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I have to remind my dad, 'Journalists - no matter how many cigars they smoke with you - are not your friends, so don't talk to them.' -- Cameron Diaz
Journalists should be watchdogs, not lapdogs. -- Newton Lee
Journalists prize independence - not teamwork. -- Ken Auletta
Journalists aren't supposed to be cheerleaders. -- Eric Schlosser
Journalists love to show their compassion. -- Bernard Goldberg
Journalists often put things into either-or scenarios. -- Rusty Schweickart
Journalists are bigger terrorists than terrorists themselves. -- Asif Ali Zardari
Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls. -- Dan Rather
Heres the problem: Journalists just dont understand their business. -- Randall Rothenberg
Journalists never make it clear when you are joking. -- David Bailey
Journalists are getting big stories wrong, over and over again. -- Scott Pelley
Journalists seem mostly interested in what brand of shoes I wear. -- Rem Koolhaas
Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism. -- Hedrick Smith
Journalists are interesting. They just aren't as interesting as the things they cover. -- Nora Ephron
Journalists are simply leftists disguised as reporters. They're political activists disguised as reporters. -- Rush Limbaugh
Journalists should be people in whom there is at least a flicker of hope. -- Paul Simon
Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
Journalists don't need a get-out-of-jail-free card, ... Instead we should be given more access to information. -- Chris Powell
Journalists must not be made accomplices by the secret service to solve its own problems. -- Hubert Burda
Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication. -- George Bernard Shaw
Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write. -- Karl Kraus
Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets. -- Gerald Priestland
Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous. -- Melvin Maddocks
Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion. -- Vivienne Westwood
Journalists have no choice but to fight back because if they don't, they will become irrelevant, -- James Risen
I'd rather [the collection] have no title. Journalists like titles. That's why I give them to you. -- Rei Kawakubo
Twitter is not just for Journalists. You don't have to be a writer to Tweet.[Social Media] -- Germany Kent
Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition. -- Bill Moyers
Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality. -- Michael Arrington
Journalists, who are skeptical to begin with, simply do not like to be lied to or made fools of. -- Roger Mudd
Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five! -- Leonard Cohen
Journalists don't retire, writers don't retire. I'm still hoping for that other big story. There's always one just around the corner. -- Phillip Knightley
Journalists say my music is "blue wave," or "dreamy," or "jangly-slacker jewel," and none of it really makes sense to me. -- Mac DeMarco
Journalists were killed because they defended freedom. Policemen were killed because they were protecting you. Jews were killed because they were Jewish. -- Manuel Valls
Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it themselves. -- Honore de Balzac
Journalists should think of themselves as outside the Establishment, and owners can't be too worried about what they're told at their country clubs. -- Rupert Murdoch
Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn't work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season was up. -- Tyra Banks
Journalists were at the forefront. From the Civil War until the early 1900s, nothing was being done to solve the problems of the Industrial Age. -- Doris Kearns Goodwin
Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true. -- Arnold Bennett
Journalists have misquoted people for so long - and quoted them out of context that for many people like to have their words on record. -- Jason Calacanis
Journalists should have been the first to tell people what Obamacare would mean to them. They are now the last to figure all of this out. -- Rush Limbaugh
Journalists like to say I started off sweeping the pottery floors. But it was just a short-lived part time job doing that after I left school. -- John Caudwell
Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats. -- Linda Chavez
The new history is really ancient history newly discovered. Journalists are taking crash courses in the blood-drenched background of Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, North Ossetians, Armenians and Azerbaijanis. -- Henry Grunwald
You turn on the TV, and you see very bland interviews. Journalists in the United States are very cozy with power, very close to those in power. -- Jorge Ramos
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Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides. -- Gwen Ifill
Journalists are quite surprised outside their dinner parties when they hear where I live. 'Van Nuys? You still live there?' It is like saying you're from Alabama. -- Sandra Tsing Loh
Journalists have to do their job. And journalists have to resist emotionalism. You have to keep your cool and to continue to do your job until you're prevented. -- David Frum
