Hype famous quotes
04-15-2025
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The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.
-- Adam Smith -
All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.
-- Adelbert von Chamisso -
Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.
-- Al Goldstein -
A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
-- Alan Turing -
The moment there's a foreigner in a film it gives a novelty to the script. We make regional films and we need to hype our films.
-- Arin Paul -
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
It is true, I worry about the hype. The only person more over-hyped than me is you.
-- Barack Obama -
This bowl has lived up to all the hype that I heard of it. Coaches...that have been here rave about the hospitality, rave about the venue and all the activities for the players. The people here have been marvelous. The bowl committee has bent over backwards to make sure that our stay is an excellent one. The players have something to do if they choose every day. You couldn't find a better place.
-- Barry Alvarez -
Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
-- Bernard Baruch -
For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.
-- Bernard Katz -
The press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype.
-- Beverly Sills -
Bush and Blair combined their efforts to deceive both nations in a carefully coordinated manner, more so than anyone is willing to point out in the media.
-- Bianca Jagger -
And what I'm telling you now is not for you to go out and try the same ways I try, or not to even try my technique. Just put it to your personality, put it to yourself, and you develop your workout. Cause those books and things, those are other people's gimmicks and hypes. Build your own gimmick and hype, and that'll make you a better powerlifter. Not just doin' it like James does it, cause if you try to fly off the building like superman you'll be out there in the middle of the street.
-- Big James Henderson -
I think the world is filled with so much hype and PR bull. Frankly, it all comes out in the end. Good or bad, I'd rather just let our accomplishments really speak for themselves.
-- Bill Ford -
You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.
-- Bodhidharma -
His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service.
-- Bruno Bauer -
Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive.
-- Bryant H. McGill -
People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.
-- Charles Dudley Warner -
For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.
-- Charles Simmons -
The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.
-- Charles Stanley -
They say don't believe your own hype, but if you don't why would anyone else? To be great you have to believe you can do great things.
-- Charley Johnson -
Despite the negativity coming from the President's opponents, the United States remains fully committed to assisting the Iraqis in restoring security and rebuilding their nation.
-- Craig L. Thomas -
I remember the day we were hanging around the band's commune and Roger came in with the press kit for a rock band (Moby Grape) any of us had ever seen. It looked psychedelic, yet it was done by ad people. I believe the word "hype" was coined on that very day.
-- Cynthia Heimel -
Dont believe the hype. It tastes like someone scraped off the bottom of a birdcage and stuck it on a piece of toast.
-- Darren Hayes -
At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud.
-- David Cameron -
I believe that people start to get into trouble when they start to believe their own hype.
-- Debby Ryan -
The easiest way to not believe your own hype is to not know what people are saying about you.
-- Debby Ryan -
We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be.
-- Denis Kearney -
I just don't want to get caught up in the hype.
-- Derrick Rose -
I think I learned a lot about not buying into a lot of hype. I wanted to be a kind of faceless entity; I didn't want to be Dhani Harrison and the Muppets or something like that.
-- Dhani Harrison -
There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.
-- Dick Cheney -
All of journalism is a shrinking art. So much of it is hype. The O.J. Simpson story is a landmark in the decline of journalism.
-- Dick Schaap -
Well, we want to make sure there's not securities fraud.
-- Don Nickles -
There have been high crimes and misdemeanors, but they have been committed by the special prosecutor and the Congress, not the president.
-- Donella Meadows -
You're an island no matter what you do. I think it's very dangerous to use popularity as your identity in life. So you have to really know who you are inside, the core person, and follow what is true rather than follow what is hype.
-- Donny Osmond -
Grunge was so self-consciously lowbrow and nonaspirational that it seemed, at first, impervious to the hype and glamour normally applied swiftly to any emerging trend. But sure enough, grunge anthems found their way onto the soundtracks of television commercials, and Dodge Neons were hawked by kids in flannel shirts saying, 'Whatever.'
-- Douglas Rushkoff -
I've spent a lot of time researching the subject and government deception. So to be involved in Star Trek is perfect for me. I enjoy meeting the fans and discussing my interests with them.
-- Dwight Schultz -
Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
-- E. V. Lucas -
A lot of people my age are so hyper. I like hyper people.
-- Edward Furlong -
Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.
-- Edward Kennedy -
There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud.
-- Edward Kennedy -
Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.
-- Edwin Louis Cole -
I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.
-- Elizabeth I -
The business is all about gush and hype. You never have a bad meeting in L.A.
-- Emily Blunt -
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
-- Eric Hoffer -
As befits Silicon Valley, 'big data' is mostly big hype, but there is one possibility with genuine potential: that it might one day bring loans - and credit histories - to millions of people who currently lack access to them.
-- Evgeny Morozov -
Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.
-- Federico Fellini -
Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, Id be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that thats the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because Ive always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.
-- Flavor Flav -
The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.
-- Flavor Flav -
I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.
-- Francine Busby -
The whole music business in the United States is based on numbers, based on unit sales and not on quality. It's not based on beauty, it's based on hype and it's based on cocaine. It's based on giving presents of large packages of dollars to play records on the air.
