Reading Newspapers Quotes

• If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Humor

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• Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.

  Will Smith

  Funny, Inspiration, Humor

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  The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Business, Book, Reading

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• Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

  Ben Hecht

  Time, Business, Reading

  Ben Hecht (1954). “A child of the century”, Signet

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• People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

  A. J. Liebling

  Print Media, People, Political

  The New Yorker, en.wikiquote.org. April 7, 1956.

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• I keep reading between the lies.

  Goodman Ace

  Truth, Lying, Reading

  Goodman Ace (1966). “The fine art of hypochondria; or, How are you?”

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• Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.

  Erwin Knoll

  Hands, Stupidity, Stories

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• I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Motivational, Drinking, Months

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.135, Algora Publishing

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• [On not reading newspapers:] If something important happens, your mother calls you.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Mother, Reading, Important

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• Reading newspapers in the state of Maine is like paying somebody to tell you lies.

  Paul LePage

  Lying, Reading, Maine

  "LePage tells students to keep their options open" By Ben Mccanna, www.centralmaine.com. March 15, 2012.

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• The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Reading, Mean, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• I'm a news junkie who's constantly reading newspapers and magazines. I look around and see what's happening in the world.

  Michael Franti

  Reading, Looks, News

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• I'm not one of those who spring up yelling, "Yippee! Another day!" I'll grumble and sulk around a couple of hours, reading newspapers and trying to pick out an idea I might do something with on the show. But I don't really start functioning until noon or later; then about two I go to the studio and the pace begins to quicken.

  Johnny Carson

  Couple, Spring, Reading

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens who, reading newspapers, live and die in the belief that they have known something of what has been passing in their times.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Reading, Citizens, Looks

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.400, Penguin

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• Two hours on television just doesn't automatically happen. I'm up early, I'm reading newspapers online, talking to my staff, coming up with ideas.

  Wolf Blitzer

  Reading, Talking, Ideas

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• Formula One gives a platform to companies like Rolex - and that's just in media space, watching television or reading newspapers, digital or physical. You see the brand in the context of the competition and bring it to the attention of everybody on a regular basis.

  Martin Sorrell

  Reading, Space, Media

  Source: www.formula1.com

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• You all would be really shocked, if you were dropped back down into when I went to college, by the narrowness of the opinions you could get just by reading newspapers and magazines and watching TV.

  William Kristol

  Reading, College, Watching Tv

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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