“I'm very wary of doing political stuff for a lot of reasons. One of the big ones is that the shelf-life for them is not very long, and the joke becomes old news very quickly.” LongReasonBigsPoliticalStuffNewsJokesShelvesShelf LifeOld News Author:Tim Heidecker
“When I was a kid, we watched the Vietnam War on the six o'clock news, and it was desensitizing. You felt you were watching a war film; meanwhile you were really watching these guys getting blown to bits. Parents need to protect their kids from watching that stuff.” NeedsWarKidsFilmGuyFeltStuffBitsParentProtectSixNewsClockVietnamVietnam War Author:Johnny Depp
“If I programmed my own TV network, it would air good news! Just positive stories. Heroic stories. Cute puppy dogs doin' stuff.” IfsStoriesStuffMy OwnAirDogTvsNewsCuteHeroicGood NewsPuppyPuppy DogCute Puppy Author:Jennifer Aniston
“I think people today are very cynical. They need to bring other people down. Reality television and tabloid magazinesnever before did we need to see movie stars taking out their garbage. But all of a sudden, it's front-page newstrying to figure out who's dating whom, all that stuff. Who cares?” PeopleThinkingNeedsTryingRealityCareTodayStarsStuffFrontsFiguresTelevisionNewsPagesDatingMagazinesCynicalWho CaresMovie StarGarbageTabloidsReality Television Author:Scarlett Johansson
“I can read books and news articles about people who have excelled, people who have done extremely well in their chosen field, or made a lot of money, or married well, or what have you. When some people read this stuff, they get inspired, but when I read it, it makes me feel worse. Sometimes I wish I had never learned to read.” PeopleFeelsWellsMadeI CanBookSometimesDoneWishStuffFieldsMarriedNewsInspiredChosenArticlesLots Of MoneyI Can Read Author:John S. Hall
“I've never really been interested in the vintage photos people pay lots of money for -- civil war tintypes or old daguerrotypes of famous people. Nor do I have any interest in the really gross, dark stuff that some people pay top-dollar, like post-mortem photos of babies (yuck) or press photos of old murder scenes or whatever. I collect in these little niches most other people don't care about -- dark-and-weird-but-fun -- and photos that have been written on, which a lot of sellers think hurts their value. All of which is good news for me!” PeopleThinkingLittlesHas BeensWarCareValuesFunStuffInterestHurtDarkPayWrittenBabySceneNewsMurderPressesDollarsDon't CarePostsCivil WarLots Of MoneyGood NewsGrossNicheVintageSellersYuck Author:Ransom Riggs
“I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and my parents are really right wingers. My dad watches, like, five or six hours of Fox News every day and stuff like that.” StuffParentHoursWatchesFiveGrewDadSixGrew UpNewsMy DadFoxesRight WingOhioFox NewsCincinnati Ohio Author:Jeffrey R. Immelt
“I don't watch the news. I get really emotional about it, and I carry that stuff with me for a long time.” LongStuffWatchesEmotionalNewsLong TimeGet Real Author:Missy Peregrym
“Magazines that depend on photography, and design, and long reads, and quality stuff, are going to do just fine despite the Internet and cable news.” LongStuffQualityDesignFineDependsInternetPhotographyNewsDespiteMagazinesCablesCable News Author:Jann Wenner
“If you are one of the hewers of wood and drawers of small weekly paychecks, your letters will have to contain some few items of news or they will be accounted dry stuff.... But if you happen to be of a literary turn of mind, or are, in any way, likely to become famous, you may settle down to an afternoon of letter-writing on nothing more sprightly in the way of news than the shifting of the wind from south to south-east.” IfsWayWritingMindMayHappensTurnsStuffWindFameNewsLettersSouthWoodsEastSettlingDryAfternoonItemsShiftingDrawersPaychecksSettling DownLetter Writing Author:Robert Benchley
“First of all, I'm not pretty. I'm not a world class beauty, ladies and gentlemen. I'm just a guy. I was slow going and stuff like that. I was just never that brand of news.” WorldFirstsGuyStuffClassNewsBrandsGentlemanWorld ClassLadies And GentlemenNot Pretty Author:Halle Berry
“I won't live in L.A. again, hell no, my friends tell me s**t when they come over I don't want to hear. I don't even know who got married and who got pregnant. You turn on the news in L.A. and it is all gossip about people. All the stuff that is going on in the world right now and this gossip is the news?... I love the BBC. I haven't heard myself mentioned on TV since I have been here. That has been really weird for me, and great.” PeopleKnowsWorldWantLoveHas BeensTurnsStuffHellHeardHavensTvsRight NowMarriedNewsMy FriendsGossipPregnantTurn-onGreat LoveReally Weird Author:Lindsay Lohan
“There are lots of excellent analysts out there. John Holdren at the Harvard Kennedy School, who was just president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, has been talking about this stuff for years. There are lots of people out there who understand what’s going on. The problem is, they aren’t much picked up on Fox News.” PeopleYearsHas BeensProblemSchoolStuffPresidentTalkingNewsExcellentAssociationFoxesAdvancementHarvardAnalystsFox NewsAdvancement Of Science Author:Paul R. Ehrlich
