Best 167 quotes in «journalist quotes» category

I definitely care about how the concept of New York punk was constructed, and why it mattered. But I wasn't gonna do that. Partly because I'm not a great journalist...

I don't believe any Western journalists, quite frankly. I believe they're liars until proven otherwise.

I feel that a documentarian has an obligation to tell the truth as he or she interprets it. And what I mean by that is that documentarians don't necessarily have the same sort of obligations that a journalist might have. A journalist might be called upon to be objective, whereas a documentarian is sort of forced to take sides.

I dont claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure.

If a journalist calls you a racist, chances are, all other journalists will call you a racist.

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

I don't think journalists should talk about whom they're voting for.

I'd rather [the collection] have no title. Journalists like titles. That's why I give them to you.

I got here when I was 12, I found out I was undocumented when I was 16, I became a journalist when I was 17, and all I ever did was write other stories to run away from myself.

If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list.

If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously.

I like roundtables because you can talk more directly to people. And you also can get kind of a vibe on what a journalist's take is on something, and have a conversation with them more.

I have respect for my fellow journalists at the other networks, and I wish them all well. This is a tough business, so good for them.

I'm not strong-willed enough or unkind enough... or maybe simply not wise enough to tell a journalist that a subject is out of bounds.

I like to be open with journalists and I like to be honest. I hate being disingenuous because that's really uncomfortable for me; I don't excel at doing that.

I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joyfully consuming one.

I'm an entertainer. Not a journalist or spokesman for anybody. Truth is, a lot of my listeners absolutely hate what I have to say.

I'm not a journalist. I'm a pundit. I'm a commentator, I'm somebody with an opinion.

I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

I never intended to make a living from music. That's the funny thing. I wanted to be a journalist.

I'm really bad at describing my books. Journalists like to have things like "It's The Terminator Meets the Seven Dwarfs." And I can't do that with my books. If I could, I probably wouldn't write them.

I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

I see myself as a recovering journalist.

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.

It's not like that when you're a songwriter - songwriters aren't like pulp writers or journalists, even. You just follow the muse. It's called muse-ic. Whenever the muse decides to bestow her inspiration on the songwriter, then the song is born.

It is a depressing business talking to journalist.

It is not easy to stop brown envelope because journalists are part of the society

It is no good saying we [journalists] must report only what is true because what is true cannot always be proven.

I've had journalists beg me to please say something negative about my estate.

I've been a financial journalist for 30 years.

It was always amusing to be inside Apple and read what journalists said we were doing

I've definitely written people e-mails telling them I've loved their stories, but that seems more like a professional journalist thing to do.

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

I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.

I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.

I worked for a brief spell as a journalist, but soon I discovered that I didn't want to be a journalist - I wanted to be a historian.

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'.

Journalists are bigger terrorists than terrorists themselves.

Journalists always like an excuse for why are they talking about something now when they didn't talk about something a week ago. They always like to say something is new.

Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.

Journalists don't retire, writers don't retire. I'm still hoping for that other big story. There's always one just around the corner.

Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.

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

Journalists have made celebrities into an industry.

Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.

Journalists often put things into either-or scenarios.

Journalists were killed because they defended freedom. Policemen were killed because they were protecting you. Jews were killed because they were Jewish.

Journalist: 'Have you received any death threats?' Harry Redknapp: 'Only from the wife when I didn't do the washing up!'.

Journalists have no choice but to fight back because if they don't, they will become irrelevant.