Cnn Quotes - Page 3

• CNN can still afford 36 bureaus around the world.

  Jim C. Walton

  World, Around The World, Stills

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• Believe it or not, I got into the charismatic, shady, sly heart of Sedgewick Bell by watching CNN and C-SPAN.

  Emile Hirsch

  Believe, Heart, Bells

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• CNN’s Rick Sanchez said the Jews run CNN. Ah, so that’s who we blame for Rick Sanchez.

  Conan O'Brien

  Running, Blame, Said

  Twitter post from Oct 02, 2010

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• I watch some CNN and a lot of Fox, because it helps me get irritated.

  Lewis Black

  Watches, Foxes, Helping

  "Lewis Black finds no shortage of stupidity". Interview with Steven Winn, www.sfgate.com. June 24, 2009.

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• CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Air, Issues, People

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• The AP has only so many reporters, and CNN only has so many cameras, but we've got a world full of people with digital cameras and Internet access.

  Howard Rheingold

  Internet Access, People, Cameras

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• If money can't be made reporting and writing articles, then professionals simply can't do it anymore. Unless we adopt the position that the amateur blogosphere is really capable of taking on the role that the 'New York Times' and CNN play, then we do need solutions for paying for content.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  New York, Writing, Play

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• Once he entered my life, I promptly forgot all my years of putting on a brave face while browsing at bookstores until closing time, and of having one, two, three beers while watching crime shows and CNN. I completely forgot the hateful sensation of loneliness, like thirst and hunger together pressing on my stomach.

  Douglas Coupland

  Loneliness, Beer, Brave Face

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• It makes you very cool," he said, taking big, jumping steps to get in front of me. "CNN would interview you, for sure. Daughter of Flobie! But don't worry. I'll keep them back!

  Maureen Johnson

  Daughter, Jumping, Worry

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.33, Penguin

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• I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.

  Ted Turner

  Mean, Cartoon, Cartoon Network

  "Ted's tears". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2002.

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• It's as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you're living in some kind of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart.

  Alain de Botton

  God, Spiritual, Religious

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• I was first to break the news about the death of Lady Diana. The CNN team couldn't get into makeup fast enough.

  Matt Drudge

  Team, Makeup, News

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• I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the "black people's CNN." Well now, hip-hop is more like Fox News. It's biased, and highly suspect.

  Saul Williams

  People, Hip Hop, Black

  "Hip-hop's poet laureate speaks out". Interview with Tyson Wheatley, edition.cnn.com. January 17, 2005.

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• I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.

  Ted Turner

  Buying Things, Humanity, Television

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• When I started CNN, I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn't going to come from me.

  Ted Turner

  Decision, Mind, Doers

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", edition.cnn.com. May 28, 2012.

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• I'm a singer, not a politician, and I think you don't want the two to get confused. It's not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.

  Bono

  Confused, Thinking, Talking

  "Relief Pitcher". Interview with Susan Dominus, archive.nytimes.com.

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• I'm not besotted with the notion of being on CNN to the point that I'm going to suddenly morph into Anderson Cooper or Christiane Amanpour. I'm not a foreign correspondent.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Notion

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• I'm not searching for hard news; I'm not a journalist, but I'm interested in pushing to boundaries of where we can do the kind of stories that we want to do. I mean, it's a big world and CNN has made it a lot bigger and they haven't flinched.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Mean, Pushing, News

  "An Interview With Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert". Interview with Jamie Soja, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2013.

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• I can watch CNN on television or the Internet to find out what happened in Hong Kong ten minutes ago. After all, it doesn't matter where something is made, we're all part of the same big family now.

  Jet Li

  Big Families, Watches, Television

  "'The World Is My Oyster'". Interview with Stephen Short, www.cnn.com. Apr 12, 2000.

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• We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Past, Numbers, Worry

  "The Future of the World" by Bjorn Lomborg, www.esquire.com. April 21, 2009.

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• CNN is pretty consistently on the left, if you look at their choice of stories, what they play up. It's not what they say. It's what they highlight.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Play, Choices, Looks

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• I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.

  Ted Turner

  Years, News, Half

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• When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.

  Ted Turner

  Responsibility, Action, Publishers

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• I've been playing the CNN Drinking Game, have you ever played that? Where you do a shot every time George Bush says the word "evil"? Oh, I'm a wreck! You gotta do a double shot every time he says "evildoers". Chug the bottle for "axis of evil". Are you a president or an exorcist?!

  Doug Stanhope

  Funny, Drinking, Humor

  "Doug Stanhope: Word of Mouth". Comedy, November 2002.

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• It's time for me to give out an award to newly elected Majority Leader John Boehner. Mr. Boehner was elected just a few days ago to reform House Republicans, who are feeling the heat from lobbyist scandals. Well, CNN found out that he rents his two-bedroom apartment from a lobbyist who had clients who had interests in legislation that Boehner sponsored. And for that, Mr. Boehner, you've just won a pair of Stephen Colbert's big brass balls.

  Stephen Colbert

  Two, Awards, Majority Leader

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