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I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians. Owen Arthur | top
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The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment. Daniel Bell | top
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Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true. Arnold Bennett | top
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I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems. Ben Bradlee | top
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Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats. Linda Chavez | top
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Many journalists seem to believe that we have become little different from our enemies. Linda Chavez | top
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Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist. Cameron Crowe | top
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There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming. Ralph Fiennes | top
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I went on a long trip through South America with Prince Charles where I was the only journalist there - a couple of photographers but no other writers. Anthony Holden | top
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Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides. Gwen Ifill | top
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Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes. Karl Kraus | top
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Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough "facts" and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth. Melvin Maddocks | top
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Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation. Janet Malcolm | top
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There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought. Bill Moyers | top
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Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of. Roger Mudd | top
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Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers. Camille Paglia | top
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The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it. John Pomfret | top
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Every poll shows that most journalists are Democrats. Sally Quinn | top
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If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously. Harry Reasoner | top
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Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil. Leigh Steinberg | top
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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding. Kenneth Tynan | top
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General Sherman looked upon journalists as a nuisance and a danger at headquarters and in the field, and acted toward them accordingly, then as throughout his great war career. Henry Villard | top
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Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won't matter. George Will | top
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If you do a story about a British journalist rescuing a child from Sarajevo, then Sarajevo just becomes an exotic location, and the story's about this British journalist. Michael Winterbottom | top
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A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write. Todor Zhivkov | top
