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• 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

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

  Phil Donahue

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• 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

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• 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

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

  Peter Jennings

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

  Peter Brimelow

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

  Freeman Dyson

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

  Frederick Wiseman

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• 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

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

  Ben Hecht

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• 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

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• I would never let myself knock out a journalist.

  Gerard Depardieu

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• 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

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• 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

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

  George Herman

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• Nothing is better for a young journalist than to go and write about something that other people don’t know about. If you can afford to send yourself to some foreign part, I still think that’s by far the best way to break in.

  Tina Brown

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• I think for a young journalist, it’s better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print.

  Tina Brown

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• Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.

  Clive Owen

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• I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder.

  Cicely Tyson

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  Tags in Women, Relationship, Journalist

• I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.

  Isabel Allende

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