“Apple is developing a service called Home Kit that will allow people to operate gadgets like garage openers and thermostats through one app. In related news, please don't tell my parents about this. I can't be explaining this stuff every week.” PeopleI CanHomeStuffParentWeekPleaseNewsDevelopingRelatedApplesExplainingGarageGadgetsApps Author:Jimmy Fallon
“I don't get to watch a lot of TV. I just do all my news and reading and "Meet the Press," all that fun, exciting stuff.” ReadingFunStuffWatchesTvsNewsExcitingPresses Author:Graham Elliot
“I think that especially in the U.S. there's this kind of sensationalizing of news - and making it almost like CNN and stuff are entertainment networks.” ThinkingKindStuffNewsEntertainmentCnn Author:Andrew VanWyngarden
“I get really excited about collaborating because by the end of the day you have something that you never thought you'd have. I was really happy about writing "Bad News" and a bunch of other stuff on the record that came out so well.” WritingWellsEndsStuffRecordsNewsExcitedBunchThe End Of The DayGet RealBad NewsReally HappyCollaborating Author:Orianthi
“I like working on the house, small carpentry stuff. I also like working on the van. That's about as quiet as my mind gets, I think. I always loved working on the How's Your News? TV show and at Camp Jabberwocky too.” ThinkingMindShowsHouseStuffTvsQuietNewsCampsTv ShowsVansCarpentry Author:Chad Urmston
“I just watched the news. Seeing crazy people doing crazy stuff to other people and pretending that they're the good guys really helped.” PeopleGuyStuffSeeingCrazyNewsPretendingGood GuyCrazy People Author:Casper Crump
“I would never want to discourage anyone from listening to the news, heaven forfend. But I thought, you know, when I'm recommending music to people I like to recommend stuff that I think they'll like.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantHeavenStuffListeningNewsDiscouraging Author:Stephen W. Thompson
“If it wasn't for this person's privacy, I'd be able to talk pretty freely about this subject on a personal level. The record's about not her. It's about my struggles through years of dealing with the aftermath of lost love and longing and just mediocrity and just bad news, like life stuff. And in the [record], where the title comes from, the lyrics are actually a conversation between me and another girl, not this Emma character.” IfsYearsPersonsCharacterAbleGirlLostStuffLevelsStruggleRecordsSubjectsConversationNewsLongingTitlesPrivacyMediocrityLost LoveBad NewsAftermathThrough The YearsEmmaOther GirlMy StruggleAnother Girl Author:Justin Vernon
“The real challenge is when I'm at work, I'm at work. I'm locked in, I'm ready to go, I'm focused. When I'm at home, I'm locked in and I'm ready to go and I'm focused on home. We don't watch the show. We don't watch the news. We don't do any of that stuff. I sit down, I play Barbies. And sometimes the kids will come home and play with me.” RealSometimesPlayShowsHomeKidsStuffChallengesWatchesReadyNewsFocusedComing HomeLockedBarbie Author:Jon Stewart
“I studiously avoid the darkest places of the Internet. Sometimes you can't avoid it because you're doing a legitimate news search and something pops up, but I don't breathe that stuff in because I think it's a carcinogen.” ThinkingSometimesStuffInternetNewsPopsBreathe Author:Megyn Kelly
“If fake news that's being released by some foreign government is almost identical to reports that are being issued through partisan news venues, then it's not surprising that that foreign propaganda will have a greater effect, because it doesn't seem that far-fetched compared to some of the other stuff that folks are hearing from domestic propagandists.” IfsSeemsGovernmentStuffGreaterEffectsNewsFolksHearingPropagandaFakeReportsSurprisingIdenticalPartisansVenuesPropagandist Author:Barack Obama
“Of course the media loves stuff like that so they find this one Rockette. It's like you can have 10,000 people at a rally for [Donald] Trump and 200 people outside, and the 200 people outside make the news.” PeopleCoursesStuffMediaLike YouTrumpNews Author:Rush Limbaugh
“My mom is from Jamaica and she was going to school in the morning, and in the evening she was working, and at night she would go to night school and then come in and go to sleep. So she would never watch the news and stuff like that and she didn't know what crack was. She didn't know nothing about it, but when I told her I was selling crack, she threatened to kick me out of the house. And then I just started paying for stuff - paying her bills and giving her money, so she'd just tell me to be careful because there was nothing she could do to stop it.” KnowsGivingSchoolNightHouseStuffSleepWatchesMorningMomNewsBillsCarefulMy MomSellingEveningKicksCracksBe CarefulThreatenedGoing To SleepJamaica Author:The Notorious B.I.G.
