Terence Trent D'Arby Quotes

What we view in the media - and who presents it to us - does so much to determine how we think, how we feel about ourselves, and how we view the world.

Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know.

The image of one country and its people amongst peoples of another country is largely created and sustained by the media.

I'd be so fascinated to talk to a psychologist or sociologist about the deep psychological impact of seeing oneself represented. I don't think we've really touched the surface of what it does to the psyche of a people if the only image of you out there is negative. Or if it's never out there.

Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.

Perception, after all, is not simply a matter of what you believe about yourself, it all encompasses what others think about you, and what has been thought of you historically. I say we can pay attention to those other dimensions of our identity - class, gender, sexual orientation, geographical region - while at the same time understanding how our historically produced racial identity continues to serve, or undercut us.

It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.

I've got a reputation for doing a certain type of film: lads' movies that glamorise violence. The more my reputation as a bad boy grows, the more my life moves away from that.

I'd come across a paper in an Indian feminist magazine about images of Indian women in the media, and something in me saw that it was all about how people see us. I already knew that from my childhood that people would see me and think one thing, but I always felt I was someone else. But this made me realise that I had to change how people saw me.

The belief that we are what the media says we are, what people perceive we are, is soon to be what we think we are. We are treated based on this warped perception. It is hard to get away from it.

We talk about the influence of the media on public opinion. But reality has some influence on public opinion too.

By choice, polls validate the media’s filtered view of the world.

Arab media is market driven like the American media. It does not so much shape public opinion as much as it reflects it.

Without television, Richard Nixon would not have a chance. He would not have a prayer of being elected because the press would not let him get through to the people.

In the world's eyes, what they know of me is from the blogs. What they know is from the media.

I don't get bothered by the media. There is nothing in the media that makes me lose any sleep at night.

I don't think I even have a clear perspective of how I'm depicted in the media.

It's hard not to look at the road of the media and how the media is a big part of painting a picture for public opinion.

I think a lot of times, when people who get a chance to meet me and be around me, they understand that I'm not the person that the media make me out to be.

As much as we try to deny it, media plays a huge part in how we view the world.

The media, and how we're taught to read it, has a huge impact on who we become as people.

There's stigmas attached to anything that makes you, in the public's eye, seem weak. So of course, you know, you're in a business where your image, and the way people perceive you, you are taught, is important.

I don't really take into account what the media says. People have their own opinions about what goes on, but they don't see what goes on behind the scenes with an athlete and their preparation.

You gotta understand, you can't look at no pictures and look at the media and the critics and what they saying on no Internet.