Otto von Bismarck
Statesman, Chancellor
"A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling."
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Journalist
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Larry King
Television Host
"The secret of success is an absolute ungovernable curiosity."
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Author, Statistician
"An erudite is someone who displays less than he knows; a journalist or consultant the opposite."
Freeman Dyson
Theoretical Physicist
"Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist."
Christopher Hitchens
Author, Critic, Journalist
"I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information."
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"I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise."
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"As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others."
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"Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write."
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"Bad manners make a journalist."
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"If you consider the great journalists in history, you don't see too many objective journalists on that list."
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"Since becoming a journalist, each time I engage with subjects I become more radicalized."
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"Only two journalists followed the team around."
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"The curse of a journalist is that he always has more questions than answers."
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"I'm afraid there's nothing we can do about the journalists; we can only hope that they will die off as the deerflies do towards the end of August."
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"I had rather be called a journalist than an artist."
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"Journalists should be watchdogs, not lapdogs."
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"a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)"
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"For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes."
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"I hate the celebrity architect thing. I just do my work. The press comes up with this stuff and it sticks. I hate the word starchitect. Stuff like that comes from mean-spirited, untalented journalists. It's demeaning."
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"Journalists should be people in whom there is at least a flicker of hope."
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"I make friends faster and easier than journalists."
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"My comments are reserved for reputable journalists."
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"The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is."
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"History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect."
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"I’m a journalist; I run to the fire, that’s what we do."
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