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Quotes About Press

Coaches are basically schizophrenic. We are pessimistic to the press and among fellow coaches, but to our team, we are the eternal optimists.
~ Jim Valvano
That's what makes you so interesting, Fiona. All the male CEOs I meet are press whores. You aren't. And they bore me to extinction. They're dying to have me write about them. You won't give me a five -minute interview, and I won a Pulitzer, for chrissake.
~ Danielle Steel
At first Edward had tried hard to shield her from the press. That first year. That first, godawful, intolerable, excruciating year, when she was nine.
~ Danielle Steel
I think we should do more advertising. In the press and online.
~ Danielle Steel
In Egypt, for instance, the first printing press was set up only in 1798, by Frenchmen who were part of the abortive attempt by Napoleon Bonaparte to capture the country.
~ Daron AcemoÄŸlu
This was selfish and wasteful. Cowardly. Nobody should voluntarily give up on life. If it was your time to die, death would calmly claim you. Otherwise it was your duty to press on and live. P29
~ Darren Shan
Not in the press, no. It would cause more trouble than is warranted. People need to have faith in their government.
~ David Baldacci
headers from the last few great daily papers
~ David Foster Wallace
The House must be a steady stabilising factor in the State, and not an instrument by which the disaffected sections of the Press can attempt to promote one crisis after another.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Falsely accused, hideous press, enormous legal expense. I spent millions trying to see my daughter, Dylan, to get a less biased judge, couldn't swing it.
~ Woody Allen
According to Moses and corroborated by both the housekeeper Judy and the babysitter Sandy, she made Thaddeus wear heavy iron leg braces for public appearances rather than his lighter plastic ones because the lighter ones were worn under the trousers and would not be seen by the press photographers, and Mia wanted it publicized that she adopted the disabled.
~ Woody Allen
The "old priestly office" having been "abolished," Mann and his allies aimed to revive it, in effect, by promoting the school at the expense of the press, the lyceum, and other agencies of popular education. By giving the school system exclusive control over education, Mann's reforms encouraged a division of cultural labor that would weaken the people's capacity to educate themselves.
~ Christopher Lasch
The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is press coverage.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
There is no good press and bad press. Fame is made of quantities of attention, not qualities, and is therefore binary: There is Press or No Press. Not Hot and Cold, but Hot and Off. Attention is the currency in a world with too many people—whoever arrests the news cycle long enough to make themselves the topic, wins. Personal
~ Cintra Wilson
Since life's like that: you press a button and life lights up.
~ Clarice Lispector
To limit the press is to insult a nation to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
~ Claude Adrien Helvetius
Apparently Burgess shares the gutter press assumption that those who achieve fame should be made to suffer from it.
~ Clive James
evolución del mercado solo le llegaba en forma de «noticias», que es como la prensa se refiere a las decisiones tomadas por otra gente en un pasado reciente.
~ Unknown
Meanwhile, news has been leaked to the press that the Hero of Drummond Street will be pictured on the cover of a national magazine, nude.
~ Lilian Jackson Braun
Van Gaal is how you see him in the press conferences; he's like that with us, too. He's honest and straightforward. He believes in his style of training and way of preparing for games.
~ Juan Mata
I remember Louis van Gaal wearing a tie for every press conference. It must have left an impression because I like to look smart even if I get a bit of stick.
~ Scott Parker
There are two proper ways to use garlic: pounding and blooming. Neither involves a press, which is little more than a torture device for a beloved ingredient, smushing it up into watery squiggles of inconsistent size that will never cook evenly or vanish into a vinaigrette. If you have one, throw it away!
~ Samin Nosrat
I have, on the other hand, felt ill will from various people in the industry and the press.
~ Rob Lowe
Deborah trying to make a statement at a press conference was torture so intensely painful that I am quite sure that the men in black hoods who worked for the Inquisition would have shuddered and refused to participate.
~ Jeff Lindsay