Bob Beckel Quotes

Not only has celebrity dumbed down our politics, it has become intertwined with it.

Bob Beckel

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• Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Power
  • Man
  • Personality

• Even when I get to the point where I am acting and performing, where I want to be with my career, I'm never going to think of anyone as lower than me. Everyone's the celebrity of their own life, you know?

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • Life
  • Career
  • Acting

• The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Culture
  • Change
  • Ideas

• I've read stories that are set in a celebrity's house, and you know where it is and what it looks like and what's inside it, and that's not something I want anyone to know.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Want
  • House
  • Know

• I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Celebrity
  • Possible
  • Far

• I'm a professional actor, not a celebrity.

  

  Pam Ferris
  • Professional
  • Celebrity

• I can't think of a more pathetic situation for an actor than to do a film and not connect to it. And I pray to God that I never face that situation.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • God
  • Think
  • Never

• Sometimes I will tweet an interview I have coming up and ask my followers what questions they have for the celebrity. I feel that way I can really know first hand what people want to hear answered.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Done
  • You
  • Celebrity

• I mean, it's a bit of a double-edged sword being a celebrity and being an actor as I'm sure you know. Your public laundry is constantly aired out and I thought that maybe I could do some good.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Celebrity

• I am not a celebrity. I work with celebrities, and it is very difficult. When a celebrity wears a dress, it's good for business, so brands fight for the red carpet. Me? I don't like it, because fashion becomes a job about dressing celebrities. And it's a bit boring.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Work
  • Business

• Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Amazing
  • Celebrity
  • Status

• In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering why I, out of thousands like me, had become famous.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Why
  • Me
  • Lost

• A major celebrity is a major brand, and major brands pick very critically what other brands they're going to associate with. So an A-list celebrity usually picks an A-list brand.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Celebrity
  • Going
  • Brand

• I'm not trying to be a celebrity, Justin Timberlake kinda guy.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Trying
  • Guy
  • Celebrity

• I'm a real big celebrity. I'm this megastar.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Real
  • Celebrity
  • Big

• I always try to be very human in my performances and hang out with my fans. It is cool to be a celebrity, but at the end of the day I want to empower my audience and say, 'Hey, I am just like you.'

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Day
  • Cool
  • End

• Obviously, I don't like to use my new celebrity status as a way to get first class service at a restaurant. For me, it's just more special to use it for good.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Good
  • Me
  • Service

• I have a lot of trouble understanding how people see me as a celebrity. I work 14 hours a day, and then I just want to talk to my family, see the people I love, pet my dog, and go to bed. I'm not looking to be best friends with or emulate a celebrity.

  

  America Ferrera
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• Until there are no more hate crimes, no more vicious bullying and ugly slurs, whenever a person comes out - whether that person is a celebrity or a 'nobody' - it should be celebrated like the triumph of courage it is.

  

  Donna Brazile
  • Hate
  • Courage
  • Celebrity

• No one is famous when they wake up in the morning, so it's nice seeing people in moments when they're just being themselves.

  

  Elizabeth Peyton
  • People
  • Up
  • Nice

• Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Today
  • Countries
  • Within

• I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Kids
  • Death
  • Better

• Not only has celebrity dumbed down our politics, it has become intertwined with it.

  

  Bob Beckel
  • Celebrity