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People say to me that I'm a role model in technology, but it makes me laugh, because I'm not a technologist, I'm a journalist - that's my background. — Sue Gardner

Since I make my living as a literary journalist, not a book scout, I spend inordinate amounts of time either reading or writing. — Michael Dirda

He was a lawyer and he knew that it would be best to trust his journalist friend, but not to tell his own lawyer — Haidji

You have to go where the story is to report on it. As a journalist, you're essentially running to things that other people are running away from. — Lester Holt

As a journalist, the details always tell the story. — James McBride

I have tried to remain a working, cutting-edge journalist and I don't do it the way everybody else does it. And I think that's the difference. — Dan Rather

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. — Marguerite Duras

I'd probably still be a financial journalist now if it weren't for writing novels. Mmm. Fun! I'm much happier writing novels! — Sophie Kinsella

intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face, and — George Orwell

I am not a journalist. I'm just a guy who cares. I'm sorry. I'm just a guy who cares an awful lot about my country. — Glenn Beck

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

As a journalist, your job is to bear witness. — Anthony Shadid

You are not just a funny person or just a journalist. Most people are hybrids of having a smart opinion and a great sense of humor. — Katie Nolan

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes. — George Bernard Shaw

A Pulitzer Prize is awaiting the journalist who can find an American who dies of hunger, and probably the Nobel Prize for literature as well. — Tom Bethell

The duty of a journalist is the duty of a watchman. — William Thomas Stead

I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks. — Janet Flanner

Since I'm not a journalist, I talk about issues that encourage an interchange of ideas through conversation while also being entertaining. — Thalia

I always wanted to be a serious journalist. — Jeannette Walls

Be a journalist. I can't get away from you guys, then I just mingle with you guys. — Yao Ming

I never intended to make a living from music. That's the funny thing. I wanted to be a journalist. — Pete Seeger

I'm not strong-willed enough or unkind enough ... or maybe simply not wise enough to tell a journalist that a subject is out of bounds. — James Nesbitt

I want you to understand clearly, I am not a journalist - be very clear on that. I am an opinion maker. — Glenn Beck

Lincoln was less well-read than many a professor or journalist, but what he read, he read deeply. — Richard Brookhiser

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained. — Aminatta Forna

As a youngster, I think I said I wanted to be a journalist, but that's a disguise for being a writer. — Romesh Gunesekera

I wanted to be a fashion journalist and went to the London College of Fashion to do a journalism and promotion course. — Kirsty Gallacher

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

I'm a journalist, so my friends are journalists: magazines, newspapers, even public radio. Nobody had their kids in public school. — Sandra Tsing Loh

Why did you become a journalist?"
"Better than working for a living. — Leslie Cockburn

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling. — Otto Von Bismarck

Although we were never pals and occasionally butted heads, my relationship with Clinton and his wife, Hillary, made me a better journalist. — Ron Fournier

I've always thought that travelling every day as a journalist on the Tour's got to be harder than actually racing. — Greg LeMond

I like my job and I want to do well at it but I think there's much more integrity to being a journalist maybe than being an actor. — Jessica Lucas

My life isn't much different than when I worked full time as a journalist. — Linwood Barclay

The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style — Stella Gibbons

A journalist who doesn't know how to find a phone number no matter how secret it is should change his profession. — Henning Mankell

I'm a terrible interviewer. I'm not a journalist - although I have a Peabody Award - and I'm not really a late-night host. What I am is honest. — Craig Ferguson

To a journalist, good news is often not news at all. — Phil Donahue

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. — Harry Reasoner

Never trust a journalist unless she's your mother. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I'd never compromise my position as a journalist by having a friendly relationship with a politician. — Rebekah Brooks

Every time I talk to a fancy journalist and they ask what I do in my free time my scumbag brain goes 'say masturbate, it'll be hilarious'. — Anna Kendrick

As a professional journalist, I have always been fascinated by people who appear to have even more spare time than I do. — Dave Barry

A journalist who doesn't bring a camera is like a warrior who doesn't carry a sword. — Lucio Tan

No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist. — Karl Kraus

My father was a journalist. — Daniel Snyder

I'm an artist and a journalist. I travel around the world very often for 'Vice Magazine,' and I draw and I write about prisons, about conflict zones. — Molly Crabapple

