“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.” PeopleThinkingDoeSometimesDoneBitsSidesForgetMediaManagersOverlooked 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.” IfsKnowsWayBelieveStillsSometimesCharacterValuesAsksMoralOpinionStruggleIssuesMediaResponsibleDon't BelieveCensorship Author:Katey Sagal
“I sometimes compare press officers to riflemen on the Somme -- mowing down wave upon wave of distortion, taking out rank upon rank of supposition, deduction and gossip.” SometimesMediaPressesWaveCompareGossipOfficersDistortionDeductionsSuppositionMowing Author:Bernard Ingham
“The good news is you can get a lot of information off the Internet for free and in a hurry. But I think the breaking up of the media, which is otherwise kind of healthy, has contributed to less actual reporting and a louder, more contentious, more divisive public discourse, highlighting conflict, sometimes falsely.” ThinkingKindSometimesMediaInformationInternetHealthyConflictNewsDiscourseGood NewsPublic DiscourseContentiousHighlighting Author:William J. Clinton
“Nima Shirazi's is an important progressive voice in the Iran debate in the West, often deconstructing the myths (and sometimes propaganda) we commonly encounter in the mainstream media. With succinct and elegant prose, and with no axe to grind, he exposes the hypocrisy of Western attitudes toward Iran.” ImportantSometimesVoiceAttitudeMediaWestWesternMythDebatePropagandaEncountersHypocrisyProseIranProgressiveMainstreamElegantGrindMainstream Media Author:Hooman Majd
“I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the least draw to Facebook or MySpace. I've been involved anonymously in some tiny listservs, mainly in my ceaseless quest for random novelty, and sometimes while doing something that more closely resembles research.” FirstsHas BeensSometimesSocialFeltMediaInvolvedDrawsResearchSocial MediaTinyAttractiveQuestsNovelty Author:William Gibson
“I sometimes wish the trade unionists who work in the mass media, those who are writers and broadcasters and secretaries and printers and lift operators of Thomson House would remember that they too are members of our working class movement and have a responsibility to see that what is said about us is true.” SaidSometimesRememberHouseWishResponsibilityClassMediaMovementMembersMassTradeLiftsSecretaryWorking ClassMass MediaOperatorsBroadcastersPrinter Author:Tony Benn
“In Turkey, the media wait for you outside. You go down to them, in tunnel, and sometimes, people are yelling and throwing things. They throw coins. I get hit in the head. Bleeding. There is blood.” PeopleSometimesWaitingBloodMediaThrowingCoinsTurkeysTunnelsBleedingYellingThrowing Things Author:Mehmet Okur
“Sometimes, reading my own media, the negativity can upset me, but I just deal with things on a positive basis. I mean, I have up to 20,000 people singing my words back to me on a nightly basis - they share my hopes and fears, and they relate to my own life experiences. Life can be pretty isolating, but that connection is always amazing.” PeopleMeanSometimesReadingMy OwnDealsShareMediaSingingConnectionsBasesRelateUpsetLife ExperienceNegativityMy Own LifeHopes And Fears Author:James Blunt
“I suggest that what artists do in all media can be summarized as deliberately performing the operations that occur instinctively during a ritualized behaviour: they simplify or formalize, repeat (sometimes with variation), exaggerate, and elaborate in both space and time for the purpose of attracting attention and provoking and manipulating emotional response.” ArtSometimesPoetryPurposeArtistSpaceAttentionMediaEmotionalResponseOperationsPerformingRepeatsBehaviourProvokingTime And SpaceVariationSimplifyEmotional Response Author:Ellen Dissanayake
“We all know as we travel around this country or around the world that there are huge problems, and also people doing amazing things on the ground - but those people rarely get reported. Our media are so into conflict that they sometimes say to me, "Bring an 'anti' with you."” PeopleKnowsWorldCountrySometimesProblemMediaHugeConflictAround The WorldAmazing Things Author:Gloria Steinem
