“That's sort of a trick question, and I don't have a trick answer. Next question, please. You're not going to get me with that question today, buddy...I'm a veteran at this, buddy. Can't get that with me, buddy. Not today.” TodayNextAnswersMediaPleaseTricksNbaVeteranBuddy Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“Depending on what you do and how you do what you do, I wouldn't recommend for everyone to allow themselves to be public online. I think it also in some way, shape or form allows you to answer questions that otherwise would be lingering and dictate your own path instead of having your path dictated by the media.” ThinkingWayWould BeFormAnswersPathMediaShapesOnlineLingering Author:Ashton Kutcher
“I'm serious when I'm talking to the press because I'm always on guard because I never know what you're going to ask and I never know how you're going to construe my answer, so I try to maintain a pretty even pace when I'm speaking with the media.” KnowsTryingAsksAnswersTalkingKnow HowMediaSeriousPressesPace Author:Ashton Kutcher
“The media uses polls to create news stories. I think polls are just an extension of the editorial page, an excuse to get them on the front page. You can ask any question you want, get any answer you want, and then run around with that as a news story.” ThinkingWantStoriesUseRunningAsksAnswersMediaFrontsNewsPagesExcuseExtensionsPollsEditorialsNews Stories Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Our society is falling back increasingly on rampant consumerism and self-promoting social media as a way for people to feel that their lives matter - self-centered means of numbing the questions of mattering. Culture has relapsed back into the self-aggrandizing, glorifying answers that the Athenians had presumed, which had Socrates railing against them until he got so annoying that they killed him.” PeopleWayFeelsMeanSelfMatterFallCultureSocialAnswersMediaSocial MediaOur SocietyAnnoyingConsumerismPromotingSelf CenteredNumbingAthenians Author:Rebecca Goldstein