#press

Now, looking for labels, it is hard to call the Hell's Angels anything but mutants. They are urban outlaws with a rural ethic and a new, improvised style of self-preservation. Their image of themselves derives mainly from Celluloid, from the Western movies and two-fisted TV shows that have taught them most of what they know about the society they live in. Very few read books, and in most cases their formal education ended at fifteen or sixteen. What little they know of history has come from the mass media, beginning with comics ... so if they see themselves in terms of the past, it's because they can't grasp the terms of the present, much less the future. They are the sons of poor men and drifters, losers and the sons of losers. Their backgrounds are overwhelmingly ordinary. As people, they are like millions of other people. But in their collective identity they have a peculiar fascination so obvious that even the press has recognized it, although not without cynicism. In its ritual flirtation with reality the press has viewed the Angels with a mixture of awe, humor and terror -- justified, as always, by a slavish dedication to the public appetite, which most journalists find so puzzling and contemptible that they have long since abandoned the task of understanding it to a handful of poll-takers and "experts. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#mutants #poll-takers #the-press #education

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression. ↗

— Mark Helprin

#commanding #expression #most #silence #well-timed

I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose. ↗

— Daniel Craig

#evil #i #i think #necessary #necessary evil

Censure is a limp noodle across the wrist of the president. I think the way we vote on the articles will express the way we feel stronger than any censure vote. ↗

— Larry Craig

#any #articles #censure #express #feel

I am putting pressure on myself to do my best and perform to my potential. ↗

— Sidney Crosby

#best #i #i am #myself #perform

I find nothing more depressing than optimism. ↗

— Paul Fussell

#find #i #more #nothing #optimism

As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate. ↗

— Candy Crowley

#amazed #awe #country #day #debate

I've learned to relax more. Everybody feels pressure in what they do, maybe mine is just a little different because there doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day to accomplish what I want to. ↗

— Tom Cruise

#because #day #different #enough #everybody

Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather rough translation of the book they'd intended to write. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#being #being honest #book #finished #here

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales. ↗

— Marie Curie

#child #confronting #fairy #fairy tales #him