William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes

We don't read a lot of what people say about us.

What you say about the newspapers is very true ... They are indeed a curious compound of truth and untruth. I am so used to newspaper nonsense and attacks that I do not mind it in the least....

You know, people hate me or love me and I just don't even bother paying attention to it anymore.

The press keep asking me, 'What was your biggest mistake?' But if I had made a big mistake, they'd all be writing about it, wouldn't they?

When we did 'The Office,' no one knew who we were, so it was easy to champion us; you could own us. Once you become successful, people don't have that any more, so it becomes more polarised. Some people want to champion you, and others want to slag you off. It doesn't concern me.

People are terrified for their own reputations. They want the press on their side.

I mean, I don't really pay too much attention publicly to what people think.

Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.

People who know me, love me. People who don't know me love me too... or they hate me.

But I think, if you're in the spotlight, people are going to say bad things, and that's just the way it is.

I suppose my look, the way I play - you combine all that sort of stuff and that makes people interested in what I actually do. So then, when off-the-field stuff happens... I suppose it's one of those cocktail mixes.

By evil report and by good report.

It's not a very good idea to make an enemy of anyone who buys ink by the barrel.

What matters to the press matters perforce to politicians.

I am being portrayed as some kind of a medieval monster ... a megalomaniac. If the people were to really believe all that the press has written about me then I must be the most evil person in the country today.

Heavy media attention legitimates anything …

I am reading it [his press coverage] more and enjoying it less.

Don't believe anything they write about you, good or bad.

There is no person in this town who is doing particularly well at the moment when it comes to the opinions of the American people.

If printers (publishers) only printed that which everyone liked, there would be very little printed

I don't really worry too much about what people say. I guess it's good that people talk about me.

At the end of the day, even if you are cooler than Obama, the media will never let you be cooler.

I don't mind if what they write about me has some truth in it. Pure imagination makes me feel sad about the whole thing.

Everybody gets talked about. Jesus Christ got talked about. It's just what happens. It's just part of it. And if people aren't talking, it's like, who are you? So I really let the people talk.

You know that once you're successful, there's going to be good things and bad things that people say and, honestly, to me it doesn't really matter.