press quotes

• It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed. (Walter Benjamin) [opinion/press/attitude]
• The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust. (Samuel Butler) [service/press/people/approach]
• A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad. (Albert Camus) [press/press/willpower]
• The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty. (William Cobbett) [press/people]
• No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign. (Anatole France) [government/censors/press/willpower]
• I never know when I press these whether I am going to blow up Massachusetts or start the project. (John F. Kennedy) [press]
• The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion. (Karl Kraus) [press/desire/achievements/day]
• The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [press/conclusion]
• The press is like the air, a chartered libertine. (William Pitt) [press]
• There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far. (George Santayana) [press]
• There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here. (Mark Twain) [light/sun/press]
• The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie answers questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare. (Gore Vidal) [sense of duty/control/press/politicians]
• Press close bare-bosomed night -- press close magnetic nourishing night! Night of south winds! night of the large few stars! Still nodding night! mad naked summer night. (Walt Whitman) [press/night/press/night]
• In old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press. (Oscar Wilde) [men/press]
• We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death. (Oscar Wilde) [life/press/mind/desires]
• Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores. (Thomas Wolfe) [press/time/artist]
• I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are preceving you. (Nicole Kidman) [love/interest/press/internet]
• You're damned if you're too thin and you're damned if you're too heavy. According to the press I've been both. Its impossible to satisfy everyone and I suggest we stop trying. (Jennifer Aniston) [heavy/press]
• Letting Simon anywhere near the press where he can talk about me without me being able to defend myself is not something I would ever let happen unless I really had to! I am on the mend and so excited to be back with my incredible--but dysfunctional family--and everyone at Fox our best season of Idol yet. (Paula Abdul) [press/being]
• [Officials from the Fox Television Network announced Friday (August 12) that investigators found no evidence to support a former American Idol contestant's claims that he had an affair with judge Paula Abdul. According to the Associated Press, Fox officials said Paula will be back as a judge on the show's upcoming season and that they will be implementing an] enhanced non-fraternization ... I'm grateful this ordeal is over, and I'm so looking forward to getting back to the job I love. (Paula Abdul) [television/network/press/willpower]
• There's not someone who tells you how adorable you are and rubs your head and goes into a crowded press conference and stands at the back and winks at you so that you think, 'I can get through this. ( Cher) [press/think]
• 'm not doing any press tonight. (Ben Affleck) [press]
• I've never liked the press part of it (no offense), but it comes with the job. (Devon Sawa) [press]
• At 200 pounds, with a 17-inch neck, a resting pulse of 78, a bench press of 200 pounds, I was very much indeed a normal, All-American male. I carried my sickness within. (Dirk Benedict) [press/normal]
• The media destroyed the show with all the hype. All the press worked against us. We didn't become the Number 1 show in the country ,and the critics destroyed us. (Dirk Benedict) [press]
• Hardly any actor objects to press. It's a question of it being done in the way they like to see it done, meaning to get down to the serious interview what the profession is so we can reach out to the people to help them get along. (Harvey Keitel) [press/question/being/interview]
• Contrary to his fictional role, Robert has consistently impressed me with his respect for others, ... Even if the press reports are accurate, it would be unfortunate if what is at most a momentary lapse in judgment results in a criminal record that could harm Robert's reputation and his opportunity to make a future for himself. (James Gandolfini) [role/respect/press/reputation]
• She's super sharp, really smart and (has) got a great heart. She's a good mum, and she just happens to be human, and the press wouldn't allow that, and that's unforgivable. (Johnny Depp) [human/press]
• Doing the press, it's part of my job, so I do it with a smile on my face, but I'm not comfortable in the hot seat. (Kevin Bacon) [press/smile/face]
• I've been able to fly under the radar of the press for the most part. (Kyle MacLachlan) [press]
• “Their press got us going way too much. We worked on it all week, but their pressure got to us. They didn't do anything we didn't expect. We are a better ball handing team than we showed tonight.” (Tom Green) [press/team]

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