Sound Bites Quotes

• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Leadership, Bullying

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1933 See Francis Bacon 7; Montaigne 4; Thoreau 16; Wellington 3

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• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man.

  Pat Paulsen

  Fear, Breast Cancer, Men

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• The danger with running for president is sooner or later some sound bite is going hit.

  Darrell Hammond

  Running, President, Sound

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• Everything comes to us in fifteen-second sound bites and photo opportunities. All possibility for ambiguity - the most precious trait of any adequate analysis - is erased.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Opportunity, Sound, Analysis

  Stephen Jay Gould (1991). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• I'm so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Giving, Sound, Host

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• It is very difficult to give a 15 second sound bite on why there is pain and suffering in this world and not have it come off as being flippant or surface level or superficial.

  Lee Strobel

  Pain, Giving, Suffering

  "Interview: Lee Strobel Makes Case for Faith ... Again". Interview with Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. September 25, 2008.

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• Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Jobs, Struggle, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that's happened in American political life.

  John Silber

  Political, Sound, Propaganda

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• The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.

  Kato Kaelin

  Stupid, Media, Sound

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• By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do.

  Sydney Pollack

  Hero, Mean, Thinking

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• A lot of the stuff I've accumulated over the last few years of touring I thought was really interesting. Like sounds, sound bites, and beats even, but they weren't good dance beats they weren't ones anyone would want to rap over or anything.

  Kid Koala

  Rap, Years, Interesting

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• Today enormous effort goes into convincing the American public that we're just consumers of media manipulation and sound-bites and spin doctors. That we care only about ourselves, money, and stuff. That acting out of passion and conviction doesn't make a difference. But all history shows that it does.

  Bernardine Dohrn

  Passion, Media, Differences

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• The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You look at it, you get it - it's as immediate and as superficial as that.

  Matthew Collings

  Art, Mass Culture, Sound

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• We are such a sound-bite culture; people are so accustomed to flipping through their television so quickly that we only have just a few seconds to grab someone's attention.

  Max Lucado

  People, Culture, Attention

  Source: www.preaching.com

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• I think I'm able to reach a lot of folks, despite the fact that the conventional news media sometimes says, "You know, this speech is too long," or "It's too complicated," or "He needs to have better sound bites," or what have you.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Media, Long

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• Translating Candide into tweets has really deepened my appreciation of his writing - it wouldn't work so well with nineteenth-century authors. Every single sentence in Voltaire seems to advance the story, and yet stand alone as a sound-bite.

  Mark Ravenhill

  Appreciation, Writing, Stories

  Source: voltairefoundation.wordpress.com

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• What was this big sound bite, though, at the time? It was, "Will Donald Trump and his supporters accept the election results." He won.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Sound, Election Results, Accepting

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Jennifer Palmieri going after Kellyanne Conway and the first sound bite is a discussion of Steve Bannon and what a reprobate the Clinton people think he is and how dare you have somebody like that on your team. How dare you campaign on white supremacism. Jennifer Palmieri starts it off.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Team, Thinking, White

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Nobody wants a nanny state, where the government is stamping out initiative and telling us what to do, but the idea that the only alternative to that is to throw the American people overboard into a global economy with no protections to cushion us from some of these blows is absurd on its face. That's why I think there's been a concerted effort to distort my message. When you hear me speak beyond the sound bites taken out of context, I think I make a lot of sense to people, even those in Red States like the one where I grew up.

  Van Jones

  Taken, Blow, Thinking

  Source: aalbc.com

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• We know where the television is - everything has to be a sound bite; everything has to be an image; ideas are okay as long as they don't take more than four or five seconds to explain; candidates and issues are commodities that are sold like cans of soup; entertainment is limited to what a few people believe the lowest common denominator is; and you can't talk back to it.

  Howard Rheingold

  Believe, Ideas, Issues

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• As the heated debate continues, it will be important that nonproliferation experts play a critical role in the discourse. Science-based statements, not snarky sound bites, should be the weapons of choice.

  David Corn

  Play, Choices, Important

  "The Iranian Nuclear Deal: What the Experts Are Saying" by David Corn, www.motherjones.com. April 3, 2015.

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• It's time that we move from good words to good works, from sound bites to sound solutions.

  Hillary Clinton

  Moving, Sound, Politics

  "Today on the Presidential Campaign Trail". www.foxnews.com. February 20, 2008.

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• When I'm on TV, I'm often talking to a conservative host. I may have another conservative arguing with me. You've got very limited time, and you're using 'sound-bite' type language.

  Juan Williams

  Talking, Sound, Limited Time

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• Looking back, I still can't believe how unprofessional the news media was. So much spin, so few hard facts. All those digestible sound bites from an army of 'experts' all contradicting one another, all trying to seem more 'shocking' and 'in-depth' than the last one. It was all so confusing, nobody seemed to know what to do.

  Max Brooks

  Believe, Army, Media

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.122, Broadway Books

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• I find it quite hard to sum up my relationship in a sound bite. I feel that it trivializes it for other people's pleasure. It's an adventure.

  Emily Blunt

  Travel, Adventure, People

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