Focus Groups Quotes - Page 2

• The Labor Party is not going to profit from having these proven unsuccessful people around who are frightened of their own shadow and won't get out of bed in the morning unless they've had a focus group report to tell them which side of bed to get out.

  Paul Keating

  Morning, Party, People

  "Lateline" interview, June 7, 2007.

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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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• If you've got somebody in harm's way, you want the president being -- making advice, not -- be given advice by the military, and not making decisions based upon the latest Gallup poll or focus group.

  George W. Bush

  Military, Focus, Decision

  George W. Bush (1982). “Public paper of the presidents of the United States”, p.1467, Government Printing Office

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• When Jesus's followers asked him to teach them to pray, he didn't tell them to divide into focus groups and look deep within their own hearts.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Heart, Focus

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• When we started NFL Films, there were no focus groups, there were no demographic studies, there were no surveys. Every decision that we made, we made with our hearts, not with our heads. And, in the very beginning, we really didn't even have a business plan.

  Steve Sabol

  Heart, Nfl, Focus

  "The "I Am" Q&A". CNBC Interview, www.cnbc.com. June 24, 2012.

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• Because of the spin-meisters and the focus groups and the way politics is run now. It's run by polls and focus groups. So it's even more true today, I think, than it was some 40 years ago.

  Bob Newhart

  Running, Thinking, Years

  Interview with Guy MacPherson, www.guymacpherson.ca. April 14, 2006.

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• About 85 percent of what you see is just because I get on the phone and [say], 'Let's go do this'. I don't do any market research or test groups or focus [groups]. I just go, 'It's my company; would I buy it, personally?'

  Todd McFarlane

  Phones, Focus, Groups

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• To know John Kennedy, as I did, was to understand the true meaning of the word. He understood that courage is not something to be gauged in a poll or located in a focus group. No adviser can spin it. No historian can backdate it. For, in the age old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Focus, Age, Approval

  Remarks by President Gerald R. Ford on Receiving the 2001 Profile in Courage Award, www.jfklibrary.org. May 21, 2001.

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• I don't hide my emotions from people. I am not a focus-group tested, blow-dried candidate or governor.

  Chris Christie

  Blow, People, Focus

  "Christie struggles to distance himself from George Washington Bridge traffic scandal". Interview with Ben Knight, www.abc.net.au. January 10, 2014.

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• We only do what we think is good and what we're happy with. I do that in stand-up, I even do it with my children's books. I don't do market research, I don't have focus groups, I don't care. I don't care if it fails, honestly. I'd rather have something that's completely mine fail than something succeed that I'm not proud of.

  Ricky Gervais

  Children, Book, Thinking

  Interview with Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. January 10, 2007.

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• This deep insecurity has been going on for a while. I mean I picked it up in 2014 sitting in focus groups of women who were feeling terrified, not just about that ISIS was coming, but terrified that their children couldn't be safe at school, terrified about what was happening in Ferguson and other places.

  Chuck Todd

  Children, School, Mean

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• A joke is either funny or it's not funny. If I hear a funny joke, you know what I do? I laugh, that's what I do. I don't start a focus group to see who got hurt by the joke.

  Alonzo Bodden

  Hurt, Laughing, Focus

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• When we conducted focus group interviews in the first municipality in Brazil before initiating the pilot project, a woman commented: Getting an appointment in the public sector municipal health services is like "winning the lottery." I would like to make it possible for many women and men in Latin America to win the lottery and receive the type of reproductive health services they so urgently need.

  Ruth Simmons

  Latin, Winning, Men

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• To me the cynics are the ones in the boardrooms with the reports from the focus groups.

  George Carlin

  Focus, Groups, Reports

  "Stand-up comic - Interview". The Progressive Vol. 65 Nbr., July 7, 2001.

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• You write things that are of interest to you. There's no focus group.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Writing, Focus, Groups

  "Zach Galifianakis: ‘I have no idea’ if FX comedy ‘Baskets’ will work". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. January 19, 2016.

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• I have to write the story I want to write. I never wrote them with a focus group of 8-year-olds in mind. I have to continue telling the story the way I want to tell it.

  J. K. Rowling

  Writing, Years, Focus

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• The good news from the U.S. military survey of focus groups is that Iraqis do accept the Nuremberg principles. They understand that sectarian violence and the other postwar horrors are contained within the supreme international crime committed by the invaders.

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Focus, News

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• If you ever go behind the glass and look at the focus groups that are deciding what you're gonna watch, it's scary. This cross-section of people they just happen to bring in to decide the fate of mankind on television is really scary.

  Adrian Pasdar

  Fate, Glasses, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Don't underestimate the value people place on authenticity. Politicians listen to the focus groups and say the things they think people want to hear. But after 30 years of reading consumers, I know that they can smell phonies.

  Rochelle B Lazarus

  Reading, Thinking, Years

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• With the initial focus groups and the initial look-sees, the Rams are a very popular team in Southern California. And so one of the reasons that it was attractive to us to work against them is because they have that good flavor.

  Jerry Jones

  Team, California, Southern

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