Information Avoidance Quotes

I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will occasionally discuss them if other people want to discuss them.

I don't really read the papers.

I don't read the papers or watch TV.

Honestly, I don't read the press. I don't know what they're saying.

I never read anything in print about me. It started with not reading reviews and with the greatest respect to my publicist here, I never read interviews. I was there when I gave them. I never read reviews. I was there when I did the jobs - so I'm totally immune. I live in a bubble.

The second the news comes on TV, people turn it off or tune it out. People don't want to hear the other side.

I don't read newspapers or watch the news on TV, deliberately to avoid the noise.

There's so much knowledge to be had that specialists cling to their specialties as a shield against having to know anything about anything else. They avoid being drowned.

No, I don't read the papers. I just look at the pictures.

I don't read a lot of things, and if I hear things, I don't really think about them because it's useless.

The difficulty in connection with asking questions and obtaining information is that we might obtain information which I personally would rather not have…

When I see a headline 'Guess who's going out with who?' I don't guess, and I don't click.

I don't read the newspapers, to be quite honest with you.

I don't read the newspapers, I don't watch the news. I figure, if something important happens, someone will tell me.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

I watch political shows for a number of weeks in a row, and all I see are guys arguing with each other over issues I have no idea about. My brother, he loves war-torn places. My dad would always read the paper and tell me I should watch CNN, but I usually wind up watching 'Breaking Bad.'

I try not to read Google.

We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it, and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late.

What a lot of people don't realise about me is that I have no idea what's going on in the media. I don't pay any attention to it, as I consider it mind pollution. The last time I touched a computer was in 2001, and my phone is too old to use the Internet. I just don't enter into it at all on any level.

I've consciously avoided actually reading anything about Wikipedia.

I don't go online, I don't read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet.

I don't read a lot of the sports, because I think people sometimes either build it up, or you have this guy that hates sports that is going to write bad about it, so I figure I'm not going to read it. Because I'm not going to let him put an idea into my head.

I don't watch the nightly newscasts on TV . . . nor do I watch the endless hours of people giving their opinion about things. I don't read the editorial pages; I don't read the columnists. It can be a frustrating experience to pay attention to somebody's false opinion.

I didn't look at any of the newspapers, I look at the pictures sometimes, but apart from that I don't read them.

I don't even read social media.