Hype Quotes - Page 2

There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.

Dick Cheney

Gathering, Deceit, Resolution

Remarks by the Vice President to the World Economic Forum, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. January 24, 2004.

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The product has to work. It has to be a good product. An enormous number of them are all hype with no value at all. People get into them because they want to make a lot of quick, easy money.

Brian Tracy

Numbers, People, Want

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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

Jane Austen

Inspiring, Humility, Prejudice

Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.110, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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The studios are making fewer films. They are making more expensive films. Profits are tougher to come by. Not only because of the expense of production. But also because of the expense of promotion and hype. To boil that all down, it's more about hype than it is about filmmaking.

William Friedkin

Film, Promotion, Profit

"EXCLUSIVE: William Friedkin Revisits To Live and Die in L.A. on Blu-ray". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. February 19, 2010.

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Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, Id be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that thats the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because Ive always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.

Flavor Flav

Rap, Enemy, Trying

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As long as I'm giving a little hype, I can't resist saying that Elie [Wiesel] has also written a number of pieces for Bible Review, for which I serve as editor.

Hershel Shanks

Editors, Numbers, Long

Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.

Viggo Mortensen

Thinking, Awards, Two

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No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud.

Bernard Ebbers

Fraud, Committed, Find Me

"Watchdog brands WorldCom report 'wholly inadequate'" by Mark Tran, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2002.

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I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.

Jeanette Winterson

Thinking, People, Deception

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I knock people out. As soon as I land my shots on him, you will see the difference between class and hype. He's been built up and he believes the hype, but I will beat reality into him.

David Haye

Motivation, Believe, Reality

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As befits Silicon Valley, 'big data' is mostly big hype, but there is one possibility with genuine potential: that it might one day bring loans - and credit histories - to millions of people who currently lack access to them.

Evgeny Morozov

Data, People, One Day

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We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.

Oscar Wilde

Regret, Data, Age

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But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers.

Armistead Maupin

Communication, Opportunity, Phones

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Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.

Bryant H. McGill

Lying, Deceived Us, Deceit

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President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.

Ralph Nader

Government, People, Promise

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The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack of preparation for afterwards and the chaos and suffering that continuous - so it won't go away will it?

Clare Short

War, Suffering, Preparation

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Obviously there will be a backlash. If you believe the hype you have to believe a backlash too. Any criticism we get, is always stuff we've already criticized ourselves.

Jonny Greenwood

Believe, Criticism, Stuff

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I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.

Freddie Mercury

Song, Writing, Used

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It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.

Freddie Mercury

Careers, Soul, Talent

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You become very known for being someone's girlfriend, and all of a sudden there's all this hype and buzz for all the wrong reasons.

Sienna Miller

Girlfriend, Buzz, Reason

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The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.

Ralph Neas

Decision, President, Made

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Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?

David Riesman

Taken, Men, America

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I'm completely removed from any hype that comes my way.

Justin Timberlake

Way, My Way

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A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

Harry S. Truman

Leadership, President, Events

Harry S. Truman (1956). “Memoirs: Years of trail and hope”

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When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.

Harry S. Truman

Gun, Honor, President

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