Media Quotes - Page 36

• You're turned in to the biggest balls of them all, DJ Suk T Nutts.

  Snoop Dogg

  Art, Balls, Entertainment

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• Power will be maintained by the groovy guy or gal who gets the most media coverage for his sleaze. Naturally, his friends in various businesses will do okay, too.

  Frank Zappa

  Guy, Politics, Gals

  Song: The Central Scrutinizer

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• A conservative party that reshapes its self-presentation according to the suggestions of the liberal media, of course, may very well get what such lack of courage deserves. Having been told by their opponents for years that the key to Republican victory was a softening of the message and more smiles, Republicans have now apparently taken a big dose of this medicine. One might counsel more caution in accepting medicine from one's enemies.

  Alan Keyes

  Taken, Party, Liberal Media

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• I think there's something unfortunate about the attention that performers get in our media, but the weight of government propaganda is so heavy that anyone with a different point of view who has access to the media has a responsibility to use it.

  David Clennon

  Responsibility, Thinking, Views

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• Hard rock may have faded from the media for a time, but I've always been able to make a living, if not in America, then in the rest of the world.

  David Coverdale

  America, Rocks, World

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• The trouble is that right now I want to put as much work into football as I can. It's very important for me to get off to a good start. By the same token, I feel a responsibility to handle the media and those sort of things.

  Doug Flutie

  Football, Responsibility, Important

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• I think opera has gained a kind of glamorous appeal. It's a live performance that aligns all of the arts, and when it is represented in the media, in film in particular, it is presented as something that is really a special event, whether it's a great date or something that's just hugely romantic.

  Renee Fleming

  Art, Thinking, Special

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• But you're never taught in schools - we don't teach anyone in public schools that government is the problem. We don't teach anyone in college that government is the problem - except maybe a handful of sort of unique, conservative schools. But mainstream media never talks as if government is the problem.

  Jonah Goldberg

  School, Unique, College

  "Do Liberals Live Under A 'Tyranny Of Cliches'?". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 2, 2012.

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• One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group.

  Lesley Garrett

  Artist, Groups, Attention

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• Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live.

  Todd Gitlin

  Psychics, Way To Live, Goods

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• I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.

  Todd Gitlin

  Thinking

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• Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.

  Todd Gitlin

  Navigation, Immensity, Manage

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• I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media.

  Todd Gitlin

  Writing, Thinking, Important

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• We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy.

  David Hackworth

  Military, War, Enemy

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• I suddenly realized that in order to do what I wanted to do, I had to become that which I hated - which is the head of a record company or a digital media conglomerate - and just do whatever you want.

  Dhani Harrison

  Order, Digital, Records

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

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• At times when you're adapting a book into a movie, you have to take certain creative liberties to bridge the gap between the two forms of media.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Book, Bridges, Two

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• You can get on with your job. I'm going to get on with mine. And mine is to deliver for the people of Northern Ireland, that's what they expect from me and I'm not going to be deflected by interesting academic or media speculation or attempts to take the whole debate back.

  Peter Hain

  Jobs, People, Interesting

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• It used to be that artists thought of nature as their environment. Now media is our environment. It has been for the past 50, 70 years. It's what you see on TV, on the computer, what is in the magazines and newspapers.

  Richard Hell

  Past, Artist, Years

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• At 27 or so I thought, you know, I actually do really want to make money and have a proper life, and I don't want to be a loser. I know! I'll go to university and get a proper degree and maybe get a job in media... I went and did an English degree.

  Sharon Horgan

  Jobs, Degrees, Want

  "The funniest woman you've never heard of" by Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2007.

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• Comedy and drama are less ageist media for women than stuff like light entertainment. But in TV or film, women have to be more pleasing on the eye than men.

  Sharon Horgan

  Drama, Eye, Men

  "Sharon Horgan: 'There is a black streak in everything I've done'". Interview With Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2012.

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• We are strangely biased, as individuals and media institutions, to focus on big sudden changes, whether good or bad - amazing breakthroughs, such as a new gadget that gets released, or catastrophic failures, like a plane crash.

  Steven Johnson

  Focus, Gadgets, Sudden Change

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• We accept so many things that come through the media; we get used to them, however vigilant we are. But for any creative art, you have to remain 110% conscious, and in a world that's losing consciousness, that's getting harder.

  Keith Jarrett

  Art, Creative, World

  "There is no plan" by John Fordham, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2006.

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• The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.

  Ma Jian

  Apology, People, Chinese

  "China’s Olympic Crossroads: Author Ma Jian on Beijing, Spectacle and Reality". Interview with Flora Zhang, beijing2008.blogs.nytimes.com. August 5, 2008.

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• I can't say I'm not nervous at all with media and doing speeches, but I'm getting used to it and better at it, hopefully.

  Lydia Ko

  Speech, Nervous, Used

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• Before, I was like 'Oh my God, I have to do this media, this media and this media,' but now I've learned these are stages you need to go through. If you play really good golf, you're going to get more media attention and more interest in you, and you'll get more confident handling it.

  Lydia Ko

  Golf, Play, Needs

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