Presses Quotes - Page 33

• It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities - life is worth living, and then out of sinful curiosity you open a newspaper. You are disillusioned and wrecked.

  Patrick Kavanagh

  Reality, Curiosity, Enthusiasm

  Patrick Kavanagh (1973). “Collected Pruse”

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• The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the Press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives. A person imprisoned by these schemes is like a plant in a flowerpot too small for it he cannot grow or mature.

  Octavio Paz

  Mother, School, Reality

  Octavio Paz (1985). “The Labyrinth of Solitude: And the Other Mexico ; Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; The Philanthropic Ogre”, p.25, Grove Press

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• If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.

  Meg Greenfield

  Mother, Years, Political

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• Despotism and freedom of the press cannot exist together.

  Leon Gambetta

  Political, Together, Despotism

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• The press lives on disaster.

  Clement Attlee

  Political, Politics, Disaster

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• My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material.

  Jean M. Auel

  Romance, Fiction, Magazines

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• I would support a Presidential candidate who pledged to take the following steps: ... At the end of the war in the Persian Gulf, press for a comprehensive Middle East settlement and for a 'new world order' based not on Pax Americana but on peace through law with a stronger U.N. and World Court.

  George McGovern

  War, Order, Law

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• Women really must have equal pay for equal work, equality in work at home, and reproductive choices. Men must press for these things also. They must cease to see them as "women's issues" and learn that they are everyone's issues - essential to survival on planet Earth.

  Erica Jong

  Home, Learning, Men

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• Why is the press America's showcase for freedom? Because just about everything else has been regulated.

  Cullen Hightower

  America, Political, Showcase

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• I am still on stage. If you read Press...you would believe that I should be gone. But here I am doing it and DOING IT WELL!

  Rudolf Nureyev

  Believe, Here I Am, Ballet

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• I don't expect the press to say thank you for the efforts that I make.

  Ari Fleischer

  Thank You, Effort, Saying Thank You

  "Reliable Sources" with Howard Kurtz, www.cnn.com. June 1, 2003.

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• We were the victims of the new producer but what annoyed me was they told the press we were leaving before us.

  Louise Jameson

  Annoyed, Leaving, Annoying

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• [The press] said to me yesterday 'How does it feel to be called anorexic?' and I had no idea that I was. I'm not saying there aren't people in the film industry that suffer from it, because I am sure that there are. But I'm quite sure I don't have it.

  Keira Knightley

  Ideas, Yesterday, People

  "Keira Knightley Dismisses Weight Criticism" by Katie Pisa, Stephen M. Silverman, people.com. July 4, 2006.

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• Recently, I was in Africa monitoring elections when right on the street, this guy started beating a woman. I got out of my car, pulled her inside and drove her to the hospital. But after the doctors treated her, she was too afraid to press charges. I've seen this over and over in America, too.

  Barbara Lee

  America, Doctors, Car

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• The reason why I spend so much money for my journals is to press me to find something valuable to put in them.

  Jim Rohn

  Entrepreneur, Information, Reason Why

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 20, 2015

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• If I had killed somebody, it wouldn't have had so much appeal to the press, you see? But f-ing, you see, and the young girls. Judges want to f- young girls. Juries want to f- young girls. Everyone wants to f- young girls!

  Roman Polanski

  Girl, Judging, Want

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• A critical, independent and investigative press is the lifeblood of any democracy. The press must be free from state interference. It must have the economic strength to stand up to the blandishments of government officials. It must have sufficient independence from vested interests to be bold and inquiring without fear or favour. It must enjoy the protection of the constitution, so that it can protect our rights as citizens.

  Nelson Mandela

  Independent, Government, Rights

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from May 03, 2014

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• President Bush deliberately did not apologize for things and that’s because advisers around him, including those there, felt that the press corps would jump on that and down his throat in a way that he couldn’t recover from. So, especially on the war he was very careful on that line.

  David Gregory

  War, President, Lines

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• Let me go back to a comfortable analogy for me - sports... basketball. I use it because you're naive if you don't see the national full-court press picking away right now: A good point guard drives through a full court press, protecting the ball, keeping her eye on the basket... and she knows exactly when to pass the ball so that the team can WIN.

  Sarah Palin

  Basketball, Sports, Team

  “Quitting Is Like Playing Basketball With Dead Fish” by Amelie Gillette, www.avclub.com. July 6, 2009.

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• I want to make a toast to all at this press event who agree with Thomas Jefferson, who said that our liberty depends on the freedom of the press. So I want to lift a glass to those who defend that freedom. Our finest, the men and women in uniform who defend that freedom, our Constitution, and our exceptional way of life in America.

  Sarah Palin

  Men, America, Glasses

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• There are moments of despair that come sometimes, when night sets in and a white fog presses against the windows. Then our house changes its shape, rears up and becomes a place of despair. Then fear and rage run simply--and the thought of Death as a friend. This is the simplest of thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.

  Stevie Smith

  Running, Night, Fog

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• First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully.

  John Yoo

  War, Rights, Needs

  "Obama releases internal Bush Justice Department memos" by Terry Frieden, www.cnn.com. March 2, 2009.

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• If you seek to help, join the open source community and fight to keep the spirit of the press alive and the internet free. I have been to the darkest corners of government, and what they fear is light.

  Edward Snowden

  Fighting, Light, Government

  "How I Met Edward Snowden" by Glenn Greenwald, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 13, 2014.

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• The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports them as fact, or treats elected officials with a reverence reserved for royalty, cannot be accurately described as engaged in any other function.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Government Lies, Political, Deceit

  Glenn Greenwald (2007). “A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency”, p.119, Crown

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• At Facebook, we're inspired by technologies that have revolutionized how people spread and consume information. We often talk about inventions like the printing press and the television - by simply making communication more efficient, they led to a complete transformation of many important parts of society. They gave more people a voice. They encouraged progress. They changed the way society was organized. They brought us closer together.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Communication, Technology, Voice

  "Mark Zuckerberg's Letter To Investors: 'The Hacker Way'". www.wired.com. February 1, 2012.

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