Quotes About Journalist

Your problem," he once announced to a Pakistani journalist with whom he had become annoyed, "is that you're an elitist, whereas I began my life as a son of a schoolteacher. I sat on a mat on the floor and learned to read and write. . . . We are homespun. We are nationalists. We are not like your Sandhurst friends. Not like Musharraf.

I had a journalist slap me, and it wasn't anyone that I had ever met before. I was at the airport.

I grew up in the Middle East where my mother, who also worked as a journalist, had to wear long dresses with long sleeves every time she left the house.

The whole process of telling my story to my ghostwriter was so intense, after all, because he would ask me questions that no journalist would ask me. Things like, 'How did it smell at your grandmother's house?'

It's just the nature of things. Every lawyer starts out seeking justice and winds up seeking victories. Every doctor want to save his patients and ends up wanting to save his investments. And every journalist starts out caring about the truth and ends up caring about circulation.

people do need some commandment to rule over them in our century, when god's ten have been virtually forgotten! the whole moral structure of our time rests on the eleventh commandment; and the journalist came to realize that thanks to a mysterious provision of history he is to become its administrator, gaining a power undreamed of by a hemingway or an orwell.

So tel me, Mr. Science Journalist, do you still doubt the existence of miracles?""I just told you. You're my miracle.

Wiley wrote a daily column for the Sun and probably was the best-known journalist in Miami.

It's difficult for me, to look into eyes of a journalist and trust him to present it as you say.

I've been a journalist for too long to stop calling myself a journalist, and also when I'm doing 'Fake or Fortune?' I'm going through a rigorous investigation.

Assange is not a 'journalist' any more than the 'editor' of al-Qaeda's new English-language magazine 'Inspire' is a 'journalist.' He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands.

I'm not an advocacy journalist - that's not what I do. My role in journalism is to be able to engage the most interesting people with the best ideas.

I am not supposed to reveal much about my role in 'Thiruppangal.' But I can say that I am playing a journalist. It is a beautiful story, and I have got a meaty role to play. Sharadha Narayanan is shaping up the movie in an interesting manner.

My father was a journalist.

I always wanted to be part of the media. I knew I wanted to work as a journalist.

I think of myself as a journalist first and foremost.

I'm Harvard-educated; I'm an economist by training. I'm an author, a journalist, as well as being active in community development.

I'm trying to grow more as a journalist and understand the story I'm photographing in order to communicate it in a better way.

I am a hard-news journalist. That is what I do.

I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.

I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joyfully consuming one.

I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.

I am a journalist.

The fact that I have always been deeply invested in politics, and African politics in particular, inevitably played a role in my first novel and, of course, in my decision to write about a handful of particular conflicts in Africa as a journalist.