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“Media is very different from financial services. People are very fickle and very vocal. They believe that things should be one way and not the other. It's still very rewarding to build products for huge audiences. It feels like you're making an impact.”

People Way Feels Should Believe Stills Different Audience Media Products Huge Like You Impact Financial One Way Vocal Fickle Financial Services

Author:Max Levchin

“Think of Slide as a giant media network for people to transmit information. The content that's in there now has been provided by users - it's whatever they want it to be.”

People Thinking Want Has Beens Media Information Giants Users Slides Transmit

Author:Max Levchin

“I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If I could control prople's minds, I'd like to put something useful in.”

Ifs Way Mind Found Media If I Could Overwhelming Mind Control Drills

Author:Natalie Merchant

“Some other things I don't miss: the media and the pressure of just being asked to do, and being asked questions every day.”

Media Missing Pressure Just Being

Author:Pedro Martinez

“Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it.”

Government Today Law Results Media Direct Subsidies

Author:Robert Waterman McChesney

“Also, the commercial media in a superior position, really, to any other corporate lobby, because where would people hear about commercial media or corporate media criticism, where would they hear criticism of them other than in the commercial media?”

People Media Position Criticism Superiors Corporate

Author:Robert Waterman McChesney

“One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last three weeks says that now the average hour of radio in the United States has 18 minutes of commercials.”

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Author:Robert Waterman McChesney

“Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.”

Country Past Given Media Ethics Presses Surprise Decades Code Code Of Ethics

Author:Roger Mudd

“I think the media has changed, not just in England but in the world.”

Thinking World Media Changed England

Author:Sienna Miller

“I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.”

Kind Media Concerned All Kinds New Media

Author:Ted Nelson

“Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence.”

Feels Social Technology Media Social Media Innocence Sappers

Author:Chris O'Dowd

“It's not about 'NBC is evil.' It's about that media structure - CBS, ABC, CNN, even some of the smaller operations are now multinationals, with these extraordinarily diverse holdings.”

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Author:Keith Olbermann

“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.”

Kind Bigs Lord Media Rings Shock Shocking Big Things Scrutiny Juggernaut

Author:Miranda Otto

“I think the media loves taking the most absurd clips for a sport that has become congressional politics.”

Thinking Sports Media Absurd Clip

Author:Kal Penn

“Appeal to all scholars of stupidity in the world. Come to Italy, this country has the highest rate of morons of the universe, especially among political, bureaucratic, judicial, religious, intellectual, artistic, and mass media members, so it is the best place to develop your own field research.”

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Author:William C. Brown

“When I started writing this blog more than years ago, it was in response to traditional media's habit of twisting interviews to fit the headlines they wanted to create.”

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Author:Mark Cuban

“I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.”

People Ifs Knows Want I Can Technology Know How Media Built Adversity Meaningful Software Disruption Underdog

Author:Aaron Levie

“I think more things are becoming socially acceptable. I think that just by having more media, whether that's TV or Internet, we're able to see more things.”

Thinking Able Media Tvs Becoming Internet Acceptable

Author:Brie Larson

“Traditional local media are adding local search capabilities to their sites so they can share in the local search traffic and ad revenues in the local markets they serve.”

Share Media Locals Traditional Ads Capability Site Traffic Revenue

Book:Get Rich Click: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet

Source: Get Rich Click: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet

“We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.”

Book Dark Media Available Teenager Dark Times

Author:Tamora Pierce

“The media dwells mostly on negativity.”

Media Negativity

Author:Bill Parcells

“At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media.”

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Author:Sean Parker

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

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Author:Sean Parker

“I don't think about the media.”

Thinking Media

Author:Zara Phillips

“With the growing reliance on social media, we no longer search for news, or the products and services we wish to buy. Instead they are being pushed to us by friends, acquaintances and business colleagues.”

Wish Social Growing Media Products News Social Media Colleagues Reliance Acquaintance

Author:Erik Qualman

“Social media has made the web all about me, me, me.”

