Media Quotes - Page 27

• I think it's pretty obvious to most people that Napster is not media specific, but I could see a system like Napster evolving into something that allows users to locate and retrieve different types of data other than just MP3s or audio files.

  Shawn Fanning

  Thinking, Mp3, Data

  "Q&A: Napster creator Shawn Fanning". Interview with Giancarlo Varanini, www.zdnet.com. March 3, 2000.

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• Nobody has ever built a reliable peer-to-peer service, where people can really access all the music they want in one location,... Once I got it into my head, I couldn't imagine the media space without one.

  Shawn Fanning

  Space, People, Peers

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• Because of social media, a lot of people think they can be, like, a rapper or a singer or a musician because they can put something on YouTube and it might become a thing because there's - like - YouTube phenomenons and whatnot, you know? It's not like they dedicated years to it or anything. It's annoying.

  Sky Ferreira

  Thinking, Rapper, Years

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

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• I love social media and the ability to connect to new people through Twitter and Facebook and share my real time experiences with my mommy network.

  Soleil Moon Frye

  Real, People, Social

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

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• A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting.

  Jay Griffiths

  Voting, Important, Democratic

  "Indonesia's 'slow motion genocide'" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2010.

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• Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and accords greater respect to those with greater expertise. With one exception: climate science.

  Jay Griffiths

  Ideas, Climate, Academia

  "Don't give climate change heretics an easy ride" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2012.

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• Social media presents an opportunity for business people to connect and know each other prior to a phone call or email taking place.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Opportunity, Phones, People

  "Jeffrey Gitomer Interview on Social Selling". Interview with Dan Schawbel, www.forbes.com. April 15, 2011.

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• My website, my email magazine, my blog, my books, my corporate seminars, and my public seminars all create the ability for social media to work and all build reputation and ranking.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Book, Email, Magazines

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• I think there's been a major shift in grass roots media because of the Internet and because the geeks and nerds rule the world. They are in control in so many ways.

  Erin Gray

  Thinking, Roots, Nerd

  "Conventions: Another day at the office for celebs" by Suzanne Kelly, www.cnn.com. September 7, 2010.

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• The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as "steroids.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Baseball, Talking, League

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• No one forces me, or any other writer, to sell a film option on the books. If you don't want to run the risk that the filmmakers may adapt your work in a way you don't like, then you don't sell the option. You know when you sell it that they will have to make some changes, just because film and TV are different media than books.

  Jeff Abbott

  Running, Book, Risk

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• I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.

  Kathy Acker

  Thinking, Censorship, Cases

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• The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.

  Ken Auletta

  Book, Digital Revolution, Magazines

  "Can Aereo Disrupt the TV Business?" by Ken Auletta, www.newyorker.com. February 18, 2013.

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• Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely.

  Marc Andreessen

  Technology, Water, Hook

  "The Man Who Makes the Future: Wired Icon Marc Andreessen". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. April 24, 2012.

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• Money is tighter now, with the advertising dollar spread a lot more thinly across a whole range of media because of the Internet. It means the television networks have less power to produce shows, and TV is where most Australian actors make their money.

  Grant Bowler

  Mean, Tvs, Dollars

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Young people are so often dissed by the media.

  Hugh Bonneville

  People, Young

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

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• If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger.

  Emilio Estevez

  People, Trying, Swagger

  "Emilio Estevez On ‘The Way’: Actor Discusses New Movie, Life, Love, Faith And Micro-Farms" by Lauren Rosenblum, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 14, 2011.

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• We're all imperfect. And wouldn't it be great if the message sent out by the mainstream media is that we're fine being exactly who we are? Wouldn't that be great for everyone?

  Emilio Estevez

  Who We Are, Messages, Imperfect

  "Emilio Estevez On ‘The Way’: Actor Discusses New Movie, Life, Love, Faith And Micro-Farms". Interview With Lauren Rosenblum, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 14, 2011.

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• The belief that we are what the media says we are, what people perceive we are, is soon to be what we think we are. We are treated based on this warped perception. It is hard to get away from it.

  Kevin Eubanks

  Thinking, People, Perception

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• If you look at the Internet, it's been hard for a lot of the traditional media companies to launch viable brands.

  Tom Freston

  Looks, Internet, Company

  "Vice's Shane Smith and Tom Freston on Sending Dennis Rodman to North Korea for HBO". Interview with Eriq Gardner, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 12, 2013.

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• One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early September 1989, a major government-media blitz was launched by the President. That month the AP wires carried more stories about drugs than about Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa combined. If you looked at television, every news program had a big section on how drugs were destroying our society, becoming the greatest threat to our existence, etc.

  Noam Chomsky

  Latin, Government, America

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• Our yearning for democracy is accompanied by a no less profound yearning for peace. And the media also faced the task of historical engineering to establish this required truth. We therefore have phenomena called 'peace missions' and the 'peace process'. These are terms that apply to whatever the United States happens to be doing or advocating at some moment... in short, 'War is Peace'.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Engineering, Profound

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• A billion people died on the news tonight.

  Jack Johnson

  Art, People, News

  Song: The News, Album: Brushfire Fairytales

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• A foolish picture I live in disgust, degradation being eaten by lust.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Art, Lust, Degradation

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• A rebel without a clue.

  Tom Petty

  Art, Rebel, Entertainment

  Song: Into the Great Wide Open

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