Personally, as a print journalist, I always found the most interesting stories to be the ones hacks talked about in the bar after work. — Nick Denton

I think that Twitter and YT and blogs are keeping media more honest. Everyone can be a journalist now. Everyone is a fact checker. — Shane Smith

The right book at the right time, may mean more in a persone's life than anything else — Lee Shippey

You have to draw lines between being a journalist and an activist. — Michael Pollan

I never intended to be a journalist. Frankly, I don't think I ever was a journalist. I backed into it. — Laurence Shames

In God we trust," he brusquely told a journalist. "All others [must] have data. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Remember, folks, I am a comedian, not a journalist. — Kathy Griffin

"Not sure," he retorted; "you call yourself a journalist, and admit there is a subject under Heaven of which you are not sure!" — Jerome K. Jerome

My dad's a journalist, and he travelled a lot when I was young. There is no way my mother could have done that. — Raquel Cassidy

I realise that, strutting around in power corridors for political coverage, a journalist becomes half a politician. — Rajeev Shukla

Hi," (cough), "my name is Jasmin Field. I'm a journalist. So don't piss me off. Ha ha. And um - well, I can't really act. Ha ha." No one laughed. — Melissa Nathan

Every journalist has a novel inside him, which is an excellent place for it. — Russell Lynes

If you want romance, fuck a journalist. — W. H. Auden

Being skeptical is a good thing for a journalist, because it means you don't completely trust anyone. — Lemony Snicket

I come to the table from a conservative or libertarian point of view, and I admit that. I'm a commentator. I'm not a journalist or anything else. — Glenn Beck

The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it. — John Pomfret

Every journalist loves a peaceful protest -whether it makes news, shakes up a political season, or holds out the possibility of altering history. — Nina Easton

As a journalist for 35 years, and now author for 20, I've learned that there's always more. — David Maraniss

If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats. — Diane Sawyer

And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse. — May Sinclair

One journalist complemented another that his article on a dispute, had made both sides see themselves as they are. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

People do not realize that the media is paid to get your attention. For a journalist, silence rarely surpasses any word. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If a journalist calls you a racist, chances are, all other journalists will call you a racist. — Greg Gutfeld

Having been a journalist for thirty-nine years, I've developed a pretty thick skin. — Pete Earley

The press pass and the a title of "journalist" had been replaced by a smart phone and a Twitter account. — Nick Bilton

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state. — Walter Lippmann

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not. — Nicolas Berggruen

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

My mother was a journalist, so writing is not unnatural to me. — Ginger Rogers

I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information. — Christopher Hitchens

I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world. — Henry R. Luce

When a state is afraid of the journalists, it means that that state is definitely doing some secret devilish things! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I wanted to be a journalist for a long time. — Jamie Bell

I've been a financial journalist for 30 years. — Peter Brimelow

Being a famous print journalist is like being the best-dressed woman on radio. — Robin Williams

As a journalist, I'm not supposed to be the subject, but as an author, I'm fair game - another ingredient in the media soup. — Michael Azerrad

You know, honestly - look, I'm not a journalist. This is the first, you know, tragedy that I have covered on the air. — Glenn Beck

For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes. — Patricia Marx

I've been meaning to write about the Rolling Stones, but I am the furthest thing from a hipster rock journalist. — Diablo Cody

I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet. — Werner Herzog

Being a journalist, Hacker had no particular talent for reporting facts. — Jonathan Lynn

I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print. — Tina Brown

And I think: I could do this. Fuck writing a book about a fat girl and a dragon. I could be a music journalist, instead. — Caitlin Moran

What's the easiest fucking thing to take?" I asked him. "Journalism. Those journalism majors don't do anything." "O.K., I'll be a journalist. — Charles Bukowski

A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind. — Mahatma Gandhi

I'm here as a radio journalist but am not even sure which part of a tape recorder takes the pictures. — P. J. O'Rourke

I'm not a journalist. I'm a pundit. I'm a commentator, I'm somebody with an opinion. — Karl Rove

As a journalist I'm asked whether I make things up. As a novelist I'm accused of telling the truth. — Lennox Morrison

A writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist) — Gore Vidal

A lot of journalists give me a hard time about how I look, but I've never met a journalist I'd rather look like. — Robert Smith

I don't think I ever wanted to be a journalist - I was more interested in what comes from being a journalist. — Benjamin Booker

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