Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sky Ferreira

A lot of social media saved my ass, so I'm totally for it.

Michelle Shocked

Mainstream media would convince you that there's commercial culture and that's all - but this other music is still here.

Michelle Shocked

If I'm going to be held captive by social media, I'm going to use it against itself.

Michael Shannon

People are morons. I don't do any social media stuff. I have people telling me all the time, "You should do Twitter, you should do this, you should get on Facebook." Are you insane? I'm not doing any of that crap. I stay the hell off that thing. Every once in a while, I send a business email, and that's it.

Michael Moore

The American media wants to pump you full of fear.

Michael Moore

What the media are telling you to be afraid of are the wrong things... Fear is a necessary ingredient of our survival instincts.

Misha Collins

I'm not actually pop culture or social media savvy. I really didn't know what Twitter was when I created an account.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The news media reported the $250 million as an unthinkably huge waste of money and proclaimed that something was wrong with NASA. The result was an investigation and a congressional hearing. Not to defend failure, but $250 million is not much more than the cost to produce Kevin Costner's film flop Waterworld.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

But you will hardly ever read about them. Why? Because once again, the media has predetermined what is not worthy of coverage, even when the news item is something as uninteresting as the cosmic origin of every element in your body.

John von Neumann

Life is a process which may be abstracted from other media.

John Rocker

The media loves nothing more than when there is a racial scandal or something. Racism, bigotry, these are just such hot button issues, and the media loves it.

John Stossel

Asking someone in the media about liberal bias is like asking a fish about water. 'Huh, what are you talking about? Where is it?'

Shawne Merriman

A lot of the things I've done for charity and the money I've given will never be talked about in the media. I'd rather it be that way, because I don't do it for the media. Of course, having celebrities and media there at events helps bring attention to the need, but seeing the looks on peoples' faces when they receive help is why I really do it.

Shay Mitchell

I like to let my skin breathe when I'm not shooting or working, so that's why you'll find me on most of my social media accounts barefaced with face masks!

Terry Semel

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Nikita Khrushchev

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

Nicolas Cage

Without mentioning any names, I looked at pretty much every story that may come to your mind about a politician on the rise who was stopped short or dragged down by personal flaws and then became just a media storm. I see this as a thing that continues to happen in America and I wanted to say something about that.

Monica Lewinsky

And understandably so, that when you're in legal jeopardy, you really cannot put yourself in a position to open yourself up to the media.

Miranda Otto

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.

Matt Taibbi

Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.

Matthew Davis

Television is interesting, in that the pace is quicker and you can see your work more quickly than with movies. And then, with the added social media aspect, you can access that relationship to the fans directly and you have control of the content of what you say, your perspective, your opinions and your ideas.

Mark Skousen

The media simply does not understand Econ 101.

Marina Warner

When virtue is pictured as innocence and innocence equated with childlikeness, the implication is obviously that knowledge and experience are no longer media of goodness, but have become in themselves contaminating. This is a very despairing outlook, in its way as black as Augustine's original sin, for it supposes that original goodness will in all likelihood be defiled...It surrenders the attempt to represent virtue in a mature phase.

Pat Mitchell

Public Broadcasting System an entity designed to create an informed citizenry rather than to deliver consumers to advertisers.

Pablo Schreiber

It was a very, very strange experience to go through on social media. Before that, my social media life had been very tame. I had only just dipped my toes in the world of Twitter and was throwing out a tweet, here and there, of very boring and normal stuff. All of a sudden, Pornstache just turned my world upside down.

Paula Deen

Well what I would really like is a bunch of little n***ers to wear long-sleeve white shirts, black shorts and black bow ties. You know, in the Shirley Temple days, they used to tap dance around. Now, that would be a true Southern wedding wouldn't it? But we can't do that because the media would be on me about that,

Marjane Satrapi

I don't like 'graphic novel.' It's a word that publishers created for the bourgeois to read comics without feeling bad. Comics is just a way of narrating - it's just a media type.

Megyn Kelly

Im a soulless lawyer. Give me any opinion and I can argue it.

Megan Fox

Once you let the words go, you have no control over how they're printed or what the media does with them. So there's no point in trying to make plans or to control it.

Megan Fox

Social media has changed everything in our world. The collective humanity, as it was, has such a voice these days, and that's never really existed before.

Max Lucado

I don't get the impression that most sources of media - like television and movies - are trying to get out a positive message, necessarily. My impression is they're trying to get a message out that promotes their personal opinion, position or belief and they're trying to do something that makes money. They want to turn a buck.

Maurice Saatchi

All media owners want to attract advertising revenue. Google is no different.

Mark Leibovich

Media has changed dramatically, as you and I know. We're in a world now where you're rewarded for being outrageous. Punditry has replaced reporting as the gold standard of journalism.