Hype Quotes - Page 5

• The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live.

  William Graham Sumner

  Law, Age, Criminals

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• Obviously there will be a backlash. If you believe the hype you have to believe a backlash too. Any criticism we get, is always stuff we've already criticized ourselves.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Believe, Criticism, Stuff

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• The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

  Lord Acton

  Party, Democracies Have, Majority Rule

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.103, Jazzybee Verlag

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• As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive.

  Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

  Skills, Acting, Film

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

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• I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Deceit, Trouble, My Truth

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit.

  Lucien Bouchard

  Betrayal, Expression, Deceit

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• It's insane. I've had girls throwing themselves at me since the hype started. Now the film's out I can't walk down the street without being pounced on. All my life I've hated crowds. Now I only have to step outdoors and I'm at the centre of one. It's very cool but it's very uncomfortable too.

  Robert Pattinson

  Girl, Insane, Crowds

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• The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Running, Writing, Air

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• We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be.

  Denis Kearney

  Gold, Needs, Arms

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• Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.

  William Graham Sumner

  Men, Greed, Selfishness

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.41, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• I think the world is filled with so much hype and PR bull. Frankly, it all comes out in the end. Good or bad, I'd rather just let our accomplishments really speak for themselves.

  Bill Ford

  Thinking, Accomplishment, Bulls

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• People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Lying, People, Deception

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.44, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Grunge was so self-consciously lowbrow and nonaspirational that it seemed, at first, impervious to the hype and glamour normally applied swiftly to any emerging trend. But sure enough, grunge anthems found their way onto the soundtracks of television commercials, and Dodge Neons were hawked by kids in flannel shirts saying, 'Whatever.'

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Kids, Television Commercials, Self

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• Once you look past the hype, actors are nothing more than fugitives from reality who specialize in contradiction: we are both children and hardened adults—wide-eyed pupils and jaded working stiffs.

  Bruce Campbell

  Children, Past, Reality

  Bruce Campbell (2015). “If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B-Movie Actor”, p.317, Macmillan

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• They say don't believe your own hype, but if you don't why would anyone else? To be great you have to believe you can do great things.

  Charley Johnson

  Inspiring, Believe, Great Things

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• The whole music business in the United States is based on numbers, based on unit sales and not on quality. It's not based on beauty, it's based on hype and it's based on cocaine. It's based on giving presents of large packages of dollars to play records on the air.

  Frank Zappa

  Numbers, Air, Play

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• The easiest person to deceive is one's self.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Truth, Honesty, Self

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• And what I'm telling you now is not for you to go out and try the same ways I try, or not to even try my technique. Just put it to your personality, put it to yourself, and you develop your workout. Cause those books and things, those are other people's gimmicks and hypes. Build your own gimmick and hype, and that'll make you a better powerlifter. Not just doin' it like James does it, cause if you try to fly off the building like superman you'll be out there in the middle of the street.

  Big James Henderson

  Workout, Book, People

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• But get it while you're here boy, cause all that hype don't feel the same next year boy.

  Drake

  Success, Humble, Boys

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• It is true, I worry about the hype. The only person more over-hyped than me is you.

  Barack Obama

  Funny, Sarcastic, Worry

  CNN Larry King Live, transcripts.cnn.com. October 19, 2006.

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• I remember the day we were hanging around the band's commune and Roger came in with the press kit for a rock band (Moby Grape) any of us had ever seen. It looked psychedelic, yet it was done by ad people. I believe the word "hype" was coined on that very day.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Humorous, Believe, Rocks

  Cynthia Heimel (2002). “If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?!”, p.187, Grove Press

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• All war is based on deception.

  Sun Tzu

  Peace, War, Deception

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• I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

  Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

  Sarcastic, Art, Truth

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• Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.

  Johann Gottfried Seume

  Deception, Earth, Common

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• He's looking for the president's kidnapped daughter; everybody he calls on to help him is busy, but lo and behold, you look across the room, and I'm waiting for that action.

  Derek Luke

  Mother, Daughter, Waiting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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