Journalist Quotes · Page 16

I very much dislike being interviewed by the kind of journalist who tries to dig into your private life.

— Patrick O'Brian

I cut my teeth as a journalist writing about societies that didn't have democracy.

— Chrystia Freeland

A journalist is stimulated by adeadline. He writes worse when he has time.

— Anonymous

I know people my age (early 40s) who insist upon only writing. You know what we call them? Ex-journalists.

— Jeff Pearlman

Although they like to call themselves journalists, that's a myth even they don't really believe anymore. They're mutts on short leashes.

— Jon Rappoport

American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy.

— Tony Snow

“The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The right book at the right time, may mean more in a persone's life than anything else”

— Lee shippey

I have been fiercely private, in part because I could never understand how a journalist could be otherwise. I was also the…

— Jane Pauley

There is nothing more common than critics of journalists accusing them of practicing journalism. It is our function in the world to…

— Malcolm Gladwell

When I was a journalist... toward the end of my career, it had started to feel like there was this revolving door…

— Cord Jefferson

As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year…

— Anita Diament

I guess you could say I've written a lot about one thing as a journalist. But I hardly ever saw it as…

— Alex Tizon

I think any journalist who spends time in a place realizes that there are lots of stories around beyond their primary story.…

— Joe Sacco

It's hard any time people are sitting down and looking at you across a camera and saying, "I believe that you guys…

— Brian McGinn

The Obama administration has attempted to prosecute more journalists and journalistic sources under the same Espionage Act she was being investigated under…

— Julian Assange

In this film [The Last King of Scotland] I am the rooky in the cast. Everyone has miles of experience than me…

— Rachel McAdams

Too often, the perspectives on housing come from journalists, politicians and property experts, with a focus on the extreme ends of the…

— David Lammy

One time I was doing an interview for a gay magazine and halfway through the journalist found out I wasn't gay. He…

— Moby

It's no mystery why many of us in the media can't get enough of the fabricators Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass, the…

— David Edelstein

The first job of the historian and of the journalist is to find facts. Not the only job, perhaps not the most…

— Timothy Garton Ash

Distinguish between the work and the job title. When I was leaving school in the early 1970s, many people wanted to be…

— Howard Gardner

I'm sure Donald Trump will think that he has the truth, and some journalist is arguing that he has truth, and somebody…

— Ray Dalio

Before the internet, a journalist would write an article about a company that the company felt was unfair and missed a point.…

— Henry Blodget

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians…

— Mark Twain

“No one is too busy to pick up the phone, to make a one-minute phone call. No matter how busy they say…

— Candace Bushnell

I'm a working journalist. I'm interested in all points of view, and I draw conclusions based on facts, not just on opinions.

— Tom Brokaw

The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the griefs and shames of others.

— Janet Malcolm

We've always been journalists - and have seen ourselves in that way. But we sort of recontextualized it through music.

— Stephen Mallinder

When you are a journalist in the music business, as I was, you end up dying or going to the gym -…

— Tony Parsons

I realize that I am not a journalist. So anything I say is not important.

— Craig Ferguson

I remember everyone in high school thought I should be a journalist because I looked like Connie Chung.

— Sandra Oh

People think because 'Vice' is irreverent and because we're crazy, we're stunt journalists. You know what? I don't actually care.

— Shane Smith

My master's degree was in journalism, but everything important I ever learned about being a journalist I learned on the job.

— Rebecca Mead

I think that a lot of journalists don't really listen to music before they review it.

— Gerard Way

Deep in my heart it still feels like I'm a journalist even though I haven't worked for a paper and carried a…

— Michael Connelly

If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list.

— Hunter S. Thompson

As I point out in the very first pages of 'Into the Wild,' I approached this book not as a normal, you…

— Jon Krakauer

The job of a journalist is to find out stuff. The job of the government - sometimes - is to keep stuff…

— Alex Gibney

Listen, I can't stop anybody from having an opinion, whether they be a player, an ex-player or journalist or whatever.

— Martin O'Neill