Journalist Quotes - Page 24

• Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.

  Sam Peckinpah

  Giving, Interviews, Should

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• I once told a journalist that girls call me 'Kitten,' but I couldn't have been more sarcastic, and no matter how many times I've said that it was a joke, it still doesn't go away.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Girl, Sarcastic, Going Away

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• The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Hands, Generations, Republic

  Joseph Pulitzer, Michael Edgar Pulitzer (1989). “Pulitzer Publishing Company: Newspapers and Broadcasting in the Public Interest”

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• Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In my judgment, a journalist's job is very interesting.

  Vladimir Putin

  Jobs, Interesting, Collecting Information

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• Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.

  Dan Rather

  Funny, Government, Public Opinion

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• One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.

  Dan Rather

  Important, Roles

  "Dan Rather: 'Quote approval' a media sellout" by Dan Rather, www.cnn.com. July 19, 2012.

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• This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.

  Dan Rather

  Art, Mistake, Blow

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 2, 2005.

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• I think documentary filmmakers need as much protection as possible under journalist's privilege. How else is the public to know what is going on?

  Robert Redford

  Thinking, Needs, Documentaries

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• The big moment for me was making 'All the President's Men'. It was not about Watergate or President Nixon. I wanted to focus on something I thought not many people knew about: How do journalists get the story?

  Robert Redford

  Men, People, Focus

  "Robert Redford Revisits 'All the President's Men'". Interview with Mike Banka, www.aarp.org.

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• My mother was a journalist, so writing is not unnatural to me.

  Ginger Rogers

  Mother, Writing, Unnatural

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• The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work. They are increasingly seen as not being neutral but rather as combatants by one side or the other.

  Salman Rushdie

  Years, Numbers, Rising

  "The Art of Bravery: An Interview with Salman Rushdie". Interview with Shaun Randol, lareviewofbooks.org. April 25, 2013.

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• I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.

  Jessica Savitch

  Peers, Literature, Serious

  Jessica Savitch (1982). “Anchorwoman”, Thorndike Pr

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• And I came away from that experience, and it was a very difficult experience - I came to understand that you have to practice at being a good father and practice at being a good husband, just as you have to practice at being a good journalist.

  Bob Schieffer

  Husband, Father, Practice

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• When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living through the lamest music era the world would ever see. But those were also the years when hip-hop exploded, beatbox disco soared, indie rock took off, and new wave invented a language of teen angst.

  Rob Sheffield

  Rocks, Years, Indie Rock

  Rob Sheffield (2010). “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut”, p.11, Penguin

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• A lot of journalists give me a hard time about how I look, but I've never met a journalist I'd rather look like.

  Robert Smith

  Hard Times, Giving, Looks

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• You know journalists. You know the media. They are going to hang on to anything negative they possibly can.

  Hope Solo

  Media, Negative, Knows

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• Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.

  Leigh Steinberg

  Athlete, Years, Chance

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• Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Journalism, Sometimes, Live By

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• Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Funny, Journalism, Virtue

  "Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations". Book by Jonathon Green, 1982.

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• Everybody I knew, practically, was a journalist when I was a kid - my father, all of his friends. I never wanted to be like those people.

  Matt Taibbi

  Father, Kids, People

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• Everyone with a cell phone thinks they're a photographer. Everyone with a laptop thinks they're a journalist. But they have no training, and they have no idea of what we keep to in terms of standards, as in what's far out and what's reality. And they have no dedication to truth.

  Helen Thomas

  Reality, Thinking, Dedication

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• I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder.

  Cicely Tyson

  Relationship, Men, Thinking

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• I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.

  William Butler Yeats

  Hate, People, Earth

  William Butler Yeats (1954). “The Letters of W.B. Yeats”

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• The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play.

  Oswald Spengler

  Army, Play, Soldier

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• I realize that I am not a journalist. So anything I say is not important.

  Craig Ferguson

  Important, Realizing

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