Mugridge Journalist Quotes

The fact is, most journalists I know are not particularly political. They move around a lot. ~ Ron Suskind

I begin with the basic conviction that Jews and Arabs can live together. I have repeated that at every opportunity, not for journalists and not for popular consumption, but because I have never believed differently or thought differently, from my childhood on ... I know that we are both inhabitants of the land, and although the state is Jewish, that does not mean that Arabs should not be full citizens in every sense of the word. ~ Ariel Sharon

Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't. ~ Jonathan Raban

Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Science discovered long ago that carbon is a source of life. The ashes of my faith have prepared the ground for the planting of seeds that have produced new forms of truth, morality and meaning on my own terms, not according to the dogma laid down by religious ruffians or a vengeful God. If, as believers claim, the word "gospel" means good news, then the good news for me is that there is no gospel, other than what I can define for myself, by observation and conscience. As a journalist and free-thinking human being, I have come not to favor and fear religion, but to face and fight it as an impediment to civilized advancement. ~ Steve Benson

I like roundtables because you can talk more directly to people. And you also can get kind of a vibe on what a journalist's take is on something, and have a conversation with them more. ~ Ben Affleck

Everybody I knew, practically, was a journalist when I was a kid - my father, all of his friends. I never wanted to be like those people. ~ Matt Taibbi

As long as a journalist shows fairness and honesty in his or her work, their private life shouldn't matter. ~ Anderson Cooper

After visiting the Krupp factories, the Turkish party spent ten days in Berlin, where Vahdettin told a German journalist that women had begun to work in public in Turkey, and that although progress was slow, 'we are making the effort to give equal rights to our women'.88 Mustafa Kemal was not alone in favouring women's emancipation in the Ottoman state. ~ Andrew Mango

(aspiring journalist to Carl Kolchak)
'Andy knows I want to be a reporter. Like you'
This took me by surprise. 'Sallie, my dear, nobody wants to be a reporter like me. ~ Elizabeth Massie

You think I'm finished, so you're leaving me to be crucified by every piece of shit journalist in the fucking country. ~ Clive Barker

Terry Jackson, who is the Miami Herald's automotive writer and TV critic. That's correct: This man gets paid to drive new cars AND watch television. If he ever dies and goes to heaven, it's going to be a big let down. ~ Dave Barry

David Carr was one of the most gifted journalists who has ever worked at The New York Times, ~ Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

I wasn't imposing my presence on anyone, which is very important for a would- be journalist. I stayed back. Always let people be themselves. ~ Elliott Erwitt

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

<> I don't care if they are reading our mail. Bring it on, Tron! I dare you. Try to take away my freedom of expression. I'm a journalist. A free-speech warrior. I serve in the Army of the First Amendment. I didn't take this job for the bad money, and the regressive health care coverage. I'm here for the truth, the sunshine, the casting open of closed doors! ~ Rainbow Rowell

When I went in, my editor said, 'I hope you don't think you're a writer.' And I said, 'I hope you don't think I'm a journalist.' And, uh, turned out we were both right. ~ Julia Cameron

How do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists, then believe what they read. ~ Karl Kraus

And as a result, I guess I'm just kind of a rubberneck. I'm kind of a - someone who likes to see things and likes to see these events and talk to the people who make them happen. But I don't think journalists are as important as the people they cover. ~ Bob Schieffer

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. ~ W. H. Auden

Every journalist who is not too stupid or full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse. ~ Janet Malcolm

If you're crazy enough to put your hat into the ring of speculation and punditry, you're going to get some turbulence. But if it's coming from some journalist with a comfortable degree of body fat, I'm not losing any sleep over it. ~ Henry Rollins

Never Trust...
Never trust
a skinny cook,
a kid in a hoodie,
a hooker who says she loves you,
a wife secretly planning to divorce you,
a policemen who didn't read you your rights,
a journalist who says agrees what you say is 'off the record',
a man who says, 'We don't need no contract, my word's my bond'.

Place your trust in God and in God alone ~
all others pay cash.

Trust Me ~ Beryl Dov

But it's more an up-versus-down issue because the research has shown that opinion leaders, whether they're elected officials, journalists, business leaders - it's academics, religious leaders - they have dramatically different views on immigration. A ~ Mark Krikorian

I ask the Philippines Government to put an end to journalists' killings by giving journalists' safety the priority it deserves. ~ Warren Christopher

I thought I'd be a journalist, and only pursued acting intermittently while studying. My very first interview as a journalist was with David Usher of Moist, and he called the magazine the next day to say it was the best interview he'd done for his solo album. I felt like a million euros. ~ Liane Balaban

Mother Teresa was once asked by a journalist why she does what she does, that is, how she is able to take the dying poor from the streets of Calcutta, nurse and love them. Her response reflected her deep self-knowledge: "I realized a long time ago that I had a Hitler within me."2 This realization became the basis of her self-transcendence and of her unique holiness. ~ Wayne Teasdale

In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a serial kisser refuses to leave me. ~ Emraan Hashmi

I majored in journalism at Arizona State University, where I began writing the columns I write now, but I cannot, in good conscience, refer to myself as a writer. I'm a columnist, maybe a journalist, I guess I'm an author, but writer ... no. That's not up to me to call myself, that's rather lofty. It's for the reader to decide. ~ Laurie Notaro

I'm in politics to change things - if possible, for the better. I was a journalist for a long time, but I had a kind of midlife crisis, and I decided I needed to do something to get on the pitch and stop endlessly kicking over other peoples' sandcastles. ~ Boris Johnson