“There was so much fake news in Wisconsin, that Scott Walker stuff, they had fake polls. The protests in Madison, which is where the University of Wisconsin is, perfect examples of the use of fake news, trying to make Walker - really they tried to dispirit Walker's supporters.” TryingUseStuffPerfectExampleNewsUniversityFakeProtestSupporterPollsWalkersMadisonWisconsin Author:Rush Limbaugh
“When I talk about the chickification of either the news business or football or anything else, some people think I'm joking or making halfhearted fun, little swipes here at feminism, but some of it's really serious stuff. You never, ever, ever hear how women are at fault in anything, just like in this abuse business.” PeopleThinkingLittlesFunStuffFeminismFootballSeriousNewsAbuseFaults Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think that we live in a world - and this is something which living in Pakistan, perhaps, has taught me - and, you know, we live in a world where there is a constant feed from social media, the news, etc., of things that can scare us. And we become so anxious because human beings are meant - are designed to be sensitized to dangerous stuff.” ThinkingKnowsWorldHumansSocialStuffHuman BeingsMediaDangerousTaughtNewsConstantSocial MediaEtcScareAnxiousPakistan Author:Mohsin Hamid
“First and foremost, I want people on concerts to have a really great experience away from the negative press and negative stuff that you see on the news and Facebook. I don't even like seeing people's cell phones. Let's have a human experience and rub up against each other, you know.” PeopleKnowsWantFirstsHumansStuffSeeingNewsNegativePressesPhonesCellsConcertsReally GreatHuman ExperienceCell PhoneGreat Experiences Author:Mike Dirnt
“When I was a kid it was big news when someone flew around the world in a little aeroplane, but nobody cared when I did it. Then, to rub salt into my wounds, the customs people ripped my aeroplane to pieces, looking for stuff.” PeopleWorldLittlesBigsKidsStuffPiecesNewsWoundsAround The WorldCustomsSaltFlewRippedAeroplanesBig News Author:Gary Numan
“To be sure, if you watch CNBC all day long you'll pick up some interesting news about particular companies and the economy as a whole. Unfortunately, to get to the useful information, you have to wade through reams of useless stuff, with little guidance on how to distinguish between the two.” IfsLittlesLongTwoWholeStuffInterestingCompanyWatchesEconomyInformationParticularNewsPicksUselessGuidanceWadeSome InterestingUseful InformationUseless Stuff Author:James Surowiecki
“I wouldn't call myself a geek, but I do sometimes teach Mommy and Daddy stuff about computers. And I do watch TV, but only informative programmes like the news and documentaries.” SometimesStuffWatchesTeachTvsComputerNewsDocumentariesDaddyGeekProgrammesInformativeMommy And Daddy Author:Adora Svitak
“I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day.” GivingFirstsStuffParentHoursTakenNewsPagesNotesRadioReportsBeing A Parent Author:Thom Yorke
“He gave me the brochure. It was about the Hunters of Artemis. The front read, A WISE CHOICE FOR YOUR FUTURE! Inside were pictures of young maidens doing hunter stuff, chasing monsters, shooting bows. There were captions like: HEALTH BENEFITS: IMMORTALITY AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOU! and A BOY-FREE TOMORROW! "I found that in Annabeth's backpack," Grover said. I stared at him. "I don't understand." "Well, it seems to me… maybe Annabeth was thinking about joining." I'd like to say I took the news well. The truth was, I wanted to strangle the Hunters of Artemis one eternal maiden at a time.” ThinkingWellsMeanSaidSeemsWantedYoungChoicesFoundStuffBoysWiseFrontsTomorrowBenefitsEternalNewsMonstersShootingImmortalityBowsHuntersChasingYour FutureJoiningMaidensAnnabethAnnabeth ChaseArtemisGroverCaptionHealth BenefitsGrover UnderwoodWise ChoicesBrochures Book:The Titan's curse Source: The Titan's curse
“So are you turning out like them? Do you still write and draw?" "yeah, but I don't do anything personnal or profound. My parents take life way to seriousely. I lke to make people laugh. I had a regular cartoon feature in the school news paper and created some for the year book. Social satire stuff. I've done a couple of political cartoons for wisteria's paper and just got one accepted in Easton's, which has a much bigger circulation. Impressed?” PeopleWayWritingYearsStillsBookDoneSchoolPoliticalSocialStuffParentLaughingCouplePaperNewsDrawsBiggerYeahProfoundAcceptedFeaturesSatireImpressedCartoonMaking People LaughCirculationPolitical CartoonsWisteria Author:Elizabeth Chandler
“And anyway, the truth isn't all that great. I mean, what's the truth? Planes falling out of the sky. Buses blowing up and ripping little kids into millions of pieces. Twelve-year-olds raping people and then shooting them in the head so they can't tell. I can't watch the news anymore or look at the papers. It's like whoever sits up there in Heaven has this big bag of really crappy stuff, and once or twice a day she or he reaches in and sprinkles a little bit of it over the world and makes everything crazy, like fairy dust that's past its expiration date.” PeopleWorldYearsLooksMeanLittlesI CanBigsKidsPastFallHeavenStuffBitsWatchesMillionsPiecesSkyCrazyPaperLittle BitNewsDustShootingPlanesFairyBagsBusTwelvePapersLittle KidSprinklesBlowing UpFairy Dust Author:Michael Thomas Ford