“Sometimes I am more interested in the richness of the material with all the stuff we've done which all tell a story to me rather than any single film career I could have, because I really do find myself interested in other people's ideas. I just want to be responsible with an array of things that engage me and feel vital, opposed to the corporate media out there that is just about making the loudest noises possible.” PeopleWantFeelsIdeasSometimesDoneStoriesFilmStuffCareersMediaMaterialsResponsibleNoiseCorporateRichnessBeing Responsible Author:Larry Fessenden
“Remarks such as 'great Australian', 'larger than life' are sometimes used where they are not appropriate. But in the case of Kerry Packer both of those descriptions are entirely appropriate. He was a great Australian, he was a larger than life character and in so many ways he left his mark on the Australian community over a very long career in business, particularly in the media and also that other great passion of his, Australian sport” WayLongSometimesCharacterUsedPassionLeftSportsCommunityBusinessCareersCasesMediaMarkAppropriateDescriptionAustraliaRemarksAustralianLarger Than LifeGreat PassionLong CareersPackers Author:John Howard
“Every time you run a 35mm print, it picks up scratches. It picks up dirt. Sometimes it breaks, and you have to re-splice it. You lose frames. This doesn't happen with digital or Blu-ray. I think that's great. Because I love the new media.” ThinkingSometimesHappensRunningLosesBreakMediaPicksDigitalPrintRaysDirtScratchesNew Media Author:William Friedkin
“I feel that the people I see in the media are sometimes more real than I am, which is utter bullshit.” PeopleFeelsRealSometimesMediaBullshit Author:Gloria Steinem
“I have, and do sometimes, work with other media. But there is something about the physical activity and the directness of painting that I find fascinating. I am very attracted to the materiality of paintings and the visual phenomena of hue and value.” SometimesValuesMediaPaintingActivityVisualsFascinatingHuePhysical ActivityMateriality Author:Stephen Beal
“Of course in Turkey I'm seen as being on the 'Western' side, criticised by the nationalists, criticised by the communitarians as not belonging. Even, sometimes, criticised for looking at my country through Western eyes. And in the Western media I'm portrayed as belonging to the East.” CountrySometimesEyeCoursesSidesMediaWesternEastBelongingTurkeysNot BelongingWestern Media Author:Orhan Pamuk
“I'm really happy in my own skin. There's a lot of judgment that can come from outside sometimes, and there's media scrutiny that is placed on a lot of women in the public eye, and I just couldn't care less. I really couldn't care less. 'I would sometimes say in my twenties, 'oh, I couldn't care less', but I think I probably did. Now I genuinely don't and that's a lovely, liberating thing to experience.” ThinkingSometimesEyeCareMy OwnMediaJudgmentSkinsTwentiesLovelyLiberatingReally HappyScrutinyPublic Eye Author:Kate Winslet
“It seemed from the media that we were being told that all Haitians had AIDS. At the time, I had just come from Haiti. I was twelve years old, and the building I was living in had primarily Haitians. A lot of people got fired from their jobs. At school, sometimes in gym class, we'd be separated because teachers were worried about what would happen if we bled. So there was really this intense discrimination.” PeopleIfsYearsSometimesHappensSchoolJobsClassTeacherMediaBuildingAidsDiscriminationIntenseWorriedGymTwelveHaitiGym Class Author:Edwidge Danticat
“My fear is you have to be careful as a writer to not get caught up in social media and blogging, because it can start to feed into your writing time. When you are writing a book, it's such a long journey where the payoff is way at the end, sometimes years away. The payoff of the blog post is today. You get the reinforcement, comments or "likes" immediately. It's appealing. You have to be patient with the book.” WayWritingYearsLongBookEndsSometimesTodaySocialJourneyMediaPatientCaughtCarefulSocial MediaLikesPostsCommentBe CarefulCaught UpBe PatientBlogsWriting A BookBloggingPayoffLong JourneyReinforcement Author:Matt de la Pena
