Martin Bashir famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Upon further reflection, and after meeting with the President of MSNBC, I have tendered my resignation. It is my sincere hope that all of my colleagues, at this special network, will be allowed to focus on the issues that matter without the distraction of myself or my ill-judged comments.
-- Martin Bashir

#Reflection #Issues #Focus
Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image.
-- Martin Bashir

#Determination #Curiosity #Stories
It's terrible. How can we tell the world who the real Michael Jackson is?
-- Martin Bashir

#Real #World #Literature
Press coverage has been difficult for him. I did not set out to ensnare him with a child.
-- Martin Bashir

#Children #Literature #Difficult
The children don't wear their masks at home and in controlled surroundings.
-- Martin Bashir

#Children #Home #Literature
The first time I ask him, have you had your cheekbones raised, have you had your nose changed? He denied it all. I was asking him to compare his face with what it looked like years ago.
-- Martin Bashir

#Years #Asking #Noses
I don't think his life has been in any way disfigured by the film. The film did disclose some difficult facts.
-- Martin Bashir

#Life #Thinking #Way
The Thriller album is still the biggest album of all time. That is still returning huge royalty cheques.
-- Martin Bashir

#Literature #Albums #Royalty
This was almost two hours of factual documentary. In our audience ratings, barely no one left the programme. The whole of his life is so fascinating and people kept watching for that reason.
-- Martin Bashir

#Two #People #Literature
We wanted to make sure that the film covered the main issues of his life. Musicianship, appearance.
-- Martin Bashir

#Issues #Literature #Film
It was a challenging experience. I'm looking forward to a break.
-- Martin Bashir

#Challenges #Literature #Looking Forward
He was very concerned about his children potentially being kidnapped or attached, and that's why they were covered up. When he went to Berlin zoo, there were 200 photographers.
-- Martin Bashir

#Zoos #Children #Literature
I never saw anything that would qualify as a criminal activity.
-- Martin Bashir

#Criminals #Saws
I have an inate curiosity about people.
-- Martin Bashir

#People #Curiosity
The film was fair to his musical achievement and gave him every opportunity to explain himself.
-- Martin Bashir

#Opportunity #Fda #Achievement
Michael Jackson has some contact with his mother. I know she is involved with the children
-- Martin Bashir

#Mother #Children #Contact
If somebody's not prepared to answer the question, you can keep asking
-- Martin Bashir

#Asking #Answers #Prepared
If you listen carefully to Rick Santorum, he sounds more like Stalin than Pope Innocent III,
-- Martin Bashir

#Sound #Innocent #Pope
A teenage taste of beer aside, Mitt Romney does not consume alcohol. Which begs the question, will total abstention put his candidacy, perhaps even this great nation in jeopardy?
-- Martin Bashir

#Teenage #Beer #Alcohol
It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it.
-- Martin Bashir

#Agreement #Advice
For watching sports, I tend to drink Guinness; early evenings always begin well with a Grey Goose and tonic with plenty of lime; and on a cold winters night, theres nothing quite like a glass of Black Maple Hill... an absolute peach of a bourbon.
-- Martin Bashir

#Sports #Winter #Night

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