Media Quotes - Page 25

• I don't have anything to hide but what happens is the media tend to beat up what I say.

  Christina Aguilera

  Beats, Happens

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• As a journalist, I'm not supposed to be the subject, but as an author, I'm fair game - another ingredient in the media soup.

  Michael Azerrad

  Games, Soup, Ingredients

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• I do think that the standard media is controlled by the conventional wisdom about global warming. We've come to believe - from reading a lot of articles and talking to a lot of scientists - that there's another side to be heard.

  Steven Levitt

  Wisdom, Believe, Reading

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates?

  Hugh Mackay

  Fall, Games, Violence

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• The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate.

  Hugh Mackay

  Book, Violence, Copycats

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• On several occasions, I discussed with Bill Clinton the subject of inquiries by the media about our relationship. He told me to continue to deny our relationship, that if we would stick together, everything would be okay.

  Gennifer Flowers

  Relationship, Together, Would Be

  "Declaration of Gennifer G. Flowers". www.washingtonpost.com. March 13, 1998.

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• Even with all the negativeness of the whole social media thing, I still think it's leaps and bounds more positive.

  Luke Bryan

  Thinking, Social, Leaps And Bounds

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• People in the media, it makes their day when someone they say is a five-star artist goes platinum.

  Soulja Boy

  Stars, Artist, People

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• When I was in Japan on tour in 2010, I felt like I was 30 years into the future. I love technology and they are so advanced with their phones, computers, everything. I think they had the iPhone way before we did in the U.S. I love gadgets, games, social media and I try to stay ahead on all that stuff, but they get it all first.

  Soulja Boy

  Thinking, Technology, Games

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• I know it's very 'old media' of me to admit this, but I am often unnerved by the lack of civility on the Web.

  Willow Bay

  Civility, Knows

  "Bile in the Blogosphere" by Willow Bay, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 31, 2008.

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• New forms of media - first movies, then television, talk radio and now the Internet - tend to challenge traditional codes of conduct. They flout convention, shake up the status quo and sometimes provoke outrage.

  Willow Bay

  Challenges, Television, Radio

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• America's biggest export is media and I think that's a positive thing.

  Aloe Blacc

  Thinking, America, Positive Things

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• We develop social systems for the handicapped, but when you're handicapped in your mind, society doesn't handle those situations well. I think we don't recognize or acknowledge the power of messages and how deeply affected we all are by the messages we receive from the media.

  Aloe Blacc

  Thinking, Mind, Messages

  "Q+A: Socially conscious crooner Aloe Blacc brings a little heart and soul to the Cosmopolitan". Interview with Andrea Domanick, lasvegassun.com. July 26, 2012.

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• With the media how it is these days, people expect to know everything. I don't talk about my girlfriend because essentially she doesn't want to be talked about.

  Anton du Beke

  Girlfriend, People, Want

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• I wanted to be the perfect artist. I'd do three hours of media interviews a day, going to every radio station I could squeeze in. I'd sign autographs after the show until everybody left.

  Clint Black

  Artist, Perfect, Radio

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• Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history.

  Conrad Black

  Successful, Operators

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• I do a lot of media work, I've been investing and I'm involved with real estate. It's totally different from what I had been doing but I find it challenging and fun. To be honest, I really don't miss the track. I pretty well accomplished what I set out to do and it was time to move on.

  Donovan Bailey

  Fun, Real, Moving

  "I don’t miss running, says Donovan Bailey". Interview with Paul Irish, www.thestar.com. November 28, 2011.

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• The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections.

  Fred Barnes

  Giving Up, Winning, White

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• The mass media in the days of newspapers and television it's hard to be able to find a story that's about just what you're interested in at the time you're interested in it.

  Guy Burgess

  Stories, Television, Able

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• What I do know is that with a celebrity's death comes an avalanche of media, and in that media is most often another death - it takes a life that is filled with complicated talent, hope, success and drive and reduces it to the 'story.

  James Belushi

  Stories, Avalanches, Talent

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• I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media.

  Milton Babbitt

  Withdrawal, World, Dare

  Milton Babbitt (2011). “The Collected Essays of Milton Babbitt”, p.53, Princeton University Press

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• I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.

  Abbie Cornish

  Oil, Stuff, Paint

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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

  Stuff, Anecdotes, Attention

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

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• I have a dad-ager. My dad is really good at the business end of things. But it's really a family affair. My mother handles all my social media stuff - Facebook, Twitter, e-mails, that kind of thing.

  Jencarlos Canela

  Mother, Dad, Mail

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• The average teen today spends about 35 hours a week in front of a screen of some kind: iPod, movie, TV, video. And a lot of it is good, but a lot of it's not. And so I think you've got that five hours a day of media coming into your kid's head that's creating a lot of havoc out there.

  Sean Covey

  Kids, Thinking, Average

  "Glenn Beck Show", www.cnn.com. August 10, 2007.

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