Cnn Quotes - Page 3

• I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.

  Ted Turner

  Mean, Cartoon, Cartoon Network

  "Ted's tears". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2002.

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• CNN is pretty consistently on the left, if you look at their choice of stories, what they play up. It's not what they say. It's what they highlight.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Play, Choices, Looks

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• We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Past, Numbers, Worry

  "The Future of the World" by Bjorn Lomborg, www.esquire.com. April 21, 2009.

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• I can watch CNN on television or the Internet to find out what happened in Hong Kong ten minutes ago. After all, it doesn't matter where something is made, we're all part of the same big family now.

  Jet Li

  Big Families, Watches, Television

  "'The World Is My Oyster'". Interview with Stephen Short, www.cnn.com. Apr 12, 2000.

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• I'm not searching for hard news; I'm not a journalist, but I'm interested in pushing to boundaries of where we can do the kind of stories that we want to do. I mean, it's a big world and CNN has made it a lot bigger and they haven't flinched.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Mean, Pushing, News

  "An Interview With Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert". Interview with Jamie Soja, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2013.

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• I'm not besotted with the notion of being on CNN to the point that I'm going to suddenly morph into Anderson Cooper or Christiane Amanpour. I'm not a foreign correspondent.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Notion

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• I'm a singer, not a politician, and I think you don't want the two to get confused. It's not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.

  Bono

  Confused, Thinking, Talking

  "Relief Pitcher". Interview with Susan Dominus, archive.nytimes.com.

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• Once he entered my life, I promptly forgot all my years of putting on a brave face while browsing at bookstores until closing time, and of having one, two, three beers while watching crime shows and CNN. I completely forgot the hateful sensation of loneliness, like thirst and hunger together pressing on my stomach.

  Douglas Coupland

  Loneliness, Beer, Brave Face

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• It makes you very cool," he said, taking big, jumping steps to get in front of me. "CNN would interview you, for sure. Daughter of Flobie! But don't worry. I'll keep them back!

  Maureen Johnson

  Daughter, Jumping, Worry

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.33, Penguin

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• The things that scare me are real life situations. Real life is much more scary than anything you can put on the movie screen. Which is why I get very upset when people try to blame the movies for the violence in this world. I'm like 'Are you kidding me?'. There is more violence in a four hour period on CNN than any movie I have in my massive collection.

  Corey Taylor

  Real, People, Scary

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• I mean, I could go ahead and cut my head off in the guillotine, and it looks great, ... Well, now you turn on CNN and guys are really getting their heads cut off. ... As insane as our fantasy world gets, it's nowhere near as scary as reality.

  Alice Cooper

  Mean, Cutting, Reality

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• You can replace houses. You can't replace people. I mean, it's left me speechless. I was talking to P.J. (Brown) about it. When the storm hit, I just kept it on CNN and watched the whole thing. Just seeing Canal Street, knowing I was there just a few days before storm and seeing all those stores I went in being under water. Unbelievable.

  Chris Paul

  Mean, Talking, Knowing

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• Well, it came from the White House, it came from people around the White House. It came from all over. I got a call on 9/11. I was on CNN, and I got a call at my home saying, 'You got to say this is connected. This is state-sponsored terrorism. This has to be connected to Saddam Hussein.

  Wesley Clark

  Home, White, People

  "Daily MoJo", www.motherjones.com. July 18, 2003.

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• The week before the (US Open) I gave a few interviews for CNN, USA Network, New York Times, USA Today and Sports Illustrated which had been arranged beforehand. The reason for giving these interviews is not only because working with the media is just part of the job, it is much more my desire to contribute to the promotion of tennis in the U.S.

  Roger Federer

  Sports, Jobs, New York

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• We're going to develop - what we want to do is to provide the viewers with what they want from CNN and that is the news. So when people tune in, they'll get the latest news, but they'll also get the biggest story of the day in depth, as CNN does so well

  Connie Chung

  People, Depth, Tunes

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• Today, especially, when there are so many stations for viewers to choose from, if they want news, they always come to CNN and that's where I wanted to be

  Connie Chung

  News, Want, Today

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• But, you know, sometimes - many - they all understand. That's the nice thing. They were all very happy for me and they understand why I decided to come to CNN. So in that respect, I know that they think it's the best thing for me to do

  Connie Chung

  Nice, Thinking, Literature

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• Everybody who runs CNN is a lot like Jon Stewart, and a lot of people who run all the other networks are a lot like Stewart, and to imply that somehow they, the people in this country who are Jewish, are an oppressed minority? Yeah.

  Rick Sanchez

  Running, Country, Mean

  "Rick Sanchez fired by CNN after comments about Jews and Jon Stewart" by Richard Adams, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2010.

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• Have you seen U2's live show? It's boring as hell. It's like watching CNN.

  Sharon Osbourne

  Hell, Boring, Shows

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• I think there is a mainstream media. CNN is mainstream media, and the main, ABC, CBS, NBC are mainstream media. And I think it's just essentially to make the point that we are largely in the center without particular axes to grind, without ideologies which are represented in our daily coverage, at least certainly not on purpose.

  Peter Jennings

  Thinking, Nbc, Axes

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• It's time for me to give out an award to newly elected Majority Leader John Boehner. Mr. Boehner was elected just a few days ago to reform House Republicans, who are feeling the heat from lobbyist scandals. Well, CNN found out that he rents his two-bedroom apartment from a lobbyist who had clients who had interests in legislation that Boehner sponsored. And for that, Mr. Boehner, you've just won a pair of Stephen Colbert's big brass balls.

  Stephen Colbert

  Two, Awards, Majority Leader

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• I've been playing the CNN Drinking Game, have you ever played that? Where you do a shot every time George Bush says the word "evil"? Oh, I'm a wreck! You gotta do a double shot every time he says "evildoers". Chug the bottle for "axis of evil". Are you a president or an exorcist?!

  Doug Stanhope

  Funny, Drinking, Humor

  "Doug Stanhope: Word of Mouth". Comedy, November 2002.

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• I was first to break the news about the death of Lady Diana. The CNN team couldn't get into makeup fast enough.

  Matt Drudge

  Team, Makeup, News

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• It's as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you're living in some kind of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart.

  Alain de Botton

  God, Spiritual, Religious

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• I watch some CNN and a lot of Fox, because it helps me get irritated.

  Lewis Black

  Watches, Foxes, Helping

  "Lewis Black finds no shortage of stupidity". Interview with Steven Winn, www.sfgate.com. June 24, 2009.

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