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• I just say what I think is the funniest thing I could say. I'm not trying to make headlines. I'm just trying to say the stuff that I think is funny and will make people laugh.

  Amy Schumer

  Thinking, People, Laughing

  Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. October 03, 2012.

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• Radio is better than writing because they can't lie. Cause sometimes writers be straight lying, bro, and these headlines be making me mad.

  Vince Staples

  Lying, Writing, Mad

  "Earl Sweatshirt On RZA Day, His Purpose And Paul McCartney". "Microphone Check" with Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Frannie Kelley, www.npr.org. November 20, 2013.

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• Solyndra will be remembered in the history books as a sad hallmark of a newly installed administration that felt it was above the rules, lusting for positive headlines rather than focused on delivering results.

  Fred Upton

  Book, Lust, Administration

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• It'd make a wonderful change to have the leader of a pluralist democracy who acted on that, who told people just how tough things are going to be, just what's going to have to be done - and, maybe, ran all the risks on the side of honesty, rather than spinning stories and trying to win the headlines every day.

  Chris Patten

  Honesty, Winning, People

  "Interviews With Michael Bloomberg, Madeleine Albright". "GPS" with Fareed Zakaria, transcripts.cnn.com. November 2, 2008.

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• I know there's a lot of competition in the world of magazines and newspapers and we have to make headlines and be sensational and sell, and saying bad things about me is going to sell more papers than writing good things about me.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Writing, Competition, Magazines

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Miracles happen in silence... lesser important things create world headlines.

  Silent lotus

  Life, Silence, Miracle

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• I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call 'contemporary headline horror,' stuff that is true crime or for one reason or another catches our attention in the media, those strange cases that we end up obsessing about. I'm always influenced by weird anecdotes and news.

  Dan Chaon

  Media, Stuff, Anecdotes

  "Staying Awake with Dan Chaon". Interview with Clare Stein, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 6, 2012.

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• Google and others truncate headlines at 70 characters. On the Manti Teo story, Deadspin's scoop fell down the Google search results, overtaken by copycat stories with simpler headlines. Deadspin's headline was 118 characters. Vital information - 'hoax' - was one of the words that was cut off.

  Nick Denton

  Character, Cutting, Google

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• Republicans say that sex is bad, because with them it always is. It is!...I'm sorry, but they're just doughy, asexual, wonky, white people, and if you had to have sex with them it would be over in an excruciating three minutes. It's just, - and from the headlines of the past year I gather the only sex they're really good at, is gay sex. Really.

  Bill Maher

  Sex, Sorry, Gay

  "Bill Maher: The Decider". Documentary, Comedy, 2007.

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• When I started writing this blog more than years ago, it was in response to traditional media's habit of twisting interviews to fit the headlines they wanted to create.

  Mark Cuban

  Funny, Writing, Thoughtful

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• Headlines don't sell papes. Newsies sell papes.

  Jack Kelly

  Sells

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• If you only have one shot at writing a headline, there's a lot of pressure.

  Eli Pariser

  Writing, Pressure, Shots

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• Exposed! shines a harsh light on the myriad horrors of modern society and reports back from the fearful frontlines with wicked wit and paranoid power. From the murky waters of New Orleans to the scarred psyches of our own image-obsessed existence, Exposed! is the last headline we get to read before reality comes tumbling down.

  Jeremy Robert Johnson

  Reality, Psych, Tumbling Down

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• Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy, they will headline that tragedy.

  Harry Allen Overstreet

  Fighting, Play, Tragedy

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• With old inflation riding the headlines, I have read till I am bleary-eyed, and I can't get head from tails of the whole thing. ... Now we are living in an age of explanations-and plenty of 'em, too-but no two things that's been done to us have been explained twice the same way, by even the same man. It's and age of in one ear and out the other.

  Will Rogers

  Science, Men, Two

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• Virtually the entire inflow was therefore Asiatic, and all but three or four thousand of that inflow originated from the Indian subcontinent... It is by 'black Power' that the headlines are caught, and under the shape of the negro that the consequences for Britain of immigration and what is miscalled 'race' are popularly depicted. Yet it is more truly when he looks into the eyes of Asia that the Englishman comes face to face with those who will dispute with him the possession of his native land.

  Enoch Powell

  Eye, Race, Land

  "Still to Decide" by Enoch Powell, Eliot Right Way Books, (p. 209), 1972.

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• Let the other fellow get the headlines. I'll take the laws.

  Sam Rayburn

  Law, Fellows

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• there are people who are born superficial ... They prefer not to have to deal with more than a limited number of oversimplified ideas - they prefer the book reviews to the books, the headlines and the leading paragraph to the full report, the generalization to the facts, and the negative to the positive.

  Gwethalyn Graham

  Book, Ideas, Numbers

  Gwethalyn Graham (1944). “Earth and High Heaven”, Philadelphia and New York : J.B. Lippincott

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• I speak to kids 16, 17 years old, they haven't read a newspaper. They haven't physically handled a newspaper. They don't even look at the headlines on a subway. These kids are on the Internet and the level of news that they're getting is not the quality of 'The New York Times' or 'The Wall Street Journal.' It's way deficient, and they don't care.

  Harvey Weinstein

  New York, Wall, Kids

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. April 28, 2011.

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• Operating-room errors hold a special terror for patients, if only because they seem like the most avoidable kind of complications. The occasional horror stories of patients who have the wrong leg removed or the wrong knee replaced generate the most headlines, as do tales of patients whose identities are mixed up entirely.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Horror Stories, Errors, Identity

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• When I gain a pound it's in the headlines.

  Kim Kardashian

  Gains, Pounds

  "'People don't understand the pressure on me to look perfect': Kim Kardashian fears her career is over after being diagnosed with psoriasis" by Andrea Magrath, www.dailymail.co.uk. July 26, 2011.

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• I've got some crazy, stupid big goals. I really wanna headline arenas. I wanna have such a big crew that we've got to have 20 or 30 buses on the road because that's how big the show we're putting on is.

  Hunter Hayes

  Stupid, Crazy, Goal

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• I don't want that to be the headline.

  Terrell Owens

  Want

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• When NASA makes discoveries they are profound and they make headlines, everyone takes notice. It drives dialogue and, today, it would drive the blogosphere. It would drive the projects the kids do in school. So you wouldn't even need programs to try and stimulate curiosity. You wouldn't need programs to try to convince people that science literacy is good. Because they're going to want to participate on this epic adventure that we call space exploration.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  School, Adventure, Kids

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• That's our nuclear weapons strategy [going to frighten people], as of the early post-Cold War years. And I think this is a real failure of the intellectual community, including scholarship and the media. It's not like you had headlines all over the place. And it's not secret, the documents are there. And I think that's probably the right picture.

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, War, Thinking

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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