Hype Quotes - Page 6

• In my opinion, the president is right to address future funding, even though Social Security will show a surplus through 2018 and will not run out of funds until 2042.

  Nick Clooney

  Running, President, Addresses

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• He's looking for the president's kidnapped daughter; everybody he calls on to help him is busy, but lo and behold, you look across the room, and I'm waiting for that action.

  Derek Luke

  Mother, Daughter, Waiting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.

  Hugo Black

  Responsibility, Government, Land

  "New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713". The U.S. Supreme Court case No. 1873, supreme.justia.com. June 30, 1971.

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• They say don't believe your own hype, but if you don't why would anyone else? To be great you have to believe you can do great things.

  Charley Johnson

  Inspiring, Believe, Great Things

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• Once you look past the hype, actors are nothing more than fugitives from reality who specialize in contradiction: we are both children and hardened adults—wide-eyed pupils and jaded working stiffs.

  Bruce Campbell

  Children, Past, Reality

  Bruce Campbell (2015). “If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B-Movie Actor”, p.317, Macmillan

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• I don't want to believe my own hype. I want to stay hungry and stay eager and be the best that I can be.

  Christina Aguilera

  Believe, Want, My Own

  "Christina Aguilera Dismisses Tabloid 'Trash,' Calls Simon Cowell a 'Dick' at Industry Event" by Ryan Downey, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 25, 2012.

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• Grunge was so self-consciously lowbrow and nonaspirational that it seemed, at first, impervious to the hype and glamour normally applied swiftly to any emerging trend. But sure enough, grunge anthems found their way onto the soundtracks of television commercials, and Dodge Neons were hawked by kids in flannel shirts saying, 'Whatever.'

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Kids, Television Commercials, Self

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• Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

  Henry Adams

  Men, Simplicity, Mistress

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.432, Booklassic

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• People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Lying, People, Deception

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.44, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

  John Tillotson

  Art, Deception, Deceit

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• I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit.

  Lucien Bouchard

  Betrayal, Expression, Deceit

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• The whole music business in the United States is based on numbers, based on unit sales and not on quality. It's not based on beauty, it's based on hype and it's based on cocaine. It's based on giving presents of large packages of dollars to play records on the air.

  Frank Zappa

  Numbers, Air, Play

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• The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

  Lord Acton

  Party, Democracies Have, Majority Rule

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.103, Jazzybee Verlag

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• All war is based on deception.

  Sun Tzu

  Peace, War, Deception

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• I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

  Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

  Sarcastic, Art, Truth

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• I remember the day we were hanging around the band's commune and Roger came in with the press kit for a rock band (Moby Grape) any of us had ever seen. It looked psychedelic, yet it was done by ad people. I believe the word "hype" was coined on that very day.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Humorous, Believe, Rocks

  Cynthia Heimel (2002). “If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?!”, p.187, Grove Press

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• It is true, I worry about the hype. The only person more over-hyped than me is you.

  Barack Obama

  Funny, Sarcastic, Worry

  CNN Larry King Live, transcripts.cnn.com. October 19, 2006.

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• At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud.

  David Cameron

  Cutting, Errors, Decision

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• Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Obscure, Intention, Deceptive

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• But get it while you're here boy, cause all that hype don't feel the same next year boy.

  Drake

  Success, Humble, Boys

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• And what I'm telling you now is not for you to go out and try the same ways I try, or not to even try my technique. Just put it to your personality, put it to yourself, and you develop your workout. Cause those books and things, those are other people's gimmicks and hypes. Build your own gimmick and hype, and that'll make you a better powerlifter. Not just doin' it like James does it, cause if you try to fly off the building like superman you'll be out there in the middle of the street.

  Big James Henderson

  Workout, Book, People

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• Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.

  Johann Gottfried Seume

  Deception, Earth, Common

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• The easiest person to deceive is one's self.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Truth, Honesty, Self

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• I've spent a lot of time researching the subject and government deception. So to be involved in Star Trek is perfect for me. I enjoy meeting the fans and discussing my interests with them.

  Dwight Schultz

  Stars, Government, Perfect

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• The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.

  Xunzi

  Believe, Animal, Men

  Xunzi (1999). “Xunzi”

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