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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

Cool, Hard, Trying

I would absolutely love to go back to the simplicity of the '80s, where there wasn't texting, social media, iPhones, or smartphones. I love the fact that you would go home and check your messages. I'm not well suited to the world of modern technology.
Matthew Rhys

Love, Home, Technology

So I think democracy, in the long-term, in our countries will survive if it comes to be associated with leadership, will not survive if democracy plus media brings to us more and more followship rather than leadership.
Mario Monti

Leadership, Democracy, Rather

In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the sub-continental world, but it's not a conversation, it's a monologue. It's always from one point of view. 'If we don't tell our own stories, no one will tell them' is my mantra.
Mira Nair

Movies, America, Tell

The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion.
Jim Harrison

Off, Fact, Unless

The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan.
Jared Diamond

Hope, Learning, Books

You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom.
Corazon Aquino

Freedom, Long, Journey

The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.
Corazon Aquino

Power, Light, Off

National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services.
Corazon Aquino

Government, Find, Honest

One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.
Rowan D. Williams

Powerful, Public, Interest

Social media allows me to pick my times for social interaction.
Guy Kawasaki

Social, Times, Pick

This is God's world this is not the media's world.
Terrell Owens

I think people change, but the media, they never allowed me to change. They never allowed me to be a better person.
Terrell Owens

Change, Person, Allowed

There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media.
Alva Myrdal

Everything, Through, Violence

A lot of media that that I want to consume, I don't want to have to own forever and ever. It's not like real estate.
John Hodgman

Real, Forever, Estate

Certainly I feel like I'm the tip of the arrow at times because certainly the national media wants to talk about the fact that I'm a black Republican and some people think of that as zany that a black person would be a conservative but to me what is zany is any person black, white, red, brown or yellow not being a conservative.
Tim Scott

Person, Black, Talk

I'm not looking to be dominating all the media outlets ... to talk about any issue just to be on TV, I'm not your guy. I'm not going to be 'the black Republican'. I'm going to be a Republican who happens to be black who will talk about issues that I'm passionate about that are specific to the agenda that I want to accomplish.
Tim Scott

Black, Talk, Looking

With 24-hour news... the story moves on with the media.
Charles Kennedy

Story, News, Moves

To be honest with you, I worry about concentration of ownership in media, where you have a handful of media conglomerates largely controlling what we see, hear and read.
Bernie Sanders

Honest, Worry, Read

All musicians start out with ideals but hanging on to them in the face of media scrutiny takes real integrity. Tougher still is to live up to the ideals of your dedicated fans.
Billy Bragg

Live, Integrity, Real

Well, you know, News Corp is the only real media global - that has a global presence that's involved in TV production, in movies, in publishing, in newspapers, digital media, et cetera. So for a company like that to function, clearly it does not depend only on Rupert Murdoch or James Murdoch.
Al-Waleed bin Talal

Movies, Real, Company

The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society.
Michael Pollan

Power, Society, Everything

Who ever knows what will happen with the economy, and will it affect the Internet? There's so much pouring into the Internet; I would doubt it, but I'm not the greatest predictor. But more than any media sector, I think the Internet will hold up.
Barry Diller

Greatest, Doubt, Happen

Common sense tells us that this explosion of media sources should eliminate any concern over a lack of diversity of views in the marketplace and competition.
Fred Upton

Sense, Common, Diversity

If the EPA continues unabated, jobs will be shipped to China and India as energy costs skyrocket. Most of the media attention has focused on the EPA's efforts to regulate climate-change emissions, but that is just the beginning.
Fred Upton

Energy, Attention, Beginning

The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.
Garry Kasparov

Life, Political, Real

And I think in theater, people don't really focus on the media unless there's a huge superstar doing a play or something.
Elizabeth Olsen

Focus, Play, Unless

We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.
Vicente Fox

Work, Freedom, Daily

There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.
Jim Fowler

Powerful, Television, Propaganda

In truth the social media elements of the Obama campaign, while extremely innovative, did not produce a lot of results.
Sean Parker

Truth, Social, While

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