A Quote by Douglas Hurd

Diplomacy is unfashionable in the world of knee-jerk reaction and the dogmatic sound bite on television.

Douglas Hurd

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Douglas Hurd
British - Politician
Born: March 8, 1930

I'm not religious, but by nature I am spiritual. I'm an artist, and creativity seems to go hand in hand with spirituality. But I have a knee-jerk reaction against organized religions. Actually, I have knee-jerk reactions against anything that's organized.

Nikki Sixx

We live in a world that builds people's expectations so high, so when the downside comes there is a knee-jerk reaction.

Sam Allardyce

I think there's a knee-jerk reaction to things from parents.

Spike Jonze

My theory is that there's a knee-jerk reaction against technology in movie making.

Matthew Vaughn

It's tough being an actor making music, because even I have a knee-jerk reaction to that.

John Hawkes

There's always a knee-jerk reaction in our business to analyze and determine why something didn't work.

Nina Tassler

In minority communities there's a sensitivity, often a knee-jerk reaction, to critical representations. There's a misunderstanding of what an artist does.

Junot Diaz

Once I got divorced, there was this knee-jerk reaction to get back in the action and date. I think there's something wrong in that.

Chris Harrison

Politics means facing up to hard choices and facing down prejudice, short-termism, the easy, tempting court of knee-jerk public reaction.

Charles Kennedy

The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.

Edward Abbey

Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.

Edward Abbey

As much as I very much want audiences to watch FX's carefully curated and highly contextualized television shows, I'm now glad when anyone takes the time to watch even our competition's television series, as long as it demands their sustained attention and challenges their knee-jerk perceptions.

John Landgraf

There's a knee jerk reaction in Washington when something isn't perfect to just add more money, add more personnel, it'll all be OK. That's not true, especially with complex issues like veterans health care.

Dan Crenshaw

The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You look at it, you get it - it's as immediate and as superficial as that.

Matthew Collings

Since the only way you are going to find solutions to painful problems is by thinking deeply about them - i.e., reflecting - if you can develop a knee-jerk reaction to pain that is to reflect rather than to fight or flee, it will lead to your rapid learning/evolving.

Ray Dalio

Television cannot film corruption. Television cannot spend five days on a rattling railway train, talking endlessly. Television needs excitement, it needs an angle, it needs a 'sound bite.

Paul Theroux

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