You do get certain publications in the States where, if things don’t go according to plan, they flip the story and it becomes very negative.
DrakeWhen small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
Napoleon BonaparteI don’t think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It’s lonely out here.
Hunter S. ThompsonI’ve reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can’t do anything to change events anyway.
Anne FrankI became a journalist at 17. A few hours later, I saw my first dead body, which was somewhat… colourful. That’s when I learned you can go on throwing up after you run out of things to throw up.
Terry PratchettRap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.
Kurt CobainI have such respect for ‚Democracy Now!‘
Alice WalkerJournalism largely consists of saying ‚Lord Jones is Dead‘ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
Gilbert K. ChestertonTruthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.
Terry PratchettThe press is the enemy.
Richard M. NixonThe smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
Warren BuffettJournalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.
Terry PratchettThe difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Oscar WildeMediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people’s progress.
Jeff BezosI love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.
Angelina JolieI can’t think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there’s been a reaction, there’s been no journalism. It’s cause and effect.
Hunter S. ThompsonWell, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?
Dwight D. EisenhowerI’m not searching for hard news; I’m not a journalist, but I’m interested in pushing to boundaries of where we can do the kind of stories that we want to do. I mean, it’s a big world and CNN has made it a lot bigger and they haven’t flinched.
Anthony BourdainWatergate had become the center of the media’s universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it.
Richard M. NixonTwo kids in their dorm room can’t start anything important in space today. That’s why I want to take the assets I have from Amazon and translate that into the heavy-lifting infrastructure that will allow the next generation to have dynamic entrepreneurialism in space, to build that transportation network.
Jeff BezosJournalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.
Arthur SchopenhauerI don’t even know what the issues are. I haven’t paid attention to politics in a long time. It’s actually not something that I really even enjoy. It’s way off my radar.
Tom BradyI was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that’s it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called ‚The Truth‘.
Terry PratchettBy giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar WildeNewspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
Arthur SchopenhauerI can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don’t like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don’t like to be shaped by society.
Charles BukowskiWe may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.
Helen KellerWe are all the President’s men.
Henry KissingerFor me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn’t poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.
Alice WalkerIf I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
Hunter S. ThompsonWe must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
Pope FrancisJournalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIn order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.
Narendra ModiNothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
Blaise PascalScience may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.
Helen KellerAmerica makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.
E. E. CummingsIn 2013, the week before I dropped ‚Crenshaw,‘ ‚Complex‘ wrote an article that said that Nipsey Hussle is one of the top 25 underperforming artists. I was so offended that I responded with my own opinion about these journalists – their point of view is not validated in our culture.
Nipsey HussleA veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
George Bernard ShawBut with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!
Stephen CoveyI became a journalist partly so that I wouldn’t ever have to rely on the press for my information.
Christopher HitchensSure, women sportswriters look when they’re in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?
Bob UeckerIf people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
Thomas SowellPeople who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
Andrew CarnegieIs it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don’t know and I don’t care.
Jimmy BuffettFour hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
Napoleon BonaparteMediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
Benjamin DisraeliWhere the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
Thomas JeffersonI became a journalist because one didn’t have to specialise.
Christopher HitchensEarly in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
George OrwellI like policy. It’s why I decided to enter government. The other thing I like about government – you have good days, you have bad days, but you never have a boring day, and that’s important to me.
John KennedyMy government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.
Narendra ModiTo those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.
ConfuciusI’m not besotted with the notion of being on CNN to the point that I’m going to suddenly morph into Anderson Cooper or Christiane Amanpour. I’m not a foreign correspondent.
Anthony BourdainThe major networks, the cable networks, they’re being prosecutors. They’re judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c’mon, that’s ridiculous. But they’re doing it.
Ray BradburyYou will always have partial points of view, and you’ll always have the story behind the story that hasn’t come out yet. And any form of journalism you’re involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.
Margaret AtwoodSometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.
Pope FrancisThere should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate – not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.
Oscar WildeA free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
Albert CamusIn America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.
Oscar WildeWith the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.
Hunter S. Thompson