Sound Bites Quotes

• 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 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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• 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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• In this age of micro-blogging and two second sound bites, almost no one has the attention span, or time, to read more than a few sentences.

  Tim Frick

  Two, Marketing, Age

  Tim Frick (2013). “Return on Engagement: Content, Strategy and Design Techniques for Digital Marketing”, p.173, Taylor & Francis

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• It's a sound bite. It's very of this age, because that's what people want.

  Jack White

  People, Age, Sound

  "Jack White: Lady Gaga’s Music Is ‘All Image With No Meaning Behind It’" By Treye Green, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 4, 2012.

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• If Americans want to see results instead of rhetoric, if taxpayers would like solutions instead of sound bites, and hard work instead of horse trading, I suggest you take a short look, and it won't take much longer, at the accomplishments of this Congress.

  Alcee Hastings

  Horse, Hard Work, Accomplishment

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• Courtney Love is a loose cannon. She says what she thinks. She's wild on the red carpet. You get the best sound bites from Courtney Love.

  Steven Cojocaru

  Love Is, Thinking, Sound

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• I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.

  Leon Kass

  Sound, My Thoughts, Bites

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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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• The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

  Carl Sagan

  Ignorance, Media, Sound

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.49, Ballantine Books

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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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• 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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• I am not a sound bite person. I prefer to run at the mouth.

  Marina Sirtis

  Running, Sound, Mouths

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• There are a few critics overseas, and occasionally a critic will write an astute analysis of the movie. There is value in reading critics that actually have something intelligent to say, but the journalistic community lives in a world of sound bites and literary commerce: selling newspapers, selling books, and they do that simply by trashing things. They don't criticize or analyze them. They simply trash them for the sake of a headline, or to shock people to get them to buy whatever it is they're selling.

  George Lucas

  Book, Reading, Writing

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• A sound-bite culture can't discuss science very well. Exactly what we're losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can't be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Evening, Causes, Sound

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.116, Faber & Faber

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• When you are dealing with a mass movement, as opposed to a quote-unquote "elite," you are talking to people who don't have time to read long research papers. You have to communicate with them in sound bites, around every other thing they are doing. So it takes a long time to shift people from one message to the next, especially if your foundational narrative was, "The only one thing in the entire world you should be paying attention to is Darfur."

  Rebecca Hamilton

  Talking, Long, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I love all people. I hate no one. And, you know, when you take a subject and you reduce it to something like a four-second sound bite, and a check mark on a ballot, I think that that's inappropriate and insensitive.

  Kirk Cameron

  Hate, Thinking, People

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• Speaking of Twitter, I don't even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into cute 140-character sound bites. I used to only worry about being pithy for a living; now some of my best lines are wasted on a free app!

  Diablo Cody

  Cute, Character, Worry

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• It's dangerous talking about yourself too much because you find yourself talking in sound bites.

  Emily Mortimer

  Talking, Finding Yourself, Sound

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• I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Silly, Issues

  "Barack Obama Speech Text: Read The President’s Democratic Convention Remarks", www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

  Salman Rushdie

  Religion, Sound, One Sentence

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• You don't send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like 'shooting an unarmed child,' when that 'child' was beating him bloody.

  Thomas Sowell

  Children, Media, People

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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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• She blew out a breath between gritted teeth. “Sometimes I really want to”—a frustrated sound—“bite you!” He froze. “I might let you.” “I won’t do it if you’d enjoy it.

  Nalini Singh

  Frustrated, Sound, Teeth

  Nalini Singh (2011). “Kiss of Snow”, p.216, Penguin

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• Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings. Following complex story lines stretches our brains beyond the 140 characters of sound-bite thinking, and staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.

  Ann Patchett

  Reading, Character, Mean

  "And the Winner Isn’t..." by Ann Patchett, www.nytimes.com. April 17, 2012.

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