Don Hewitt famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Confrontation is not a dirty word. Sometimes it's the best kind of journalism as long you don't confront people just for the sake of a confrontation.
-- Don Hewitt

#Dirty #Naughty #Long
I plan to die at my desk.
-- Don Hewitt

#Office #Desks #Plans
The businessman only wants two things said about his company-what he pays his public relations people to say and what he pays his advertising people to say. He doesn't like anybody ever to look above, beyond or over that.
-- Don Hewitt

#Two #People #Looks
I can tell you categorically that we at 60 Minutes did not pay Michael Jackson one cent.
-- Don Hewitt

#Pay #Minutes #Cents
I've always said there are four words that every child in the world knows, and those are, "Tell me a story,." Even the people who wrote the Bible knew that. They told stories, like the story of Noah.
-- Don Hewitt

#Children #People #Stories
It's a movie, OK? I went to see GONE WITH THE WIND, but did I really believe there was a guy named Rhett Butler who said, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn"? No. Movies need heroes and villains, and real life doesn't usually have heroes and villains. Real life has a lot of shades of gray, and moves have black and white even when they're in color.
-- Don Hewitt

#Real #Believe #Moving
When there was a disaster, it used to be that people went to church and all held hands. Now the minute anything happens they run to CNN.
-- Don Hewitt

#Running #Hands #Cnn
Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the conventions should be their show, not ours.
-- Don Hewitt

#Thinking #Giving #News

Making a programme that appears to condone a positive stereotype actually enforces all the negative ones as well. It says that they all have a valid point. To assert that Americans are naive, Germans humourless and the French arrogant is one thing: they're big enough to take it. But to say that there's a conspiracy of Jewish bankers, that gypsies are thieves, Pakistanis are dirty and refugees are muggers is something quite else.
Then, there's the modern mother-in-law. In her mid 40s, she is the compact car of her breed: efficient, trim, attractive and in harmony with her times. She's pretty stiff competition for the plain young matron who's overweight and under-financed. If there is going to be friction in this relationship, it could start from envy and resentment in the younger woman. But Father Time is on her side, even if Mother Nature played her a dirty trick
Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate.
In fact she was quite bad and according to Jas she was naughty at school, but no one seems to remember that now she is all dead and perfect.
The issue for my character, and the issue of the show is, how dirty do your feet have to get without suffocating yourself in the mud in order to get an inch of what you really want done?
I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day.
Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.
It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.
You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.

Don Hewitt famous quotes

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