Journalist Quotes · Page 5

I always wanted to be a serious journalist.

— Jeannette Walls

I knew I was going to be a journalist, and that was it.. full stop.

— Suzy Welch

Most journalists are broken down alcoholics.

— James Purdy

Why would anyone ever tell anything personal to a journalist?

— Liam Neeson

I have never, in 50 years, ever missed a deadline [as a journalist].

— Khushwant Singh

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

— Michael Pollan

I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.

— Anonymous

I'm not a politician; I'm a journalist.

— Maria Ressa

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

— Pete Seeger

There's no law preventing a journalist from publishing whatever they want.

— Asha Rangappa

My challenge was even greater as a journalist, because this was happening in my own backyard.

— Paula Zahn

Having a parent who served in the military has made me a better journalist.

— Harris Faulkner

I don't claim to be a journalist. I hold myself to higher standards of transparency and disclosure.

— Michael Arrington

I always wanted to be part of the media. I knew I wanted to work as a journalist.

— Ana Kasparian

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…

— Wendy Cope

It was always amusing to be inside Apple and read what journalists said we were doing

— Donald A. Norman

But you certainly don't have perspective. And there's so much pressure going into that opening night because you know there's journalists, tons…

— James Ponsoldt

“It's always worrying to see a journalist take a sudden interest in what you're saying, especially when you half suspect it was…

— Terry Pratchett

The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in…

— Russell Baker

When interviews are good, the conversation can be amazing. Sometimes I've had conversations with journalists that I've never had with anybody else.

— Tori Amos

The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our…

— Jill Abramson

For much of my life as a journalist, I've viewed myself as being embedded with civilians and with those people who live…

— Jeremy Scahill

At an Antifa event meant to resist 'fascist violence,' I - a gay journalist of color - was beaten so badly that…

— Andy Ngo

I have been a journalist, off and on, since I was 17. I was a copy boy for the 'New York Times,'…

— Michael Ignatieff

They [candidates] say, "I don't want to say anything controversial." And so nobody covers them. Then they blame the journalists, saying "Why…

— Roger Ailes

When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were…

— Lawrence Wright

It's a lot of accumulated joy and tension and all kinds of emotions just pouring out of all us. We've all been…

— Jennifer Aniston

“No one has a monopoly on the truth, but the whole premise of our democracy is that truth and justice must win…

— Dan Rather

I don't go into any album with a concept or a deliberate direction. It's more letting the best music that really appeals…

— Bonnie Raitt

I was charging forward too hard, into too many war zones, working too long, drinking too heavily, pushing forward, pushing forward. And…

— Brad Willis

Jason Rezaian is coming home. A courageous journalist for The Washington Post who wrote about the daily lives and hopes of the…

— Barack Obama

I mean, Britain is a country of successful Muslim businesspeople, teachers and educators, journalists. So, we have to say very strongly that…

— David Miliband

I wanted to be a journalist for a long time.

— Jamie Bell

I have a great spouse, Andrew Cockburn, who's also a journalist.

— Leslie Cockburn

Every poll shows that most journalists are Democrats.

— Sally Quinn

“Und deswegen bin ich jetzt Journalist... So 'ne Scheiße!”

— Albrecht Behmel

Only two journalists followed the team around.

— Just Fontaine

My training was in theater, and I was asked to be a journalist.

— Mariette Hartley

The duty of a journalist is the duty of a watchman.

— William Thomas Stead

Any journalist worth his or her salt wouldn't trust me.

— Joey Skaggs