Journalists immediately think of me as a resource for a quote or comment because they know that I will be available to offer fresh insight and meet their deadlines. -- Marc Benioff
The thing is with the media, I have a love-hate relationship with [it]. [Journalists] are only doing their jobs and you can't get your own way all the time. -- Michelle Mone
Journalists always like an excuse for why are they talking about something now when they didn't talk about something a week ago. They always like to say something is new. -- Julian Assange
I was originally going to train as a journalist, passing a series of exams that winnowed ten thousand applicants down to one hundred places on a National Union of Journalists course. -- Warren Ellis
Journalists become candidates for cardiac arrest when they see or hear an African American disagreeing with an African American. We would become inauthentic if we did not have disagreements with this president. -- John Conyers
Journalists were never intended to be the cheerleaders of a society, the conductors of applause, the sycophants. Tragically, that is their assigned role in authoritarian societies, but not here - not yet. -- Chet Huntley
Journalists don't have audiences - they have publics who can respond instantly and globally, positively or negatively, with a great deal more power than the traditional letters to the editor could wield. -- Howard Rheingold
This man (FreddieMercury) truly possessed the greatest voice in the history of rock. Journalists, culture experts and analysts have already made several hundred comments on this topic and nothing can be added here. -- Brian May
Journalists ask me, 'Why don't you ever talk about sex in your performances?' True, I don't talk about sex - not in my personal life and not in my professional life. This is modesty. -- Gad Elmaleh
Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and even mock the hypocrisy that reporters and editors must simply observe without comment. -- Tom Rachman
The military mind tends to be conservative, realistic and historical. The civilian mind tends to be liberal, idealistic and Utopian. Journalists, obviously, are civilians, and they tend to distrust, and to suspect, the military's motives. -- Mark Riebling
I'm really bad at describing my books. Journalists like to have things like "It's The Terminator Meets the Seven Dwarfs." And I can't do that with my books. If I could, I probably wouldn't write them. -- Charles de Lint
Journalists say that when a dog bites a man, that is not news, but when a man bites a dog, that is news ... Thanks to the mathematics of combinatorics, we will never run out of news. -- Steven Pinker
Journalists have always written that my mum said that I punched a hole through my cot when I was three years old. I don't remember doing that, and I think it was more that I was very energetic. -- Frank Bruno
Journalists dedicate their lives to covering war - they make many personal sacrifices, and it's not something that's gender-based. In a place like Libya where there's heavy fighting, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman. -- Lynsey Addario
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Journalists often ask me when I go to the field, 'What do you expect to find?' And my answer always is, 'The unexpected,' because we're just looking at the tip of the iceberg; we've just scratched the surface. -- Donald Johanson
Journalists often ask me: "Aren't you sorry that after all the work you've done, you're best known as Magneto and Gandalf?" But that's what I've always wanted - not to be known as myself. I want to draw attention to the characters. -- Ian Mckellen
See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers. -- John Thomas Sladek
See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers. -- John Thomas Sladek
Journalists have made celebrities into an industry. -- Stefanie Powers
We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing. -- Joe Klein
You know I take music seriously, right? So I expect journalists to take being a journalist seriously. -- Glenn Danzig
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. -- Henrik Ibsen
Journalists generally have no bias toward one cosmological theory or another, but many have a natural preference for excitement. -- Steven Weinberg
As journalists, we cannot swallow the official line without question. We should challenge almost everything that dictators, presidents and officials say. -- Jorge Ramos
How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print. -- Karl Kraus
If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so fed up with being asked all those stupid questions. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
Broadsheets can be scathing. But I have respect for broadsheet journalists because they haven't succumbed to degrading themselves, to writing pidgin English with all these terrible colloquialisms, the phrasing of which is just, like, embarrassing. -- Peaches Geldof
When I started my airline business, I didn't know everything, right? If I start up a newspaper tomorrow, I might get ripped off by journalists. You'd be naive to think you know everything from day one. -- Tony Fernandes
Not all journalists are really journalists. They ask such stupid questions sometimes, especially the newer ones, and because... these people can't tell if you're joking around, you just can't have any sense of humour; you really can't. -- Ray Liotta
