Quotes and Sayings About Hype
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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 ChamissoSource : Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.52, Mondial
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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 TuringSource : "Computing Machinery and Intelligence". Book by Alan Turing, 1950.
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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 PaulSource : "Tolly-ho! on The Telegraph, Calcutta". telegraphindia.com, 2008.
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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 DoyleSource : Sherlock Holmes in "The Boscombe Valley Mystery" (1891).
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It is true, I worry about the hype. The only person more over-hyped than me is you.
-- Barack Obama -
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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 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 -
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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 -
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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.
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People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.
-- Charles Dudley WarnerSource : Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.44, ReadHowYouWant.com
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For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.
-- Charles Simmons -
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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 -
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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 -
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 CameronSource : Gloria Gaither (1997). “Because He Lives: The Stories and Inspiration Behind the Songs of Bill and Gloria Gaither”, Zondervan Publishing Company
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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 -
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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