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• Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.

  Frederick Douglass

  Freedom, Patriotic, People

  "Life and Times of Frederick Douglass". The Illustrated Edition,

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• In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Lying, Believe, Commitment

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• Documentaries are a form of journalism.

  Michael Moore

  Documentaries, Form

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• Yeah, I think of what I do as a work of journalism. It's more like the op-ed page, though. These are my opinions. My point of view. The opinions are mine and I let you make up your own mind.

  Michael Moore

  Thinking, Views, Mind

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• I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

  Dan Quayle

  Funny, Witty, Phoenix

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

  Dan Quayle

  Mother, Children, Politics

  «Being VP is just like being a lesser Kardashian» by Dean Obeidallah, www.cnn.com. August 3, 2012.

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• And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I didn't graduate with honors, but I did graduate on time and with some doing.

  Bob Schieffer

  Writing, Years, Two

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• I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.

  Bob Woodward

  Drama, Thinking, Quality

  "Frontline" Interview, www.pbs.org. July 29, 1996.

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• The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.

  Bob Woodward

  Media, Literature, Dilemma

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• Journalism is just a gun. It’s only got one bullet in it, but if you aim right, that’s all you need. Aim it right, and you can blow a kneecap off the world.

  Warren Ellis

  Blow, Gun, Bad Ass

  "Transmetropolitan. Back on the Street (issues #1–3)". Comic book by Warren Ellis,

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• Journalism is an act of faith in the future.

  Ann Curry

  "Ann graces cover of Ladies' Home Journal". www.today.com. August 4, 2011.

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• In journalism I can only tell what happened. In fiction, I can show it.

  David Frum

  Fiction, Shows, Happened

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• The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is criminal.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Criminals, Misuse, Estates

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa”

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• Newspapers should be read for the study of facts. They should not be allowed to kill the habit of independent thinking.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Independent, Thinking, Facts

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• In the East, as in the West, newspapers are fast becoming people's Bible, Koran, Zend-Avesta and Gita all rolled into one.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  People, East, Gita

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• Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Privilege, Freedom Of The Press

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.263, Rajpal & Sons

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• Newspapers have become more important to the average man than the scriptures.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Average, Important

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa”

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• It's good for a writer to come from journalism because it gives you the tools. A journalist knows that he or she can lose the reader in six lines, so try to keep the attention of the reader. Also, you learn to research, and to conduct an interview - to extract from the person whatever you need from that person.

  Isabel Allende

  Giving, Trying, Research

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Confronting the US made him [Hugo Chavez] a target for demonization. Partisan and/or lazy journalism exaggerated his faults, ignored his virtues, and downplayed the influence of strident and on occasion anti-democratic opponents. The flip side is his anti-imperialist posturing so dazzled his cheerleaders they overlooked his flaws, flaws which worsened over time, and they created their own caricature.

  Rory Carroll

  Lazy, Target, Opponents

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• In a sense, journalism can be both helpful and detrimental to a writer of fiction because the kind of writing you need to do as a journalist is so different. It has to be clear, unambiguous, concise, and as a writer often you are trying to do things that are more ambiguous. I find that writing fiction is often an antidote to reading and writing too much journalism.

  Aravind Adiga

  Reading, Writing, Trying

  "MoJo Interview: Aravind Adiga". Interview with Sonja Sharp, www.motherjones.com. June 19, 2009.

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• Many years ago I had two small children, and I wanted to be able to be home when they got home from school. And I didn't like the direction journalism was taking. I thought if I could write books, I could work at home and have the best of both worlds. I wrote my first mystery while still working full time, and it didn't sell, but the next one did sell, so I quit my job for the world of fiction. Scary, but I've never regretted it for a single day.

  Mary Kay Andrews

  Jobs, Children, Book

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• Every industry, there are rogues and bad actors. There could be rogues and bad actors in journalism. Rogues and bad actors in medicine. Rogues and bad actors in the legal community.

  Anthony Scaramucci

  Medicine, Community, Rogues

  ""Life Is Unfair": Talking Inequality With The Hedge Fund Industry's Biggest Cheerleader". Interview with Hamilton Nolan, gawker.com. October 5, 2015.

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• Nobody beats a bunch of journalists for inflating their rather mundane straightforward chores with a lot more melodrama and self-importance than the job should be asked to contain.

  Larry King

  Jobs, Self, Beats

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• Journalism consists in buying white paper at two cents a pound and selling it at ten cents a pound.

  Charles A. Dana

  Media, Two, White

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• Women? I love women. Life would have been virtually zero without them. Journalism? I really feel like I am a journalist... And courage? I had a boat named Courageous.

  Ted Turner

  Zero, Courageous, Boat

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