-- Frank Zappa -
I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.
-- Freddie Mercury -
It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.
-- Freddie Mercury -
Men still have to be governed by deception.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg -
It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush.
-- George Galloway -
Ghostface, catch the blast of a hype verse, My glock bursts, leave in a hearse, I did worse. I come rough, tough like an elephant tusk, Ya head rush, fly like Egyptian musk.
-- Ghostface Killah -
What's sad is that there is an addictive quality to that, to believing your own hype; to allowing yourself to become validated by others and no longer by yourself. That's the danger of celebrity
-- Giovanni Ribisi -
But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England for that period, and his mind will be satisfied, if he has a mind to be satisfied and not only a fancy to run away with him.
-- Goldwin Smith -
There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.
-- Guy Debord -
A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.
-- Harry S. Truman -
The last president we had was the smartest guy anyone could remember and he did the dumbest thing anyone has ever seen in the White House so go figure.
-- Harry Shearer -
Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.
-- Henry A. Wallace -
With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.
-- Henry A. Wallace -
There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.
-- Henry A. Wallace -
This hype word bothers me though It always sounds like an accusation, what does it mean, advertising, column inches in the press? Bands themselves are never really responsible for all of that. That is something that happens to you when you sell millions of records.
-- Holly Johnson -
Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.
-- Hugo Black -
I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up.
-- Ice T -
Looking back at Batman from a distance after all the hype has dried up and the franchise has at least temporarily been abandoned it's easy to see the movie for what it is: a moderately diverting motion picture that should have been shorter and better paced. There are a lot of things wrong with Batman , but it still makes for decent entertainment in the fine tradition of the typical low-intelligence summer movie. The best thing that can be said about Batman is that it led to Batman Returns , which was a far superior effort.
-- James Berardinelli -
This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare.
-- James Forrestal -
Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
-- Jane Austen -
When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the 'Eventocracy.' All this flashy 'art-fair art' and those highly produced space-eating spectacles and installations wow you for a minute until you move on to the next adrenaline event.
-- Jerry Saltz -
The truth is always more heroic than the hype.
-- Jessica Lynch -
You know, I had the ability like a catalyst to really get everybody hyped up.
-- Jim Capaldi -
Do not buy the hype from Wall St. and the press that stocks always go up. There are long periods when stocks do nothing and other investments are better.
-- Jim Rogers -
Well, Led Zeppelin IV! That's it really. I'll tell you why the album had no title - because we were so fed up with the reactions to the third album, that people couldn't understand why that record wasn't a direct continuation of the second album. And then people said we were a hype and all, which was the furthest thing from what we were. So we just said, `let's put out an album with no title at all!' That way, either people like it or they don't... but we still got bad reviews!
-- Jimmy Page -
You have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what's happening round you, no matter what the hype or the publicity, you can still manage to make leaps in your work as an artist.
-- Jimmy Smits -
Despite all the hype about local or green food, the single biggest impediment to wider adoption is not research, programs, organizations, or networking. It is the demonizing and criminalizing of virtually all indigenous and heritage-based food practices.
-- Joel Salatin -
Everybody's saturated with the marketing hype of next-generation consoles. They are wonderful, but the truth is that they are as powerful as a high end PC is right now.
-- John Carmack -
I'm very pleased with the job President Bush is doing and he's off to a terrific start.
-- John Engler -
The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.
-- John Tillotson -
Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled.
-- John Wanamaker -
Obviously there will be a backlash. If you believe the hype you have to believe a backlash too. Any criticism we get, is always stuff we've already criticized ourselves.
-- Jonny Greenwood -
I'm completely removed from any hype that comes my way.
-- Justin Timberlake -
We have a system that allows us to manage a free and fair election, free of fraud, free of intimidation, and that's what we delivered on election day, and we're very very proud of it.
-- Ken Blackwell -
Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.
-- Kenneth Koch -
[.....] most of the environmental hype [regarding global warming] is really to help bring about Karl Marx's dream (nightmare) of a Communist world." [by reduction, and ultimately elimination of private property rights
-- Kent Hovind -
When a reporter files a piece about Republican that slams Republican or law enforcement or hypes up climate change, there's no attempt to expose their bias, to look at their background. And then when you find out later that they usually have a bias.
-- Kimberly Guilfoyle -
I stayed away from drugs, I never smoked a pipe. When I wanna get high, I smoke the mic. I never did white lines, I only write lines, and I ain't sniffin' nothing but the vapors from hype rhymes.
-- Kool Moe Dee -
I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it.
-- Larry Hagman -
There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.
-- Leon Kass -
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.
-- Lord Acton -
The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
-- Luc de Clapiers -
I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit.
-- Lucien Bouchard -
Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.
-- Lucinda Williams -
The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.
-- Lynn Westmoreland -
Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody and chances are you're probably going to invest in somebody who's going to deceive you. I've been conned a couple of times, but now I'm a little more savvy.
-- Maggie Gyllenhaal
