Press Quotes
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News is the most — the most human thing there is, reflecting the changing picture of our daily lives and the world around us. Fleeting, of course, but essential. A free press is the most vital and important element in a democracy. Why, you can always tell when democracy is threatened because attempts are made to stifle free expression and keep people from knowing what is going on and forming their own judgments.” She added thoughtfully, “It is terrible to see news distorted and falsified for private ends or personal gain or to engender hatred or serve totalitarian purposes as has happened abroad and is happening here every day.
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The United States gave me opportunities that my country of origin could not: freedom of the press and complete freedom of expression.
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My chronology is terrible. Work with William Shawn must have some ago. It was after he was fired by Newhouse. After New - when Newhouse bought The New Yorker, he said in one of those grand press.
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The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations.
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When things are not going the way you want them to go, you start to press.
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The press has made up so much...God...awful, horrifying stories...it has made me realize the more often you hear a lie, I mean, you begin to believe it.
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We spent a couple of years trying to be what we thought people wanted us to be, what the press thought we should be, doing what the company wanted. Finally we just said 'Sod it. This is what we do best. We're best at making pop records that people enjoy and having fun and entertaining them.'
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Early on I decided that I was going to lie to the press. The best approach to talking about my personal life was to lie.
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Our political press has just been captured by trivia.
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I am going home and I think in a week or so, hopefully, I'll be done with all the press stuff, and then I can kind of into my cave and start preparing for "Mad Max."
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Many a man has gotten himself killed by believing his own press.
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It wasn't as if crack was getting great press in the South Bronx in 1999, but it took a particular kind of idiot to wake up one day and say, 'Angel dust is a product I've heard nothing but good about, and it's about time I was involved.
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Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but their power exists for good or evil.
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I can guarantee this to you: every single actor has had a dream of walking on stage on press night and realising that they don't know their lines.
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I don't speak about rumours every day in the press, because it's not necessary to tell everybody the same answer.
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Everyone wants to be loved, generally. If you released a record and nobody said anything, if you didn't get any feedback from people you don't know, i.e. the press, you'd be sort of upset. To me, any press is good press.
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Whenever the press quits abusing me, I know I'm in the wrong pew.
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A photograph is a moment when you press the button. It will never come back.
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We gave interviews to radio. We did not give press interviews, or very few.
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I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics.
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It's so great to have your private relationships play out in the press.
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Remember,the press is a business: Newspapers and magazines are in business to make money - sometimes at the expense of accuracy, fairness and even the truth.
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A free press stands as one of the great interpreters between the government and the people. To allow it to be fettered is to fetter ourselves.
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We think we have got freedom of the press. When one millionaire has ten newspapers and ten million people have no newspapers - that is not freedom of the press.
