Journalist Quotes - Page 26

• Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't.

  Peter Jennings

  Thinking, Earth

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• I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.

  Peter Jennings

  People, Spirituality, Sensitive

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• As journalists, we keep pushing and pushing.

  Mary Hart

  Pushing

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• Journalists are getting big stories wrong, over and over again.

  Scott Pelley

  Stories, Bigs

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• I'm talking to a journalist and I really have nothing to say anymore, this is already uncomfortable. I feel the pain coming already. The brutal pain, when one day I should read your edit of whatever I say, because no matter what I say, no matter how I say it, no matter its tone, its frequency range, its decibel level or the way in which I put the words together, no matter my intentions and no matter the truth. What I'll read one day will be a chastised, manipulated abortion of your misunderstandings, your manipulations, your agenda and your amateur use of the English language.

  Vincent Gallo

  Pain, Talking, Abortion

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• Im sorry Im not gay or Jewish, so I dont have a special interest group of journalists that support me.

  Vincent Gallo

  Im Sorry, Gay, Support

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• This man (FreddieMercury) truly possessed the greatest voice in the history of rock. Journalists, culture experts and analysts have already made several hundred comments on this topic and nothing can be added here.

  Brian May

  Men, Rocks, Voice

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• American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy.

  Tony Snow

  Perfect, Abu Ghraib, Prison

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• I'm a mother, I'm a journalist, I'm an American; I'm all of those things, and it really complicates your job when you have all these things come into play.

  Paula Zahn

  Mother, Jobs, Play

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• No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.

  Ian Hislop

  Helping, Source, Printed

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• Well, my wife doesn't engage. I mean if you want to look back, really dig down and be a journalist, look at the timelines and you will see that there is a big discrepancy and there really is no going back and forth, my wife sometimes I mean you eventually you have to say something, enough is enough, but the truth is she has always taken the high road.

  Eddie Cibrian

  Taken, Mean, Wife

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• As long as a journalist shows fairness and honesty in his or her work, their private life shouldn't matter.

  Anderson Cooper

  Honesty, Long, Matter

  "Anderson Cooper comes out: 'I'm gay'" by Dylan Byers, www.politico.com. July 02, 2012.

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• I don't believe in journalists having 'responsibility.'

  Seth Lipsky

  Believe, Responsibility, Don't Believe

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• The problem was the journalists who also did not understand much of my music, but they wrote about it. I think you fell into the usual trap laid out by parts of the press and other writers: that the poor musician has always to fight the evil companies and managers.

  Klaus Schulze

  Fighting, Thinking, Evil

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• All murder is a tragedy but when journalists are killed, public debate loses a voice that can provide an important contribution to democracy. It is essential that governments do all they can to ensure safe conditions for journalists to carry out their work.

  Irina Bokova

  Government, Voice, Democracy

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• I begin with the basic conviction that Jews and Arabs can live together. I have repeated that at every opportunity, not for journalists and not for popular consumption, but because I have never believed differently or thought differently, from my childhood on. ... I know that we are both inhabitants of the land, and although the state is Jewish, that does not mean that Arabs should not be full citizens in every sense of the word.

  Ariel Sharon

  Mean, Opportunity, Land

  Ariel Sharon, David Chanoff (2002). “Warrior: An Autobiography”, p.543, Simon and Schuster

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• I am neither an economist nor a photographer of monuments, and I am not much of a journalist either. What I am trying to do more than anything else is to observe life.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Trying, Photographer

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• The most esteemed journalists are precisely the most servile. For it is by making themselves useful to the powerful that they gain access to the "best" sources.

  Walter Karp

  Powerful, Liberty, Libertarian

  Walter Karp (1992). “Buried alive: essays on our endangered republic”, Franklin Square Pr

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• If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.

  Diane Sawyer

  Cat, Curiosity, Curious

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• A good businessman must have nose for business the same way a journalist has nose for news.

  Orji Uzor Kalu

  Business, News, Noses

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• Journalism is the only profession explicitly protected by the U.S. Constitution, because journalists are supposed to be the check and balance on government. We're supposed to be holding those in power accountable. We're not supposed to be their megaphone. That's what the corporate media have become.

  Amy Goodman

  Power, Government, Media

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• The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes.... It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their 'betters' were derelict.

  Charles Dickens

  Class, Ordinary, Citizens

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• I watched him [a 'fat Russian agent'] with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies -- unless one counts journalists.

  George Orwell

  Lying, Agents, Firsts

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.148, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is an accepted principle of legitimacy that breaks the inner will to resist.... Flattery of the people and incapacity to resist public opinion are the democratic vices, particularly among writers, artists, journalists and anyone else who is dependent on an audience.

  Allan Bloom

  Artist, People, Democracy

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

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• If you are a reliable, honest journalist, sources will open up and trust you and share good information.

  Wolf Blitzer

  Information, Honest, Share

  "Reporting tips from Wolf Blitzer". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. August 17, 2011.

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