Nas Quotes

In this day and age of digital media, as we've learned, it's not as though nobody's going to find out what you said.

I've learned that social media and our private lives, you know, our private lives are not so private anymore, so it takes a little bit of getting used to.

The more of your private life you put into the public domain, the smaller your private life becomes.

Simply put, the Internet undermines the ability of an institution to control its own narrative.

Every embarrassing moment is going to be shown on the Internet, whether the candidate likes it or not. The ones that can't deal with that are going to fail.

Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you're being watched.

The U-Tube Moment: The cameras are always on.

Whatever may be said about the power of the press, it is undeniable that it can set the entire public thinking and talking about any topic ...

The truth is, in this age of Instagram and Facebook and Snapchat, we know way too much about athletes - and it's their fault.

If I ever wrote an autobiography - and I won't - it would be called 'Don't Google Me.'

People don't have the opportunity to be larger than life anymore - they're afraid of seeing it on the Internet.

Depending on what you do and how you do what you do, I wouldn't recommend for everyone to allow themselves to be public online. I think it also in some way, shape or form allows you to answer questions that otherwise would be lingering and dictate your own path instead of having your path dictated by the media.

We spend a lot of time trying to keep all that stuff very private. In this day in age, it's impossible. It's out in the ether and people send stuff to my house all the time. People show up at my house sometimes.

The greatest power of the mass media is the power to ignore. The worst thing about this power is that you may not even know you're using it.

I've never tried to be a celebrity chef, people call me that but I was that young boy that the media chose.

I think we - "we," meaning the media - have generally caused Americans to consume news in smaller, less contextualized bites. I think we have sugar-coated the news. I think we have provided news that is consumable, at the expense of news that is more important. I think we have created a world in which extreme views push out moderate views.

I stopped Googling myself a long time ago. I'm sure there's plenty of misinformation out there, but I am blissfully unaware of it.

The media—stenographers to power.

Remember Donald Trump had about $4 billion worth of free media, and Hillary Clinton has had about $2 billion, and we've had zero. I think it remarkable that we are standing where we are.

You cannot get through the density of the propaganda with which the American people, through the dreaded media, have been filled and the horrible public educational system we have for the average person. It's just grotesque.

The media has the power to create an entrenched perception of reality that's incorrect.

For a generation that gets most of its information off a computer screen (be it Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter or what have you), an athlete has to be very careful about the public/private aspect of that. Be careful not to be overly critical, be careful with use of language, and understand the whole world is watching.

It's a delicate thing for me, with how involved I am in social media and being a part of people's lives in a way that they want me to.

Just to stay focused on my path and not the path that other people or media want to put me in. Just to stay focused on my vision, because I put out what I want people to know about me. Everything else is what the media puts out.

It is all too easy for the liberal media to stir up the irrational hatreds of millions of people, who see themselves as less fortunate than others, by repeatedly talking about eh billions of dollars in 'windfall profits' earned by major corporations, by featuring periodic stories on the opulent living of wealthy individuals, or by pointing an accusing finger at 'loopholes' used by 'the rich.'