The rumors of Frank Sinatra's violence and his ties to organized crime were such that journalists joked in print about me ending up in concrete boots and sleeping with the fishes if I proceeded to write his biography. -- Kitty Kelley
I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted. -- Naomi Wolf
Back in George W. Bush's second term, when diplomatic realism began to overtake foolish bellicosity, the president developed one of his patented nicknames for the two most powerful neoconservative journalists, William Kristol and Charles Krauthammer: he called them 'the Bomber Boys.' -- Joe Klein
In France, the image I had was of a shy girl - a poor lonely girl and not too good-looking. When I went to England, I had another image. I felt the journalists were much more interested in my looks than in my songs. -- Francoise Hardy
Journalists are in the same madly rocking boat as diplomats and statesmen. Like them, when the Cold War ended, they looked for a new world order and found a new world disorder. If making and conducting foreign policy in today's turbulent environment is difficult, so is practicing journalism. -- Henry Grunwald
As Americans, we rightfully place tremendous value on having a free and independent press. Our role as journalists is to give voice to the voiceless, and hold our leaders and institutions accountable. But the circle is only completed when that information is consumed by a free-thinking and engaged audience. -- Lester Holt
How is it that, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, there are still some who would deny the dangers of climate change? Not surprisingly, the loudest voices are not scientific, and it is remarkable how many economists, lawyers, journalists and politicians set themselves up as experts on the science. -- Nicholas Stern
I think that some of the greatest muckrakers and some of the greatest investigative journalists of all time had strong feelings about civil rights. There is a role for the journalist-advocate. And as long as you play your cards on the table, I think that's a role that we should allow. -- Pete Earley
Sometimes 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 Francis
The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game. -- Gary Ackerman
One possible future for WikiLeaks is to morph into a gigantic media intermediary - perhaps, even something of a clearing house for investigative reporting - where even low-level leaks would be matched with the appropriate journalists to pursue and report on them and, perhaps, even with appropriate NGOs to advocate on their causes. -- Evgeny Morozov
I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in any deep sense about morality, or with regard to what they value in life. I think this doubt about the application of science and reason to questions of value is really quite dangerous. -- Sam Harris
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Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities, embrace the meaning of what it is to be scientifically literate. They embrace the concept of an innovation culture. They vote in ways that promote it. They don't fight science and they don't fight technology. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
A lot of rappers say 'I'm talking about stuff that goes on, what I grew up in, that I know about.' And these journalists say, 'Yeah, but you're making 80 million dollars, that stuff's not about you.' Look how long he's been making 80 million. He grew up poor in an urban city and the things he's experienced and knows. -- Stuart Scott
Most journalists are broken down alcoholics. -- James Purdy
There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists. -- Robert Crumb
I don't trust lawyers and journalists. -- Lisa Ling
I wait for death and journalists. -- Jeanne Calment
ABC forbids political activity by journalists. -- Bill Dedman
My comments are reserved for reputable journalists. -- Ward Churchill
Only two journalists followed the team around. -- Just Fontaine
That's why we have journalists, for stats. -- Maria Sharapova
I amused myself playing with the journalists. -- Brigitte Boisselier
As journalists, we keep pushing and pushing. -- Mary Hart
I make friends faster and easier than journalists. -- Anthony Bourdain
Every poll shows that most journalists are Democrats. -- Sally Quinn
I don't believe in journalists having 'responsibility.' -- Seth Lipsky
I find myself believing everything that journalists tell me. -- Chris Lilley
Many journalists seem to desire 'liberation' from Christian roots. -- Marvin Olasky
I spend a lot of time talking to journalists. -- Ai Weiwei
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Breaking news is the most masturbating thing journalists do. -- Felix Salmon
If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists. -- Sydney Schanberg
I think independent filmmakers, documentary filmmakers - they are journalists. -- Robert Redford
No news is good news. No journalists is even better. -- Nicolas Bentley
The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. -- Warren Buffett
The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists. -- A. N. Wilson

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