Journalist Quotes

Seriously. I'm not playing to prove anything to journalists. I'm playing for myself, for my fans,to make people happy.

Journalists have no choice but to fight back because if they don't, they will become irrelevant.

No journalist knows the ins and outs of the Allman Brothers Band better than Alan Paul.

I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.

Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth.

I don't believe any Western journalists, quite frankly. I believe they're liars until proven otherwise.

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

I see myself as a recovering journalist.

Journalist: 'Have you received any death threats?' Harry Redknapp: 'Only from the wife when I didn't do the washing up!'.

One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.

The journalists are so devoted to Obama. They are such sycophants that they're worried about access.

Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

Journalists are bigger terrorists than terrorists themselves.

The secret of success is an absolute ungovernable curiosity.

Journalists become candidates for cardiac arrest when they see or hear an African American disagreeing with an African American. We would become inauthentic if we did not have disagreements with this president.

I'd rather [the collection] have no title. Journalists like titles. That's why I give them to you.

We were there [ in the newsroom] through the elections [2008] so it was quite a frenzy going on. The other thing I learn is that journalists are very messy.

I don't pretend to be objective. There is no such thing as being an objective journalist.

No news is good news. No journalists is even better.

But unfortunately, I have to say, one out of every 100 interviews I do, I get a real journalist

This is the whole ball game, and this is what I really want to say. I'm proud that journalists are standing up, individually, speaking up in ways that we rarely see. They're not anti-Trump. They're pro-democracy.

I wait for death and journalists.

An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite.

I can't remember a single occasion when I have been kind to a journalist.

I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

Journalists have made celebrities into an industry.

Too few journalists become screenwriters. I say to all the would-be screenwriters: Become journalists. And I’ll say to working journalists: Do not stay journalists. Become screenwriters.

My belief is that "recluse" is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, "doesn't like to talk to reporters."

For some people it's real therapy to talk to journalists about their private lives and inner thoughts. But I would rather keep something to myself.

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.

Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.

Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn't work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season was up.

But the time has come for journalists to acknowledge that a zone of privacy does exist.

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

I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise.

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

Journalists were killed because they defended freedom. Policemen were killed because they were protecting you. Jews were killed because they were Jewish.

Never lose your sense of the superficial.

Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!

I wanted to be a journalist for a long time.

If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list.

There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.

I've been a financial journalist for 30 years.

Every music journalist I've ever met has been stunningly beautiful.

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.

To me, that's the foundational fact of my identity is that I'm a journalist and so it's hard to imagine putting anything else first.

The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.

As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.

Bad manners make a journalist.