Media Quotes - Page 38

• I think the media loves taking the most absurd clips for a sport that has become congressional politics.

  Kal Penn

  Sports, Thinking, Absurd

  "The GQA: Kal Penn". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.gq.com. November 1, 2011.

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• Appeal to all scholars of stupidity in the world. Come to Italy, this country has the highest rate of morons of the universe, especially among political, bureaucratic, judicial, religious, intellectual, artistic, and mass media members, so it is the best place to develop your own field research.

  William C. Brown

  Country, Religious, Stupidity

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• When I started writing this blog more than years ago, it was in response to traditional media's habit of twisting interviews to fit the headlines they wanted to create.

  Mark Cuban

  Funny, Writing, Thoughtful

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• I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.

  Aaron Levie

  Meaningful, Adversity, Technology

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• I think more things are becoming socially acceptable. I think that just by having more media, whether that's TV or Internet, we're able to see more things.

  Brie Larson

  Thinking, Able, Tvs

  "Brie Larson 21 JUMP STREET Set Visit Interview". Interview with Brendan Bettinger, collider.com. February 15, 2012.

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• Traditional local media are adding local search capabilities to their sites so they can share in the local search traffic and ad revenues in the local markets they serve.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  Share, Traffic, Site

  Marc Ostrofsky (2012). “Get Rich Click: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.

  Tamora Pierce

  Teenager, Book, Dark

  "YA authors Ally Condie and Tamora Pierce". Interview with Amy L. Hayden, www.timeout.com. November 7, 2011.

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• The media dwells mostly on negativity.

  Bill Parcells

  Negativity

  Interview with Steve Serby, nypost.com. August 5, 2012.

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• At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media.

  Sean Parker

  The End Of The Day, Vote, Vulnerable

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• In truth the social media elements of the Obama campaign, while extremely innovative, did not produce a lot of results.

  Sean Parker

  Campaigns, Elements, Social

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• I don't think about the media.

  Zara Phillips

  Thinking

  "London 2012: Zara Phillips deals deftly with media's royal obsession" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2012.

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• Social media has made the web all about me, me, me.

  Erik Qualman

  Social Media, Social, Made

  "Braggarts Take Over The Web". www.businessinsider.com. October 16, 2009.

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• I don't do social media of any kind. If I did, I may as well join Scientology.

  Edward Ruscha

  May, Kind, Social

  "Ed Ruscha on Kerouac, Social Media and Pop Culture in the 1960s". Interview with Tara Solomon, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2012.

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• I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.

  Ian Rankin

  Technology, Opportunity, Thinking

  "Ian Rankin, author - portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2012.

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• I would absolutely love to go back to the simplicity of the '80s, where there wasn't texting, social media, iPhones, or smartphones. I love the fact that you would go home and check your messages. I'm not well suited to the world of modern technology.

  Matthew Rhys

  Home, Technology, Iphone

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• What's brilliant about the United States system of government is separation of power. Not only the executive, legislative, judicial branches, but also the independence of the military from civilians, an independent media and press, an independent central bank.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Military, Independent, Government

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• I grew up with Scientology - my parents at one point were clerical. It's a pragmatic philosophy, not merely a belief system. Yeah, it's had media exposure because certain luminaries do Scientology, but millions of people do it who are not celebrities. It's not a threat or some cult.

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Philosophy, People, Parent

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• Our world is moving at an ever-accelerating pace, and with the advent of social media, what happens in New York now can be reported across the globe 60 seconds later.

  Stuart Rose

  New York, Moving, Our World

  "Sir Stuart Rose on the changing role of business leaders". www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2012.

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• I grew up in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, but I didn't really know I was a deprived, poverty-stricken child until the media made me aware of it.

  Ving Rhames

  Children, Poverty, Grew Up

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

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• Instagram is a media company. I think we're about visual media.

  Kevin Systrom

  Thinking, Instagram, Company

  "This 27-Year-Old Built One Of The Fastest Growing Apps Ever -- Without Spending A Dime On Marketing". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. November 28, 2011.

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• While it has been hurtful to my family and me to read constantly in the media that I was under investigation, I am pleased that as expected my spending has been found to be in order.

  Peter Slipper

  Order, Hurtful, My Family

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• American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds.

  Shane Smith

  Names, Radio, Calling

  "Shane Smith: 'I want to build the next CNN with Vice - it's within my grasp'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2013.

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• If you look not just at the Arab spring, but at what I call the youth spring that has started in Europe, young people are starting to find a voice, and they are not looking to the traditional media to reflect that.

  Shane Smith

  Spring, Europe, Voice

  "Shane Smith: 'I want to build the next CNN with Vice - it's within my grasp'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2013.

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• The media loves negative spin.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Negative

  "Chloe Sevigny on Pauly D, Parodies, and More". Interview with Sam Bellikoff, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 14, 2011.

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• Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.

  David Sanborn

  Instrumental Music, Outlets, Music Is

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