Media Quotes - Page 37

• Up until the age of 30 I could eat whatever I wanted - I mean, literally, I never put on a pound; if anything, I was criticised in the media for being too skinny.

  Patsy Kensit

  Mean, Age, Pounds

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• I think there's a misconception that I'm opposed to social media.

  Bill Keller

  Thinking, Social, Misconception

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• The most obvious drawback of social media is that they are aggressive distractions.

  Bill Keller

  Distraction, Social, Drawbacks

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• The media cause more problems than they do good.

  Chris Kyle

  Causes, Problem

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

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• It's fantastic to be known as a company that responds quickly to users, shares great resources and friendly banter with them over Twitter, and forges relationships on Pinterest, Facebook, and every other social media site out there.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Friendly, Pinterest, Fantastic

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• There is one tradition in America I am proud to inherit. It is our first freedom and the truest expression of our Americanism: the ability to dissent without fear. It is our right to utter the words, 'I disagree.' We must feel at liberty to speak those words to our neighbors, our clergy, our educators, our news media, our lawmakers and, above all, to the one among us we elect - President.

  Natalie Merchant

  Expression, America, President

  "What is Patriotism?". www.thenation.com. July 15, 1991.

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• The media and their journalists are merely megaphones for stupidity, the verb par excellence.

  William C. Brown

  Italian, Stupidity, Political

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• Literacy is part of everyday social practice - it mediates all aspects of everyday life. Literacy is always part of something else - we are always doing something with it. Its what we choose to do with it that is important. There are a range of contemporary literacies available to us - while print literacy was the first mass media, it is now one of the mass media.

  David Barton

  Reading, Practice, Everyday

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• Prison opened my eyes to so many things. It was a great time. I met interesting people. I got to understand the behaviour of the police and the media. I am an observer of the human race.

  Jonathan King

  Eye, Race, People

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• I hope that all new filmmakers see that the Internet and social media are helpful tools in establishing a fan base as well as being able to interact with your fans.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Able, Fans, Tools

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• It is stupid on my part to think of banning the media.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Stupid, Thinking

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• There's not a whole lot of media interest in me other than just the records that I make.

  Amos Lee

  Records, Interest, Whole

  "Amos Lee sings of love, loss and hope". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. January 18, 2011.

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• Media is very different from financial services. People are very fickle and very vocal. They believe that things should be one way and not the other. It's still very rewarding to build products for huge audiences. It feels like you're making an impact.

  Max Levchin

  Believe, Impact, People

  "Max Levchin on Slide’s big virtual goods bet, scams and — mating". Interview with Kim-Mai Cutler, venturebeat.com. November 5, 2009.

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• Think of Slide as a giant media network for people to transmit information. The content that's in there now has been provided by users - it's whatever they want it to be.

  Max Levchin

  Thinking, People, Giants

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• I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If I could control prople's minds, I'd like to put something useful in.

  Natalie Merchant

  Mind, Way, Found

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Some other things I don't miss: the media and the pressure of just being asked to do, and being asked questions every day.

  Pedro Martinez

  Missing, Pressure, Just Being

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• Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Law, Government, Subsidies

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• Also, the commercial media in a superior position, really, to any other corporate lobby, because where would people hear about commercial media or corporate media criticism, where would they hear criticism of them other than in the commercial media?

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  People, Criticism, Position

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• One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last three weeks says that now the average hour of radio in the United States has 18 minutes of commercials.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Thinking, Average, Three

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• Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.

  Roger Mudd

  Country, Past, Code Of Ethics

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• I think the media has changed, not just in England but in the world.

  Sienna Miller

  Thinking, World, England

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• I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.

  Ted Nelson

  Kind, Concerned, All Kinds

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• Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Technology, Sappers, Innocence

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

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• It's not about 'NBC is evil.' It's about that media structure - CBS, ABC, CNN, even some of the smaller operations are now multinationals, with these extraordinarily diverse holdings.

  Keith Olbermann

  Nbc, Cnn, Evil

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• Around the time of 'The Lord of the Rings,' it was a shock to me just how big it is to be on that kind of media juggernaut. It was a big thing and the scrutiny was shocking.

  Miranda Otto

  Juggernaut, Kind, Lord

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