Media Quotes - Page 36

• I've got people handling the media. I employ at the moment two people. No-one is paying income tax on the money they use to employ people.

  Ken Livingstone

  Two, People, Income

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• I had a teacher, he was 86 years old and his name was Luigi in New York City, and he said, 'Never stop moving. You get to reinvent yourself.' So you have to find ways to reinventing yourself. Especially today, because it's a whole different market - social media is so important.

  Ben Vereen

  Teacher, New York, Moving

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• I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better media means better surveillance. Cams are everywhere.

  Bruce Sterling

  Mean, Thinking, Surveillance

  "Big Brother and the Next 50 years". Interview with Declan McCullagh, www.cnet.com. June 05, 2003.

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• The media in America is not covering American AIDS very much. They're covering African AIDS as if somehow miraculously it's all stopped here. Well, it hasn't, and the one thing they're not saying about Africa is that all those people are going to die; there's no way these people can be saved - none.

  Larry Kramer

  America, People, Covering

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• In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public spectacles. If every private life is now potentially public property, it is because private property has undermined public responsibility.

  Terry Eagleton

  Responsibility, Life Is, Wealth

  "Leveson inquiry: the frontiers of privacy" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2011.

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• Especially in football, it is not a QB's game... even though the media likes to make it into that - it takes the whole team.

  Joe Montana

  Football, Team, Games

  "Interview: Joe Montana blood pressure". www.askmen.com.

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• Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  Sheep, Gdp, Want

  "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.

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• Social media allows me to pick my times for social interaction.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Social, Interaction, My Time

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• I think track is still one of the most exciting participant sports, but we haven't been able to capitalize on that excitement through television and the print media.

  Bob Beamon

  Sports, Thinking, Print Media

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• My reputation is a media creation.

  John Lydon

  Reputation, Creation

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• At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and have it go unchallenged.

  David Puttnam

  Moguls, Corporations, West

  "Post-Leveson, the press must become as accountable as the rest of us" by David Puttnam, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2012.

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• In the U.K., the history of regulation, certainly regulation of the media, is one in which, time and again, successive governments lacked the 'bottle' to enforce the powers that were available to them.

  David Puttnam

  Government, Bottles, Regulation

  "Post-Leveson, the press must become as accountable as the rest of us" by David Puttnam, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2012.

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• 21 years as CEO is a long time. I was and probably still am the longest serving CEO in America. Certainly I am in the media industry, bar none.

  Michael Eisner

  Years, America, Long

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• It's no mystery why many of us in the media can't get enough of the fabricators Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass, the latter of whom concocted more than a score of bogus feature stories for the New Republic (and who wrote for other magazines, including this one, once) in the mid-1990s. Anyone--journalist, student, academic--who has ever stared at a blank screen, their brains grinding emptiness, and thought, How can I fill this hole? knows that in those desperate moments before a deadline, almost anyone can do almost anything: make stuff up, plagiarize, scribble senseless half-truths.

  David Edelstein

  Glasses, Brain, Republic

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• I'm not one of those actors who needs the media spotlight all the time to feel gratified. I'm happy to do one project a year and take the rest of the year off as long as that project is special.

  Macaulay Culkin

  Years, Long, Special

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

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• Sooner rather than later, any other form other than digital media will be a thing of the past. It won't vanish, but let's face it, this is seemingly the way of the future.

  Billy Gibbons

  Past, Way, Faces

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• I'm worried about the traditional media, but I think the new media is a plus for democracy.

  Bob Brown

  Thinking, Democracy, Worried

  "Bob Brown and the media: 'I'll take them on ... they've crossed the line'". Interview with John Keane, theconversation.com. June 2, 2011.

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• Look, the media are trapped by changes in the technology and business of their industry.

  David Frum

  Technology, Looks, Industry

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• There was a time when the FCC tried to require a certain amount of television and media to be educational, a certain amount to be newsworthy and a certain amount of it to be public access.

  Montel Williams

  Educational, Fcc, Television

  "Montel Williams...still the talk of the town". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• One of the things that I'm really proud of is that I have really good timing. It's very easy for me to see what's coming up and it's no coincidence that I went headfirst into wine and then headfirst into new media - none at all.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Wine, Proud, Timing

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• I'm raising a child, and it's public. The media creates these dramas, and that's not what's happening in my life.

  Bridget Moynahan

  Children, Drama, Happenings

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

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• At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.

  Danica McKellar

  Passion, College, Risk

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• The bad news for journalists today is that the media, however seriously people who are in the public eye take it, is not taken as seriously as it once was - by the public.

  Alastair Campbell

  Taken, Eye, People

  "A crisis of credibility" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2008.

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• Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.

  Alastair Campbell

  Views, People, Office

  "The Bill Clinton I knew" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2004.

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• I can assure you that I have never used my media companies for propaganda, and I will never do so.

  Youssou N'Dour

  Propaganda, Used, Company

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