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"It was incredibly cheesy set with torches [TV's Survivor] - it looked like the lobby of the Enchanted Tiki Room at Disneyland. And here as some guy pulling names out of a coconut, and I said, 'This is the thing that has made American mass media stop in their tracks?"
"Yeah! I got type-two diabetes! I'm sure there's going to be some media scandal now, saying I got it because I gained and lost weight for movie parts or something - but I doubt that."
"The easiest thing to do is to rag on the media, because it isn't doing a very good job right now. It is so much easier to profit from celebrating the worst aspects of ourselves. Acting strikes me as the antithesis of that. We can examine the worst aspects of ourselves, but we don't have to celebrate them."
"Now, by and large, people are recording material to put on YouTube. I have a theory that YouTube is, in the end, the #1 media for musicians. Which is strange, because there's a visual associated with it."
"Well, they'll bark you down like carneys, sell you Christmas cards in June."
"In truth the social media elements of the Obama campaign, while extremely innovative, did not produce a lot of results."
"At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media."
"Black Friday is a media trap, an orchestrated mass hallucination based on herd dynamics and the media cycle."
"The reason social media is so difficult for most organizations: It’s a process, not an event."
"You can define advertising as the science of creating and placing media that interrupts the consumer and then gets him or her to take some action."
"I think the media has changed, not just in England but in the world."
"I think my work shows that I love women. I understand where these types of criticisms are coming from because black people have been so dogged out in the media, they're just extra sensitive."
"It is impossible to do a movie exactly the way a comic book is written and drawn, just as it's impossible to do a movie exactly like a novel or exactly like anything else. When you go to different forms of media, you have to adapt."
"The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line."
"The media is tremendously important for all governments that are able to communicate through the it. It doesn't mean there is a balance of editorial opinion that favors what you are doing or that the opposition doesn't have its voice, but you have to be able to effectively communicate your story through the media."
"You know what I think happened? After 'Rocky,' I was almost set up in the eyes of the media to make a flop."
"There are good reasons why everybody should heed politicians' advise not to believe the media. One of the best is that the media report what politicians say."
"Right, we've got these institutions of media, these financial institutions, we have the means of distribution, we have the means of production, we have all these markets and maxims in place. How do we alter the consciousness, the fundamental unifying field? How do we influence change on that level to all of the world?"
"I was literally calling my customers who were complaining on social media and having a dialog with them, and sending them money."
"I'm not a media darling. I'm forever the outsider, for whatever the reason is."