Made Social Media Social Media

Author:Erik Qualman

“I don't do social media of any kind. If I did, I may as well join Scientology.”

Ifs Wells Kind May Social Media Social Media Scientology

Author:Edward Ruscha

“I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.”

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Author:Ian Rankin

“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.”

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Author:Matthew Rhys

“What's brilliant about the United States system of government is separation of power. Not only the executive, legislative, judicial branches, but also the independence of the military from civilians, an independent media and press, an independent central bank.”

“I grew up with Scientology - my parents at one point were clerical. It's a pragmatic philosophy, not merely a belief system. Yeah, it's had media exposure because certain luminaries do Scientology, but millions of people do it who are not celebrities. It's not a threat or some cult.”

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Author:Giovanni Ribisi

“Our world is moving at an ever-accelerating pace, and with the advent of social media, what happens in New York now can be reported across the globe 60 seconds later.”

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Author:Stuart Rose

“I grew up in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, but I didn't really know I was a deprived, poverty-stricken child until the media made me aware of it.”

Knows Children Made Poverty Media Grew Grew Up Neighborhood Deprived

Author:Ving Rhames

“Instagram is a media company. I think we're about visual media.”

Thinking Company Media Visuals Instagram

Author:Kevin Systrom

“While it has been hurtful to my family and me to read constantly in the media that I was under investigation, I am pleased that as expected my spending has been found to be in order.”

Has Beens Order Found Media My Family Spending Expected Investigation Hurtful Been Hurt

Author:Peter Slipper

“American media has just become talk radio, incredibly partisan name-calling and op-eds.”

Names Media Calling Radio Partisans Name Calling Talk Radio American Media

Author:Shane Smith

“If you look not just at the Arab spring, but at what I call the youth spring that has started in Europe, young people are starting to find a voice, and they are not looking to the traditional media to reflect that.”

People Ifs Looks Young Voice Media Youth Spring Europe Starting Traditional Arab Spring

Author:Shane Smith

“The media loves negative spin.”

Media Negative

Author:Chloe Sevigny

“Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.”

Term Media Music Is Outlets Venues Marginalized Instrumental Music

Author:David Sanborn

“I think what I've actually achieved as a manager does sometimes get a bit overlooked, because all people think about is the media side of things. They tend to forget I've not done so bad.”

People Thinking Doe Sometimes Done Bits Sides Forget Media Managers Overlooked

Author:Gordon Strachan

“I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your values. You're playing a character, but the way the media will sometimes ask you if these are your opinions, you know - they make you responsible for that, and I take issue with it because I don't believe in censorship.”

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Author:Katey Sagal

“The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.”

People Believe Facts Shows Jobs Media Television Percent Average Profit Customers Neighborhood Fewer Twelve Good Job Eighty Margins Surveys Profit Margin

Author:L. Neil Smith

“The media simply does not understand Econ 101.”

Doe Media

Author:Mark Skousen

“In the world of interactive multi-media highways we are all traveling somewhere interactively and we are all shopping for something, our dreams, our hopes, our ambitions for ourselves, for those we love - these little scenarios we play out endlessly in our mind.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

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

Want Different Media Advertising Owners Google Revenue

Author:Maurice Saatchi

“Because it's so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, 'likes' and view counts, social media have become the metier of choice for many people who might otherwise channel that energy into books, music or art - or even into their own Web ventures.”

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Author:Neil Strauss

“You make something, and you really have fun with it, and you try to put emotion in it, and at the end of the day, you have no idea how the tide is going to fall. You don't know if everyone's going to like it, if everyone's going to hate it, if it's going to be like you're a media darling, or all of a sudden you're a sellout. You have no idea.”

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Author:Regina Spektor

“The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.”

Roles Media Truth Is Traditional Historic

Author:Ron Suskind

“By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books.”

Way Book Fall Games Term Virtue Subjects Media Source Discipline Messages News Treats Access Reporters Default

Author:Ron Suskind

“I come from a place where we feel like we're not represented in the national media.”

Feels Media

Author:Shepard Smith

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