Quality sells itself. No hype needed.

There is nothing in the record of the past two years when both Houses of Congress have been controlled by the Republican Party which can lead any person to believe that those promises will be...

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

In her book claiming that allegations of ritualistic abuse are mostly confabulations, La Fontaine’s (1998) comparison of social workers to ‘nazis’ shows the depth of feeling evident amongst many sceptics. However, this raises an important...

It’s about going out there, no matter who you’re playing. People try to put hype on it like they did last week, like it was the biggest game ever. No it wasn’t. It was the...

We went up to New Jersey, and there was all this hype,

Hype is a good thing, but it can also be a bad thing if you aren’t prepared to back it up.

from: The Portrayal of Child Sexual Assault in Introductory Psychology Textbooks – Elizabeth J. Letourneau, Tonya C. LewisOne of the central questions surrounding the debate on memories of CSA is how often false or repressed...

I don’t want to believe my own hype.

It is worth — given the passage of time — recalling the basic architecture of the Crisis: 121 children from many different and largely unrelated families had been taken into the care of Cleveland County...

There is nothing great about having sex or ‘not having’ sex.

It is often said that Vietnam was the first television war. By the same token, Cleveland was the first war over the protection of children to be fought not in the courts, but in the...

What’s the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you’re so ugly on the inside?

…Cleveland was the first war over the protection of children to be fought not in the courts, but in the media…Given that most of the hearings took place out of sight of the press, the...

He knows how to market himself well. Nowadays, that’s all that seems to count. He’s rebellious in a way that appeals to people with vain, shallow taste. So of course he manipulates his audiences with...

But nothing in my previous work had prepared me for the experience of reinvestigating Cleveland. It is worth — given the passage of time — recalling the basic architecture of the Crisis: 121 children from...

People are sheep. TV is the shepherd.

There’s so much hype in recruiting now, people think once they’re recruited they’re going to be great players right out of the box. That doesn’t happen, especially at quarterback. It takes two-to-three years of making...

I had the good fortune and opportunity to come home and to tell the truth; many soldiers, like Pat Tillman… did not have that opportunity. The truth of war is not always easy. The truth...

Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that we are at liberty to suppose either that nothing was...

Take all the hype out of the exercise and think of it as brushing your teeth.