Ben Domenech Quotes

Gawker thrived on embarrassment and shame, seeking to demolish not just celebrities or politicians but average random people whose sins it would expose for traffic and commenters who gloried in its actions.

Yeah, Wacko Jacko, where did that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that to me. It's not nice.

I am now the target of the most powerful man in this country, with an army of aides whose major responsibility today seems to be to attack me and get rid of me.

I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.

You don't just decide to destroy a person by making up stuff, and no one at 'SNL' is writing to go after someone.

Sometimes I see people writing the most ridiculous things about me.

There's really not much that people can pick on me for my work, so obviously they find other reasons to write something bad about me. I mean, people enjoy reading bad stuff about people.

For the past two years, the only thing the 'Idol' machine has been doing has been maliciously attacking my name.

Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.

It angers me that a timed, planned and paid smearing campaign is run against me in the press.

Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career.

There are people who must spend huge amounts of time composing these online diatribes against me, all about how disgusting and terrible I am and how no one should ever read my books, and it's not enough for them to hate me, they can't stand the fact that ANYONE likes me!

There are a lot more tabloids in England that like to report other things in your life, some of which are true and some of which are exaggerated and untrue. There have been stories where people claim to have seen me in one place and I wasn't even in that city then. The Aussie press is more judgmental and moralistic.

Will I ever forgive the British media for what they've done to me? No.

I've got terrible hate mail basically saying I'm vile and evil.

Renowned people from all fields receive unnecessary flak so often. Anonymity is misused, and it is a terrible thing to want to break somebody's spirit.

I was presented as a con and a fraud and a liar. I think some of the treatment was pretty cruel.

I don't know what fun newspapers and magazines derive from interfering in people's private lives.

It was the BJP that betrayed me when one of its members made the Rs 150-crore bribery allegation against me without evidence.

It's easy to go on television and say horrible things about somebody. And it's cowardly.

Today we live in a cash-for-trash world. Anyone can stand up and say anything unkind, unfair or completely untrue about you, and then they are rewarded financially for it ... because life is unfair.

If I ever modelled for Calvin Klein I'd give myself to a flock of fans to beat me silly with a baseball bat.

I've made a lot of enemies in all the right places, and there aren't enough hours in the day to respond to either the well-financed corporate hacks or the lowly stalkers who seek to libel me or make a buck off the fact that I'm a well-known person.

That moment when Kanye West secretly records your phone call, then Kim [Kardashian] posts it on the internet.

He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives him only a cruel opportunity of feeling his misery, of burying his better part, and surviving himself.