Hasan Minhaj Quotes

Headlines twice the size of the events.

I try to refrain from the alarmist statement, really I do. It's bad for the liver and worries the dog, who has plenty enough to worry about as it is.

Fox is great at making mountains out of molehills. Hannity is the best at it.

There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing.

No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.

I'm kind of a gossip hound, but watching the media whip the small fires into giant forest fires so that they can cover the result is infuriating.

When you live in hysteria, people start thinking emotionally.

I didn't want to start acting like a cartoon.

It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes.

All news is an exaggeration of life.

Fear makes you do stupid things.

I overdramatize.

People want to sensationalize things. That's just the nature of the business.

Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.

I think that as is true in this industry, everything gets blown out of proportion because it's more fun for people to read about. It's even more fun to read about if the stories get wilder and wilder.

Why the hell do we make such a big deal out of things that shouldn't be a big deal?

Crying wolf is a real danger.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

The sky isn't falling.

Sometimes I'll let little things get to me. Or I'll make a big deal out of little things.

Let's keep calm about this Don't overplay the story.

He cannot conceive of a tempest outside a teapot.

There is no doubt that cross border crime and illicit trade harm individuals and communities and pose challenges to governments, including the United States. But the panicked discourse and frenzied law enforcement policies that define Washington’s current approach are an alarmist reaction.

When somebody says something as a joke, the British press take things and twist them.

People who write about technology love to huff and puff and hyperbolize. The fate of the entire world seems to hang on every move made by Microsoft or Google or Apple. Every new smart phone gets billed as a potential 'iPhone killer,' while every new product from Apple represents the dawn of a new era. It's ridiculous - and exhausting.