Marie Colvin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We always have to ask ourselves whether the level of risk is worth the story. What is bravery, and what is bravado?
-- Marie Colvin

#Bravery #Risk #Levels
Bravery is not being afraid to be afraid.
-- Marie Colvin

#Courage #Bravery #Being Afraid
Despite all the videos you see from the Ministry of Defence or the Pentagon, and all the sanitised language describing smart bombs and pinpoint strikes, the scene on the ground has remained remarkably the same for hundreds of years. Craters. Burned houses. Mutilated bodies. Women weeping for children and husbands. Men for their wives, mothers children.
-- Marie Colvin

#Mother #Husband #Children
... war reporting is still essentially the same - someone has to go there and see what is happening. You can't get that information without going to places where people are being shot at, and others are shooting at you. The real difficulty is having enough faith in humanity to believe that enough people, be they government, military or the man on the street, will care when your file reaches the printed page, the website or the TV screen.
-- Marie Colvin

#Military #Real #War
Be passionate and be involved in what you believe in, and do it as thoroughly and honestly and fearlessly as you can.
-- Marie Colvin

#Believe #Passionate #Honestly
Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice. We always have to ask ourselves whether the level of risk is worth the story. What is bravery, and what is bravado? Journalists covering combat shoulder great responsibilities and face difficult choices. Sometimes they pay the ultimate price.
-- Marie Colvin

#War #Responsibility #Bravery
Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice,
-- Marie Colvin

#War #Prejudice #Horror
Our mission is to speak the truth to power. We send home that first rough draft of history. We can and do make a difference in exposing the horrors of war and especially the atrocities that befall civilians.
-- Marie Colvin

#War #Home #Differences

I'm brave to say that I won't take this sort of risk.
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
A brave soul is a thing which all things serve.
Feminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power
He squeezed Steve's shoulder possessively. "Oh, Zero. He is not you, I must admit. He does not have your bravery, your nobility, your je ne sais quoi, and all he talks about is this magical place called 'Canada'.
And as experienced as I am, it still summons an act of bravery from me, and I like that. I like the idea of setting an example - proving that it is acceptable to be alone in a public place where everyone else is in groups, and to just be sitting there eating, not having to be engrossed in anything else.
The world is not limited by IQ. We are all limited by bravery and creativity.
Life is all about taking risk to get what you want.
There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.
I think I've reduced the amount of blood in my caffeine system to an acceptable level.

Marie Colvin famous quotes

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