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• An egotist is a person of low taste – more interested in himself than in me.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Egotism, Journalist

• I get a fine warm feeling when I’m doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let’s face it, writing is hell.

  William Styron

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pain, Fine, Warm, Journalist, Writing

• If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.

  Russell Banks

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hanging, Journalist, Writing

• I’m a journalist – I’m not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one – a joyfully consuming one.

  David Remnick

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Journalist

• To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.

  Phil Donahue

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Journalist

• In February I secured permission to enter Osama bin Laden’s compound in the northern Pakistani city of Abbottabad, where he was killed and where he had lived for the last half-decade of his life; the first, and only, journalist to do so.

  Peter L. Bergen

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Journalist

• The image we have of bin Laden in his final years in Abbottabad is of an aging man with a graying beard watching old footage of himself just another suburban dad flipping though the channels with his remote.

  Peter L. Bergen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Image, Journalism, Journalist

• As a journalist, one tends to think there’s nothing off limits.

  Peter Jennings

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  Tags in Journalist

• I’ve been a financial journalist for 30 years.

  Peter Brimelow

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  Tags in Journalist

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

  Freeman Dyson

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  Tags in Important, Journalist, Good

• Whether you’re a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Journalist, Organize

• I’m a mother, I’m a journalist, I’m an American; I’m all of those things, and it really complicates your job when you have all these things come into play.

  Paula Ann Zahn

  Topics in Job, Mother

  Tags in Myself, Journalist

• My challenge was even greater as a journalist, because this was happening in my own backyard.

  Paula Ann Zahn

  Topics in Challenge, Life

  Tags in Journalist

• Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.

  Ben Hecht

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Journalist, Offer

• The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Journalist, Guarantee

• I would never let myself knock out a journalist.

  Gerard Depardieu

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  Tags in Myself, Journalist

• This is our mercury, our lunary, but whosoever thinks of any other water besides this, is ignorant and foolish, never attaining to the desired effects.

  George Ripley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Journalist

• Most centrist Democrats… try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy.

  Tom Hayden

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Distance, Journalist

• To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.

  George Herman

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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

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  Tags in People, Journalist