“I sometimes miss the days where I could fly a little more under the radar. There was no social media in the '90s, and it was a different world. I also miss TRL - that was always a blast!” WorldLittlesDifferentSometimesSocialMediaMissingSocial MediaBlastDifferent WorldsRadar Author:Nick Carter
“Sometimes the media says, well, this state had an election, it's the end of the campaign. It is not. We have dozens of more states to go. We're feeling good about the future.” WellsEndsSometimesStatesFeelingsMediaElectionCampaignsFeel GoodDozen Author:Bernie Sanders
“At my age I can handle people writing junk about me on social media, but I sometimes air "mean tweets" on my show to highlight how destructive this meanness and bullying is to young people. I know how devastating it is for a young person to be the victim of such ugliness.” PeopleKnowsWritingMeanPersonsI CanSometimesShowsAgeYoungSocialKnow HowAirMediaVictimSocial MediaHandleDestructiveBullyingUglinessJunkTweetHighlightsMeanness Author:Gretchen Carlson
“I try not to get personally involved in social media. It kind of makes me sick sometimes.” TryingKindSometimesSocialMediaInvolvedSickSocial Media Author:Emily Saliers
“Tangentially, Americans, despite many of us being prone to sometimes-eyebrow-raising disclosures about our private lives on social media, still retain what I think of as reactionary views about sexuality and intimacy.” ThinkingStillsSometimesSocialViewsMediaSocial MediaSexualityDespiteIntimacyEyebrowsPrivate LifeReactionariesDisclosure Author:Christine Sneed
“I think I'm able to reach a lot of folks, despite the fact that the conventional news media sometimes says, "You know, this speech is too long," or "It's too complicated," or "He needs to have better sound bites," or what have you.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsLongSometimesFactsAbleSoundMediaSpeechNewsFolksComplicatedDespiteBitesConventionalNews MediaSound Bites Author:Barack Obama
“It's funny how in the long time of me working in various countries and various situations that there is this kind of idea out in the media that I am a daredevil and that I risk the lives of everyone around me, but nobody ever gets hurt on my shoot. Some crew members sometimes, but the actors are OK.” KindLongIdeasCountrySometimesActorsHurtSituationRiskMediaMembersLong TimeVariousCrewDaredevil Author:Werner Herzog
“In horror films, they sometimes don't show the monster because our imaginations and our own pain is so much greater. Social media is like that. I think it's so great. It doesn't have to show a monster - when you see someone leaving a mean comment, or living a so-called perfect life, you just put all of your pain into that.” ThinkingMeanSometimesShowsPainFilmSocialImaginationPerfectGreaterMediaHorrorLeavingSocial MediaMonstersCommentHorror FilmPerfect Life Author:Alice Eve
“Mostly, I stay out of social media conversations. But sometimes, they hunt me down and shoot at me anyway!” SometimesSocialMediaConversationDown AndSocial MediaHunts Author:Ani DiFranco
“Sometimes we overemphasize the political system. There are other ways to make a difference. There's technology, there's media, there's business.” WaySometimesPoliticalDifferencesTechnologyMediaMaking A DifferencePolitical Systems Author:Van Jones
“I've always found it sort of hilarious, and occasionally horrifying, how these images [in mass media] impact us, and especially when it comes to love and sex and relationships, I think we sometimes develop unrealistic expectations.” ThinkingSometimesFoundSexMediaMassExpectationsImpactMass MediaUnrealistic Expectations Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“Globalization combined with technology, combined with social media and constant information, have disrupted people's lives sometimes in very concrete ways; a manufacturing plant closes and suddenly an entire town no longer has what was the primary source of employment.” PeopleWaySometimesSocialTechnologyMediaInformationSourceTownsConstantPlantSocial MediaEmploymentPrimariesConcreteGlobalizationManufacturingPrimary Source Author:Barack Obama
“I think sometimes the media eggs on a lot of things and makes it worse. That's what puts a lot of things in people's heads.” PeopleThinkingSometimesMediaEggs Author:Felicia Pearson