Presses Quotes - Page 35

When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered.

Christopher Dodd

Rights, Risk, Liberty

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I've never got on with the British press because they've always given me such a hard time. Once they build a band up they just want to do people down. They shouldn't concentrate on the colour of someone's shirt they should listen to the music.

Andrew Eldritch

Hard Times, People, Band

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One of the stories I love is how Gutenberg’s printing press set off this interesting chain reaction, where all of a sudden people across Europe noticed for the first time that they were farsighted, and needed spectacles to read books (which they hadn’t really noticed before books became part of everyday life); which THEN created a market for lens makers, which then created pools of expertise in crafting lenses, which then led people to tinker with those lenses and invent the telescope and microscope, which then revolutionized science in countless ways.

Steven Johnson

Book, Love Is, Europe

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If there were a button I could press, I would sacrifice myself without hesitating, if it meant millions of people would die.

Pentti Linkola

Sacrifice, People, Buttons

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It is often said that Americans have no sense of history. Ask a college student who Jimmy Carter was and they will likely reply that he was a general in the Civil War, which occurred in 1492, when Americans dumped tea into the Gulf of Tonkin, sparking the First World War, which ended with the invasion of Grenada and the development of the cotton press.

J. Maarten Troost

War, College, Tea

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How many snapshots in the world were actually just-after shots, the moment that elicited the shooter to press the button never captured; instead, the detritus just following, the laughter, the reaction, the ripples.

Reif Larsen

Laughter, Buttons, Snapshots

Reif Larsen (2010). “The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel”, p.137, Penguin

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I don't keep it secret that I live with my partner Gio. I'm very proud of my gayness. But there is lots I wouldn't want the press to write about me... it is a matter of regret that being gay is the most interesting thing about me.

Evan Davis

Regret, Writing, Gay

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In a statement to the Associated Press earlier in the year, Jamie Lynn said she didn’t have a boyfriend. She said, ‘I’m keeping my options open.’ And by options, she meant legs.

Chelsea Handler

Years, Legs, Jamie

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Touch is a reciprocal action, a gesture of exchange with the world. To make an impression is also to receive one, and the soles of our feet, shaped by the surfaces they press upon, are landscapes themselves with their own worn channels and roving lines. They perhaps most closely resemble the patterns of ridge and swirl revealed when a tide has ebbed over flat sand

Robert Macfarlane

Feet, World, Lines

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The book of the moment often has immense vogue, while the book of the age, which comes in its company from the press, lies unnoticed; but the great book has its revenge. It lives to see its contemporary pushed up shelf by shelf until it finds its final resting-place in the garret or the auction room.

Hamilton Wright Mabie

Revenge, Lying, Book

Hamilton Wright Mabie (1893). “My Study Fire”

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Technological change is discontinuous. The monks in their scriptoria did not invent the printing press, horse breeders did not invent the motorcar, and the music industry did not invent the iPod or launch iTunes.

Jason Epstein

Horse, Technological Change, Ipods

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This Golden Globe nomination is sweet validation for the years of hard work it took to bring Coraline to life using stop-motion animation with the greatest crew of animators, artists, and technicians I've ever been privileged to work with. I share this nomination with all of them and we all share our thanks to the Hollywood Foreign Press.

Henry Selick

Sweet, Hard Work, Artist

"Neil Gaiman, Others React to Golden Globe Animation Noms" by Steve Fritz, www.newsarama.com. December 15, 2009.

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Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. America from border to border and coast to coast and all the ships at sea. Let's go to press.

Walter Winchell

America, Sea, Borders

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That two bodies press convulsively together, man and woman, he fertilizing her, he giving her a budding life, or he planting a seed, a seed of life in her womb - Oh God. I think this God-given idea is so enormous, so eternal, so endlessly wise - that people should not be allowed to depict it in art!!

Gustav Vigeland

Wise, Art, Men

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Writing well involves walking the path of most resistance. Sitting still, being patient, allowing the lunatic dream to take shape on the page, then the shaping, the pencil on the page, breathing, slowing down, being willing–no, more than willing, being wide open–to press the bruise until it blossoms.

Dani Shapiro

Dream, Writing, Breathing

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Enclosed within his artificial creation, man finds that there is “no exit”; that he cannot pierce the shell of technology again to find the ancient milieu to which he was adapted for hundreds of thousands of years . In our cities there is no more day or night or heat or cold. But there is overpopulation, thralldom to press and television, total absence of purpose. All men are constrained by means external to them to ends equally external. The further the technical mechanism develops that allows us to escape natural necessity, the more we are subjected to artificial technical necessities.

Jacques Ellul

Mean, Night, Men

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The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations.

Sydney Schanberg

Jobs, Organization, Covering

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There are so many things to take into account - your ambition, your ego, the press, the consumers. You can never be sure that you'll be on top of the pile again.

Giorgio Armani

Ambition, Artist, Ego

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I said, God, the press and people, they just really hate me and I'm really trying. Geraldine Page said, Listen to this, Tab. If people don't like you, that's their bad taste.

Tab Hunter

Hate, Heart, People

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I suspect in most companies, the public relations person is down at No. 20 in the pecking order. But here, he is fighting incredibly important battles. If a negative story starts running away with itself in the press and is not dealt with fast, it can badly damage the brand, and so we put enormous weight on our PR people.

Richard Branson

Running, Fighting, Order

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It is difficult to press forward if we do not know how to obey.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Missionary, Difficult, Know How

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A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on.

Anthony Holden

Couple, Book, Men

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Error, no keyboard. Press F1 to continue.

Woody Allen

Funny, Life, Errors

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The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Provide you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking. The speed with which printing presses and their operators fanned out across Europe is extraordinary. From the single Mainz press of 1457, it took only twenty-three years to establish presses in 110 towns: 50 in Italy, 30 in Germany, 9 in France, 8 in Spain, 8 in Holland, 4 in England, and so on.

James E. Burke

Europe, Years, World

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Humans react to danger when it is immediate, immoral, visible... Global warming does not press any of those buttons.

Daniel Gilbert

Environmental, Buttons, Doe

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