Accounts Quote by David Simon Download Open image “A TV show can't hold people and institutions to account like good journalism can.” — David Simon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Accounts Good journalism Institutions Journalism Old people People Shows Tv shows Tvs
There's so much information and journalism on television. We have too much to absorb. — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment. — Kurt Loder Copy Share Image
The industry is such - there is no guarantee that a show would work only because it is airing. — Nikita Dutta Copy Share Image
Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it. — Jack Germond Copy Share Image
I think television keeps on being a place where writers can go, and if they're successful, they can have their way, and they can… — James L. Brooks Copy Share Image
You have to be careful not to go overboard. How do you balance what is clearly great television with good journalism? — Chris Hansen Copy Share Image
I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because… — Dick Wolf Copy Share Image
Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you… — Roone Arledge Copy Share Image
The one good thing about television is the money; you can make a lot more money than in newspapers. — Will McDonough Copy Share Image
The problem with reality TV is that creative writers are not involved; TV folks are, and some journalists who will only mine the surface… — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a… — David Simon Copy Share Image
It is your birthright to live a life abundant in love. Make the commitment today to open your heart and let your love flow. — David Simon Copy Share Image
“If the case isn't plea bargained, dismissed or placed on the inactive docket for an indefinite period of time, if by some perverse twist… — David Simon Copy Share Image
When we spend time in silence, we can hear the voice of our soul whispering its sacred message and encouraging us to make choices… — David Simon Copy Share Image
You have the capacity to change the plot line of your life, even if you've been acting from the same script since before you… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Healing is the process of reestablishing the integration between body, mind, and spirit, creating opportunities for the return of the memory of wholeness. — David Simon Copy Share Image
Authenticity is an alignment between your beliefs, your desires and your choices in the world. Desires change throughout the course of a life, but… — David Simon Copy Share Image
One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power… — David Simon Copy Share Image
“Everyone lies. Murderers lie because they have to; witnesses and other participants lie because they think they have to; everyone else lies for the… — David Simon Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
I had a very blessed journey with the upbringing I had. When you're working on sets as a stuntman, you have a firsthand account… — Ric Roman Waugh Copy Share Image
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
You've got to exercise. Your health account, your bank account, they're the same thing. The more you put in, the more you can take… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
God puts you where God needs you. You are where you are supposed to be. The job you are doing may not be any… — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share Image
