Journalism Quote by Leslie Cockburn Download Open image ““Why did you become a journalist?” “Better than working for a living.”” — Leslie Cockburn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Journalism Life
I loved journalism until the day my journalism teacher, a man I revered, came by my desk and said, 'Are you planning on going… — Ed Asner Copy Share Image
“I want to be a journalist again. I want to make a difference in the world.” — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“To be successful as a journalist, you must be curious and have a yearning for learning facts.” — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
“I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“A journalist's work depends on a willingness to ask questions of people who are better informed and more powerful than you.” — Elizabeth Pisani Copy Share Image
“At the back of my mind I wanted to be a journalist when I grew up since I didn’t seem to be getting any… — Ian Colquhoun Copy Share Image
The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid… — John Pomfret Copy Share Image
My life isn't much different than when I worked full time as a journalist. — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
“Everyone goes into journalism for different reasons—and they’re often idealistic ones.” — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
“The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.” — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
“Everybody should work at a small newspaper. The amount of life you take in is staggering.” — Jeffrey Gettleman Copy Share Image
“Are you a journalist?” “I’m a doctor.” “Good. We need doctors, Wallahi .” Sadoon scowled. “Journalists only tell lies and smuggle carpets.” — Leslie Cockburn Copy Share Image
“But there are times, I would argue, when fiction delivers the greater truth.” — Leslie Cockburn Copy Share Image
When you do a piece of journalism, you may have to cut away 95 percent of what you are experiencing. — Leslie Cockburn Copy Share Image
When I was in London at NBC, I was the lowest man on the totem pole. I would go to diplomatic receptions to meet… — Leslie Cockburn Copy Share Image
After reading Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad when I was a student at Yale, I wanted to live in the world they captured in… — Leslie Cockburn Copy Share Image
When I was at graduate school in London, I began working at NBC News, which had a thriving documentary unit. — Leslie Cockburn Copy Share Image
When you have a situation that's destructive, when there's tremendous inhumanity everywhere, you see how humanity survives in all of its different permutations. — Leslie Cockburn Copy Share Image
“There are a lot of people missing in Iraq. Just the other day I heard of somebody asking $250,000 ransom for an Egyptian. Can… — Leslie Cockburn Copy Share Image
“Death was sweetened for the martyrs by the promise of 72 virgins waiting in paradise. She had researched the 72 virgins. The number wasn’t… — Leslie Cockburn Copy Share Image
I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject. — Leslie Cockburn Copy Share Image
In documentary films, the most difficult thing to achieve is to make something complex appear simple. — Leslie Cockburn Copy Share Image
“You can take me to Petra, and sing for me in the ruins.” “Insha’Allah.” — Leslie Cockburn Copy Share Image
I have always been a big meta guy because I think the way journalism is practiced in Washington, and the way everyone sort of… — Mark Leibovich Copy Share Image
If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
In essence, I see the value of journalism as resting in a twofold mission: informing the public of accurate and vital information, and its… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements. — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
“He cannot deny a certain relief in being able to sift through academic tomes, fulfilling his journalistic duty without having to barge past security… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
This ball was so crowded that it took me - a trained professional journalist with vast experience in this area - forty five minutes… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
We didn't see what happen when Marines fired M-16s... We didn't see what happened after mortars landed, only the puff of smoke. There were… — Ashleigh Banfield Copy Share Image
The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however,… — William Jackson Copy Share Image
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
