Journalist famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.
-- Alexander Cockburn -
Never lose your sense of the superficial.
-- Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe -
We have to protect all journalists, and journalists have to be allowed to do their jobs.
-- Amy Goodman -
It is a depressing business talking to journalist.
-- Antony Gormley -
David Carr was one of the most gifted journalists who has ever worked at The New York Times,
-- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger -
Journalists are bigger terrorists than terrorists themselves.
-- Asif Ali Zardari -
Start with local press first. Start with people you know. Don't pitch every journalist.
-- Ben Parr -
Journalists love to show their compassion.
-- Bernard Goldberg -
Don't pretend to be a journalist if you're not a journalist.
-- Bernard Goldberg -
I can't remember a single occasion when I have been kind to a journalist.
-- Bernie Ecclestone -
The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers.
-- Bill Keller -
There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought.
-- Bill Moyers -
I amused myself playing with the journalists.
-- Brigitte Boisselier -
I don't believe any Western journalists, quite frankly. I believe they're liars until proven otherwise.
-- Clarissa Ward -
Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.
-- Clive Owen -
One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.
-- Dan Rather -
Journalists never make it clear when you are joking.
-- David Bailey -
I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joyfully consuming one.
-- David Remnick -
I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.
-- Felix Dennis -
Every music journalist I've ever met has been stunningly beautiful.
-- Fred Armisen -
As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
I would never let myself knock out a journalist.
-- Gerard Depardieu -
My mother was a journalist, so writing is not unnatural to me.
-- Ginger Rogers -
You know I take music seriously, right? So I expect journalists to take being a journalist seriously.
-- Glenn Danzig -
But unfortunately, I have to say, one out of every 100 interviews I do, I get a real journalist
-- Glenn Danzig -
I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.
-- Guillermo Cabrera Infante -
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.
-- Harry Reasoner -
Journalist: 'Have you received any death threats?' Harry Redknapp: 'Only from the wife when I didn't do the washing up!'.
-- Harry Redknapp -
It's hard to market a movie when you're at the mercy of critics and journalists.
-- Harvey Weinstein -
I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.
-- Henry R. Luce -
Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it themselves.
-- Honore de Balzac -
You know journalists. You know the media. They are going to hang on to anything negative they possibly can.
-- Hope Solo -
No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.
-- Ian Hislop -
As a journalist, the details always tell the story.
-- James McBride -
Journalists have no choice but to fight back because if they don't, they will become irrelevant,
-- James Risen -
I am not one of the great journalists of my time.
-- Jane Pauley -
Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre -
Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth.
-- Jeremy Paxman -
I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.
-- Jim Harrison -
We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing.
-- Joe Klein -
Journalists become candidates for cardiac arrest when they see or hear an African American disagreeing with an African American. We would become inauthentic if we did not have disagreements with this president.
-- John Conyers -
It is no good saying we [journalists] must report only what is true because what is true cannot always be proven.
-- John Humphrys -
What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?
-- John le Carre -
I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.
-- Jonathan Demme -
Only two journalists followed the team around.
-- Just Fontaine -
Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
-- Karl Kraus -
I'm not a journalist. I'm a pundit. I'm a commentator, I'm somebody with an opinion.
-- Karl Rove -
Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.
-- Ken Auletta -
My life isn't much different than when I worked full time as a journalist.
-- Linwood Barclay -
I don't like journalists and I hardly ever talk to them.
-- Mario Balotelli -
You journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up.
-- Marisha Pessl -
And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse.
-- May Sinclair -
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.
-- Megyn Kelly -
Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.
-- Michael Arrington -
For some people it's real therapy to talk to journalists about their private lives and inner thoughts. But I would rather keep something to myself.
-- Mick Jagger -
I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.
-- Nanci Griffith -
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.
-- Neal Boortz -
No news is good news. No journalists is even better.
-- Nicolas Bentley -
A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
-- Otto von Bismarck -
I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians.
-- Owen Arthur -
For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.
-- Patricia Marx -
I never intended to make a living from music. That's the funny thing. I wanted to be a journalist.
-- Pete Seeger -
I've been a financial journalist for 30 years.
-- Peter Brimelow -
Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't.
-- Peter Jennings -
As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits
-- Peter Jennings -
To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.
-- Phil Donahue -
Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
-- R. W. Apple -
There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.
-- Ralph Fiennes -
Heres the problem: Journalists just dont understand their business.
-- Randall Rothenberg -
Journalists seem mostly interested in what brand of shoes I wear.
-- Rem Koolhaas -
There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists.
-- Robert Crumb -
Colleagues will malign you if you’re a moderately successful journalist,
-- Robert Fisk -
I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
-- Sade Adu -
Every poll shows that most journalists are Democrats.
-- Sally Quinn -
Journalists are getting big stories wrong, over and over again.
-- Scott Pelley -
I don't believe in journalists having 'responsibility.'
-- Seth Lipsky -
Everybody comes to the journalist with an agenda.
-- Shepard Smith -
I’m a journalist; I run to the fire, that’s what we do.
-- Shepard Smith -
Journalists have made celebrities into an industry.
-- Stefanie Powers -
I knew I was going to be a journalist, and that was it.. full stop.
-- Suzy Welch -
My belief is that 'recluse' is a code word generated by journalists ... meaning, 'doesn't like to talk to reporters'.
-- Thomas Pynchon -
A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write.
-- Todor Zhivkov -
Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!
-- Tom Baker -
My comments are reserved for reputable journalists.
-- Ward Churchill -
No journalist knows the ins and outs of the Allman Brothers Band better than Alan Paul.
-- Warren Haynes -
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.
-- Wendy Cope -
The journalists are poking me all the time. It's impossible for me to stop even I want to.
-- Yao Ming -
I dont think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist.
-- Benjamin Booker -
I was a freelance journalist, and it was a struggle because I had to pitch all the time, research, and stay on top of subjects.
-- David Mccandless -
When I am with French people, I am not aloof because I belong to them. My view is that the French president belongs to the French people, because he emanates from them. What I do is this: I am putting an end to the cronyism between politics and the media. For a president, constantly speaking to journalists, constantly being surrounded by journalists, has nothing to do with closeness to the people. A president should keep the media at arm's length.
-- Emmanuel Macron -
Breaking news is the most masturbating thing journalists do.
-- Felix Salmon -
A lot of journalists say, "Tell us about the '80s." Nobody wants to know about the '70s!
-- Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
