect, Hypocrite, Hypocrisy

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.142

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• But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers.

  Armistead Maupin

  Communication, Opportunity, Phones

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• When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.

  Harry S. Truman

  Gun, Honor, President

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• Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled.

  John Wanamaker

  Lying, Believe, Deception

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• The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.

  Charles Stanley

  Religious, World, Way

  Charles Stanley (2002). “How to Listen to God”, p.32, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack of preparation for afterwards and the chaos and suffering that continuous - so it won't go away will it?

  Clare Short

  War, Suffering, Preparation

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• I'd gone from being this art student messing about with music to this girl with a record deal, magazine front covers and all this hype. In many ways, it was everything I ever wanted, but when it happened all I felt was total, paralysing fear.

  Florence Welch

  Girl, Art, Gone

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• Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Lying, Deceived Us, Deceit

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• It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.

  Freddie Mercury

  Careers, Soul, Talent

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• You become very known for being someone's girlfriend, and all of a sudden there's all this hype and buzz for all the wrong reasons.

  Sienna Miller

  Girlfriend, Buzz, Reason

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• If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Thinking, Awards, Two

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• I'm different from any other designer, businesswise, in that I've built this company up and I own it. I never had business hype behind me to promote my image... My image is real... I have never had marketing people telling me what to do.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Real, People, Marketing

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• With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Money, Giving, Groups

  "The Danger of American Fascism". New York Times, April 9, 1944.

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• I'm completely removed from any hype that comes my way.

  Justin Timberlake

  Way, My Way

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• A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

  Harry S. Truman

  Leadership, President, Events

  Harry S. Truman (1956). “Memoirs: Years of trail and hope”

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• I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.

  Freddie Mercury

  Song, Writing, Used

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