Journalist Quotes - Page 5

Best qualification for an aspiring journalist is curiosity.

History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect.

Heres the problem: Journalists just dont understand their business.

Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

I always want to know which tracks are the journalists' favourites.

When journalists come to interview me, it's a part of my life that is exhibited, as if pieces of clothing are being taken off one by one. But it's not very important really.

I hate the celebrity architect thing. I just do my work. The press comes up with this stuff and it sticks. I hate the word starchitect. Stuff like that comes from mean-spirited, untalented journalists. It's demeaning.

Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't.

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

Journalists should be people in whom there is at least a flicker of hope.

For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.

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.

Never trust a journalist unless she's your mother.

I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.

You have to draw lines between being a journalist and an activist.

Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.

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.

And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse.

As journalists, we keep pushing and pushing.

A journalist is a reporter out of a job.

You journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up.

Letting journalism be from the perspective of the journalist. It's usually a no-no, and journalists are encouraged to be completely objective.

I don't like journalists and I hardly ever talk to them.

As a journalist, I never isolated myself. I was a journalist at a daily newspaper and every day I went out on the street. Every day I had contact with people. I interviewed the most important writers of the twentieth century, and into the twenty-first century, from Simone de Beauvoir, Marguerite Duras, and Marguerite Yourcenar to Christa Wolf.

That's why we have journalists, for stats.