Hype Quotes

Another thing about me dealing with the old school rappers, you see a lot of humility. When you're new, nothing is wrong. Everything is tight. Because you're trying to hype the world into believing in you.

You're an island no matter what you do. I think it's very dangerous to use popularity as your identity in life. So you have to really know who you are inside, the core person, and follow what is true rather than follow what is hype.

Anyone who is on the verge of kind of famous but not really relevant is kind of fun to play with.

I always kind of say to people, don't believe the hype. You are never as good as what they say; you are never as bad, and remember that you do it just to make you happy and to enjoy it.

Keep your head down, work hard, and don't ever believe your own hype, because... you just keep working.

There is a danger in believing your own hype.

'The Victorian Internet' is a must read for anyone interested in the history of technology and in the cycles of hype, boom, and bust that seem to only quicken with each new wave of innovation. Highly recommended.

I've tried to shut myself off as much as possible from the hype of 'War Horse,' and just thought, 'OK, I'm going to focus on the character and focus on the story and focus on what I have to do.'

When 'American Slang' came out, everyone was like, 'This is the next big band in the world, and this is blah blah blah Bruce Springsteen Junior and blah blah blah,' and I was just like, 'I don't know what that means. I don't know. We'll see.'

I was told that television will be very difficult. But I think everyone just hypes it.

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.

I think I shot 78 one time. My golf game is so overrated.

I've watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it's because they tend to believe all the hype that's out there. I don't think there's that much hype about me.

Maybe it was just me shorting myself to hedge my expectations. As a fan, I was excited about the project. If you look at the body of work for the people involved, I was excited about the project, but I didn't really know. There were people saying, "I think we're going to be part of something huge."

You don't really need a lot of hype and to be famous to sell songs.

I've been hearing this since I first joined the Reds organization, that I'm going to be the next this or that. It's tough on a young player coming up. You show some positive things and everybody jumps on that and says you should be the next Willie Mays.

We don't want to keep talking about 'potential.' That word is the most dangerous word in professional sports.

I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up.

Things are rarely as exciting or dramatic as we make them out to be in the press.

The marketing of anything is full of exploitation and lies and hype.

The effect that 'Illmatic' had on us at that moment was serious.

I don't really care about no hype.

I've played at Rucker Park a couple of times. It's cold blooded. It's hype in there, real hype.

There's a lot of what I call 'bio-babble' and hype out there from a lot of bioenergy companies.