Best 167 quotes in «journalist quotes» category

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 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.

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

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

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

It is a depressing business talking to journalist.

I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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've been a financial journalist for 30 years.

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

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.

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

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'.

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

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.

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.

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

Journalists are bigger terrorists than terrorists themselves.

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.

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 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.

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

Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn't work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season was up.

Many journalists now are no more than channelers and echoers of what Orwell called the official truth. They simply cipher and transmit lies. It really grieves me that so many of my fellow journalists can be so manipulated that they become really what the French describe as functionaires, functionaries, not journalists.

Most journalists now believe that a person's privacy zone gets smaller and smaller as the person becomes more and more powerful.

Journalists often put things into either-or scenarios.

Most journalists expect me to answer all their questions about aliens and spaceships.

My belief is that "recluse" is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, "doesn't like to talk to reporters.