Pundits Quotes

There are people who tell you to shut up because you're just a celebrity, but pundits, talking heads, they're every bit the celebrity and a lot of them aren't any more qualified than the average man on the street.

Kevin Bacon

Men, Average, Talking

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I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst. I feel no compulsion to be a pundit.

Walter Cronkite

Anchorman, Editors, News

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Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Investing, Knows, Forecasts

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Conservative pundits have a remarkable amount of free speech.

Michael Pare

Political, Speech, Conservative

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The perpetrators of the actual bad stuff that does real and lasting harm to people, like leakage of industrial chemicals into water systems, seem to get not so much as a second glance; the bloviation from media pundits and think tanks creates false problems that waste time and energy debunking.

Henry Rollins

Real, Thinking, Media

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The GOP grows more and more unpopular with female voters seemingly every time one of its leaders gets in front of a microphone. Misogynist is as misogynist does. The GOP and its bloviating pundits don't like women and they are unable to hide it, nor do they seem to make much attempt to do so.

Henry Rollins

Leader, Female, Doe

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Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident.

Daniel Kahneman

Sports, Political, Columnists

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Life is more about losing than winning.

John Thorn

Winning, Losing, Life Is

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I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and theres a lot of controversy about it as a result of the Simpson case. But I have not had enough time to step back and enough time to evaluate that.

Lance Ito

Media, Cameras, Enough Time

"Ito: 'What you see is what's there'". www.cnn.com. October 24, 1995.

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But you know the second month I was here I put out a healthy lifestyles directive. The pundits will say it was because we were sued. Well that's what they say. It was never about that.

Jim Cantalupo

Healthy, Months, Lifestyle

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For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with April, when everyone had dared to hope. If baseball is a lot like life, as pundits declare, it is because life is more about losing than winning.

John Thorn

Baseball, Winning, Months

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Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.

Sarah Palin

Beautiful, War, Thinking

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I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits.

Daniel Okrent

Ridicule, Reporters, Knows

"It's curtains for Okrent". Interview with Steve Kettmann, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2005.

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Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians and pundits and popes and pretenders try to float over our heads.

Denis Leary

Trying, Speech, Comedy

Denis Leary (2008). “Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid”, p.58, Penguin

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Most successful pundits are selected for being opinionated, because it's interesting, and the penalties for incorrect predictions are negligible. You can make predictions, and a year later people won't remember them.

Daniel Kahneman

Successful, Years, People

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I'm being invaded by fashion pundits.

Steven Cojocaru

Fashion

"CNN Larry King Weekend", www.cnn.com. April 27, 2003.

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Washington has become our Versailles. We are ruled, entertained, and informed by courtiers -- and the media has evolved into a class of courtiers. The Democrats, like the Republicans, are mostly courtiers. Our pundits and experts, at least those with prominent public platforms, are courtiers. We are captivated by the hollow stagecraft of political theater as we are ruthlessly stripped of power. It is smoke and mirrors, tricks and con games, and the purpose behind it is deception.

Chris Hedges

Games, Class, Mirrors

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Cool is spent. Cool is empty. Cool is ex post facto. When advertisers and pundits hoard a word, you know it's time to retire from it. To move on. I want to suggest, therefore, that we begin to avoid cool now. Cool is a trick to get you to buy garments made by sweatshop laborers in Third World countries. Cool is the Triumph of the Will. Cool enables you to step over bodies. Cool enables you to look the other way. Cool makes you functional, eager for routine distraction, passive, doped, stupid.

Rick Moody

Country, Stupid, Moving

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Chris Christie won by such a wide margin that pundits say this will give him the impetus he needs to run for president. And he's got a new slogan: 'Put the oval in the Oval Office.'

Jay Leno

Running, Giving, Office

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It has been wisely said that you can take a child of God, put him in a dungeon with a Bible and a candle and lock him away, and he will know more about what's going on in today's world with the Word of God than all the pundits in Washington.

Adrian Rogers

Children, Dungeons, Locks

Adrian Rogers, Steve Rogers (2012). “What Every Christian Ought to Know”, p.20, B&H Publishing Group

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This business of saying the same thing over and over and over again – which to a lot of Washington insiders and pundits is boring – works.

Michael Deaver

Boring, Media Training, Saying The Same Thing Over And Over

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Plenty of pundits have really high IQs, but they don't have any discipline in how they look at the world, and so it leads to a lot of bullshit, basically.

Nate Silver

Discipline, Bullshit, Looks

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One of the great pressures we're facing in journalism now is it's a lot cheaper to hire thumb suckers and pundits and have talk shows on the air than actually have bureaus and reporters

Walter Isaacson

Air, Thumbs, Pressure

"Buying the War". "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. April 25, 2007.

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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.

Walter Isaacson

Age, Baghdad, Needs

"Buying the War". "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. April 25, 2007.

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Conservatism is constitutionally opposed to public reason, and this explains the abandon with which so many conservative pundits embrace flagrant simulations of reason, constructed through the methods of public relations, and exhibit so little regard for the real thing.

Philip E. Agre

Real, Littles, Libertarian

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