Journalist Quotes - Page 23

• If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

  Karl Kraus

  Lying, Imagination, Journalism

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• The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Recipes, Dull

  Letter to Thomas Manning, 15 February 1802 (quoting from 'The Londoner', no. 1), in E. Marrs (ed.) 'The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb' vol. 2 (1976) p. 57

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• Journalists are simply leftists disguised as reporters. They're political activists disguised as reporters.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Political, Activist, Leftists

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• Journalists should have been the first to tell people what Obamacare would mean to them. They are now the last to figure all of this out.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Obamacare, Should Have

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• The journalists are so devoted to Obama. They are such sycophants that they're worried about access.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Sycophants, Worried, Devoted

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• A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

  Walter Lippmann

  Air, Space, Long

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

  Norman Mailer

  Smart, Hands, Novelists

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• I mean, Britain is a country of successful Muslim businesspeople, teachers and educators, journalists. So, we have to say very strongly that the two million plus Muslims in Britain, the vast bulk of them make a huge contribution to our society, and they actually make it the vibrant society it is.

  David Miliband

  Country, Teacher, Mean

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's a very strange phenomenon being hated by people you've never met. Some journalists just seem to hate me and everything I do, and it's disconcerting because I've never met this person.

  Moby

  Hate, People, Strange

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• When 'Play' first came out, journalists didn't review it; it didn't get radio play. And then it became this big successful record and, I hate to admit this, I found myself liking the fame. I bought into it.

  Moby

  Hate, Successful, Play

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• I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it's in my blood.

  Mandy Moore

  Mom, College, Blood

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• And I think because of the passion of every English player and every English supporter, and every English journalist for the game, most of the game is played with passion, love for football and instinct, but in football you also have to think.

  Jose Mourinho

  Football, Passion, Player

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• There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought.

  Bill Moyers

  Honest, Politician

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• I've had journalists asking me, 'What do we call you - is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?' I said, 'Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I'm a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.'

  Aimee Mullins

  Amputees, Asking, Knees

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• George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don't want to write messages. I want to write good stories. I think of myself as a political person, but I don't state my political messages to anybody.

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, Thinking, Political

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• Journalists should think of themselves as outside the Establishment, and owners can't be too worried about what they're told at their country clubs.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Country, Thinking, Clubs

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• Why would anyone ever tell anything personal to a journalist?

  Liam Neeson

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• I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Thinking, Together, Clubs

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2015). “Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)”, p.143, Library of America

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• I wanted to be a journalist, I thought it was glamorous and that I'd meet beautiful women in the rain.

  Bill Nighy

  Beautiful, Rain, Glamorous

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  War, Ducks, Guarantees

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• Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.

  Camille Paglia

  Party, Class, Ordinary

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• Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine 'Inspire' is a 'journalist.' He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands.

  Sarah Palin

  Blood, Hands, Editors

  "Assange: WikiLeaks 'fearlessly publishing facts'". www.cnn.com. December 08, 2010.

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• When I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder the year I turned 50, it was certainly a shock. But as a journalist, knowing a little bit about a lot of things, I didn't suffer the misconception that depression was all in my head or a mark of poor character. I knew it was a disease, and, like all diseases, was treatable.

  Jane Pauley

  Character, Years, Knowing

  "TAKE ONE STEP: Caring for Depression, with Jane Pauley". www.pbs.org. 2008.

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• I am not one of the great journalists of my time.

  Jane Pauley

  My Time

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• I have been fiercely private, in part because I could never understand how a journalist could be otherwise. I was also the mother of small children, and security concerns were paramount.

  Jane Pauley

  Mother, Children, Concern

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