Media Quotes - Page 50

So, I get a kick out of working with the media.

We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.

Recollect your thoughts don't get caught up in the mix ,cause the media is full of dirty tricks.

I am a hundred-percent Indian traditionalist! I am not "playing anything" - that is for the media to be able to say what I am doing.

We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us.

No one is to blame for the breakdown in trust between politics, media and the public.

I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss.

The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.

There really is no Johnny Carson anymore. There is no one place a comedian can appear and explode.

Don't overstate Fox News. It's still much smaller than the least of the network niches.

I don't know any astronauts. There are a lot of people who say they want to be comedians.

The media will make a controversy out of anything, if they can.

Certainly I feel like I'm the tip of the arrow at times because certainly the national media wants to talk about the fact that I'm a black Republican and some people think of that as zany that a black person would be a conservative but to me what is zany is any person black, white, red, brown or yellow not being a conservative.

The whole aim of Zen is not to make foolproof statements about experience, but to come to direct grips with reality without the mediation of logical verbalizing.

I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out.

In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public spectacles. If every private life is now potentially public property, it is because private property has undermined public responsibility.

We only think about the difficult people and the horrible things that happen. That's what gets all the media attention.

The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy.

Specifically for black women, our images and our bodies in the media and in history have been so hypersexualized.

The media is putting a lot of emphasis on the few people that are destroying, while it won't report on the silent majority of people who are constructing, building and trying to find their way.

I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.

I didn't tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I told people, it wouldn't happen. So I kept it all in my head for years and years.

I like what a third man brings. A kind of oblique vision, seeing something in the material that you didn't know was there. As a comedian, I'm always listening to the audience. And in movies, sometimes the only audience you have is the producer and the director. I like having someone else's opinion, especially if you're on the same wavelength.

Comedians walk out, get a feel for the crowd. If it's not going good, we change directions. If we got to drag your momma into this thing, we will. Whatever we got to do.

My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom.