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Creativity Quote by Nancy Sinatra

"I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don't give them a lot of credence"

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Nancy Sinatra’s line lands with the weary confidence of someone who’s watched the celebrity press chew through reputations for sport. “Garbage” is doing blunt work here: she’s not debating accuracy or bias, she’s refusing the premise that tabloids deserve serious engagement at all. It’s a dismissal that doubles as self-defense, the verbal equivalent of not feeding a troll.

The more interesting move is the soft hedge up front: “I think most people are aware.” She’s not declaring tabloids powerless; she’s constructing a public she can trust. That imagined audience is crucial for a performer whose image was always part of the product. If the crowd is savvy, then the scandal machine can’t fully hijack the narrative. She’s asking fans to see themselves as competent media consumers, which flatters them while quietly recruiting them to her side.

The phrase “don’t give them a lot of credence” has a generational polish, a mid-century restraint that contrasts with the tabloids’ emotional excess. It suggests she’s playing a longer game: dignity as strategy. Coming from a 1960s pop figure who lived through the rise of mass-market celebrity culture, it also reads as a boundary-setting statement about fame’s bargain. You can’t stop people from printing nonsense, but you can insist it’s background noise, not biography.

Underneath it all is a compact act of reputation management: minimize the outlet, normalize skepticism, and shift legitimacy back to the artist’s work.

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Sinatra, Nancy. (2026, January 17). I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don't give them a lot of credence. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-most-people-are-aware-of-the-garbage-in-72989/

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Sinatra, Nancy. "I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don't give them a lot of credence." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-most-people-are-aware-of-the-garbage-in-72989/.

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"I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don't give them a lot of credence." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-most-people-are-aware-of-the-garbage-in-72989/. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.

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Nancy Sinatra (born June 8, 1940) is a Musician from USA.

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