Hype Quotes - Page 9

• I don't think I'll ever be president of anything.

  Hoagy Carmichael

  Thinking, President

  Hoagy Carmichael, Stephen Longstreet (1999). “The Stardust Road & Sometimes I Wonder: The Autobiography of Hoagy Carmichael”

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• Smart marketing is about help not hype.

  Jay Baer

  Smart, Marketing, Helping

  Jay Baer, Darren Root (2014). “Youtility for Accountants: Why Smart Accountants Are Helping, Not Selling (A Penguin Special from Portfolio)”, p.12, Penguin

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• Parece que somos capaces de un inmenso amor y lealtad, y tan capaces de engaño y atrocidad. Probablemente sea esta sorprendente ambivalencia lo que nos hace únicos.

  John Scott

  Loyalty, Unique, Atrocities

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• La tragedia es reparadora: y la razón es que la esperanza, esa cosa vil y engañosa, no tiene parte en ella.

  Jean Anouilh

  Tragedy, Deceit, Reason

  Jan Austell, Jean Anouilh, Jean Giraudoux, Bernard Shaw, Thornton Wilder (1971). "La obra como teatro"

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• I can document this past week [of presidency] we've put out memos from every agency showing what did we do. Try to be as honest as possible. There's a little hype involved obviously. It's spin because it's our agencies. We feel some pride about it. But tried to be self-critical as well.

  Barack Obama

  Pride, Past, Agency

  Fuente: abcnews.go.com

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• Todo el mundo tiene la capacidad de ser manipulador, de ser odioso y engañoso.

  Neil LaBute

  Deceit, Hateful, Manipulative

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• Until we can fully grasp the extent of corruption and fraud involved in the administration of the Oil-for-Food program, and until the United Nations decides to cooperate in the investigation, no American taxpayer dollars should go to the United Nations.

  John Ensign

  Oil, Administration, Dollars

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• This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president.

  James Baker

  President, Trying, Firsts

  "36 Days that Gripped the Nation" by CNN, www.cnn.com. January 21, 2001.

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• Es doblemente placentero engañar al que engaña.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Lying, Deception, Deceit

  "Las Fábulas de La Fontaine: Libro II". Libro de Jean de La Fontaine, 1668.

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• Some people may believe that their conscience is enough to guide them not to lie, be deceitful or do the other things God has commanded us not to do. I disagree.

  Lee Greenwood

  Mentir, Creer, Gente

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• Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits and generally low pay.

  David Korten

  Jobs, Lying, Growth

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• 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

  Believe, Quality, Danger

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• Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die out in the last 10,000 years, nor during the previous interglacial, nor the one before that. So, they're just used as a deceitful heartthrob; you know, to pluck your heartstrings because the polar bears might die out.

  Piers Corbyn

  Years, Deceit, Might

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• 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

  Believe, Pieces, Taste

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• I can say with confidence that I never bought into the hype, and I made sure that the people around me didn't buy into the hype, and I did not surround myself with people who fed me the hype. And I'm glad of that as well.

  Barack Obama

  People, Made, Feds

  Fuente: www.theatlantic.com

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• Because of media hype and woefully inadequate information, too many people nowadays are deathly afraid of their food, and what does fear of food do to the digestive system? ... I, for one, would much rather swoon over a few thin slices of prime beefsteak, or one small serving of chocolate mousse, or a sliver of foie gras than indulge to the full on such nonentities as fat-free gelatin puddings.

  Julia Child

  Media, People, Chocolate

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• The truth is always more heroic than the hype.

  Jessica Lynch

  Heroic, Truth Is

  Opening Statement Before House Oversight & Govt. Reform Committee, delivered 24 April 2007

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• It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.

  Joseph Glanvill

  Judging, May, Impossible

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• ...people will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype. They want to be hip, want always to be in on the new thing so they don't look unhip. White people are especially like that, particularly when a black person is doing something they don't understand...That's what I thought was happening when Ornette hit town.

  Miles Davis

  Music, White, People

  Miles Davis, Quincy Troupe (1990). "Miles", p.251, Simon and Schuster

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• People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?

  Claude Debussy

  People, Deception, Oblivion

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• 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

  Wall, Long, Active Management

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• Quizá esa sospecha de fraude realce el sabor.

  C. S. Forester

  Flavor, Fraud, Suspicion

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• 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 Álvarez

  Player, People, Hospitality

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• If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home.

  Theodor Herzl

  Father, Home, Thinking

  Theodor Herzl, Ludwig Lewisohn (1955). “Theodor Herzl: a portrait for this age”

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• El ejemplo es a menudo un espejo engañoso, y el orden del destino, tan inquietante para nuestros pensamientos, no siempre se encuentra escrito en las cosas pasadas

  Pierre Corneille

  Past, Destiny, Mirrors

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