Hype Quotations

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

To be sure, boxing has always been, at best, a shady and sometimes cutthroat business, buttressed by hype and tomfoolery rivalling, at times, that of carnival circuses.

All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.

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.

I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit.

Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.

The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.

No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.

Once again our cricketers have flattered to deceive in Australia.

We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that.

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.

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.

I love conspiracy theories. I used to just live on it. You know it's all hype and garbage, but you're still really paranoid afterwards. It's fun entertainment.

Bob Dylan's not a hype and a haircut: he's the real thing.

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.

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.

I think any time you lose an Ashes series, especially with the hype and build-up surrounding it and the pride we have as Australians playing against England, that's always hard to take.

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

I'm completely removed from any hype that comes my way.

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.

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.

Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.

The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

The entertainment industry is encouraging young people to defy and deceive their parents.

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.

I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

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.

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.

I think the problem I have with films is that, because there's so much hype around them, they become bigger than they should be, really. There are things that people do every day in their little workshops that they'll take to heaven with them. You've got to realise that it's not everything, making films.

When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.

Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service.

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.

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.

Modi Model of Development is more a hype than reality, and the Congress has always stood for inclusive development.

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

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.

Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.

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.

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.

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.

A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush.

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.

Apparently Iran thinks that it can continue to deceive the world in order to reach its goals.

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.

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.

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.

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.

The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.

Don't believe the hype. I don't care how many number ones you have at the box office, I don't care how much they say you're great, don't believe it. Just stay in your lane and do what you're supposed to do.

I believe that people start to get into trouble when they start to believe their own hype.

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.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom - never.

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

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.

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

My own saying is: 'Create the hype, but don't ever believe it.'

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.

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

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.

People make a big fuss over you when you're President. But I'm very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn't go to my head.

When President Jiang Zemin visited India in 1996, the two sides decided that they would jointly build a constructive partnership of cooperation oriented towards the 21st century.

You can't know your real mind as long as you deceive yourself.

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.'

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.

In my opinion, right now there's way too much hype on the technologies and not enough attention to the real businesses behind them.

It's a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary war and will continue to argue that the best way to support our troops is to bring them home.

A lot of people my age are so hyper. I like hyper people.

The fact that hype exists doesn't prove that something is not important.

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.

It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.

President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.

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.

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live.

In whose interest is it to hype up the collapse of the Internet from a DDoS attack? Why, the people who provide cyber security services, of course.

Men still have to be governed by deception.

You become very known for being someone's girlfriend, and all of a sudden there's all this hype and buzz for all the wrong reasons.

I guess the President says the majority of the people didn't elect him, he doesn't have to listen to 'em anyway.

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.

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

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

I'd gone from being this art student messing about with music to this girl with a record deal, magazine front covers and all this hype. In many ways, it was everything I ever wanted, but when it happened all I felt was total, paralysing fear.

Just don't let the hype of what people are saying and how much they love you, y'know, just take the compliment and be thankful that people are complimenting you, but don't let it consume you; don't let your circumstances around you and the way people view you make you act a certain way.

I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.