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“Perhaps the dumbest of these story lines is that [Pope] Francis has re-opened conversation and debate in a Church that had been closed and claustrophobic for 35 years under John Paul II and Benedict XVI. I defy anyone who, over the last 35 years, has spent time on the campuses of Notre Dame or Georgetown, or who has read the National Catholic Reporter, or who has gone to a meeting of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, to make that claim without experiencing a twinge of conscience that says, "I should wash my mouth out with soap."”

“Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.”

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Author:Russell Baker

“It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom.”

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Author:Russell Baker

“Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of.”

“We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe.”

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Author:Alfred Kinsey

“If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.”

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Author:Karl Kraus

“I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.”

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Author:Charles Kuralt

“Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.”

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Author:Charles Kuralt

“Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.”

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Author:Charles Kuralt

“When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.”

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Author:Charles Kuralt

“People from small towns have to have their edges roughed up to get along in the world. But as a street reporter, you learn quickly.”

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Author:Bill Kurtis

“I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.”

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Author:Neil LaBute

“I started as a print reporter. I’m a journalist and that’s what I do. My function is an anchorperson, but it’s in a journalism context, and gravitas and coats and ties and haircuts and all that sort of stuff, I’ll leave to others. My thing is just to do my job the best way I know how and as I say I’m very fortunate to be able to do it the way I want to do it.”

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Author:Jim Lehrer

“Do you know what White House correspondents call actors who pose as reporters? Anchors.”

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Author:Jay Leno

“And lot of Asian audiences and reporters don't like me to act as a bad guy. But I think I want to become an actor, I want to try different way.”

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Author:Jet Li

“Journalists are simply leftists disguised as reporters. They're political activists disguised as reporters.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Will some reporter, or some Republican on the Sunday shows, please ask why tax cuts raid the non-existent Social Security Trust Fund but all the Democrats' new spending doesn't? Will someone please ask that?”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.”

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“The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.”

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Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“In the 1970s, 'The Boys on the Bus' exposed how a clubby pack of male political reporters ruled the road to the White House and shaped the news. Four decades later, an outsider gal from Alaska has commandeered the 2012 media bus - and left Beltway journalism insiders eating her dust.”

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Author:Michelle Malkin

“Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk.”

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Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“A reporter asked recently, 'What keeps you up at night?' I replied that I generally sleep well, but if I ever do have trouble, I don't have to count sheep. I count all the states I'm glad I'm not the governor of.”

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Author:Mitch McConnell

“I like BuzzFeed, and I understand the pressure that online reporters are under. But I think everyone agrees that, despite all the awesome kitten gifs, they're still obligated to be skeptical of government officials and ask the right questions.”

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Author:Michael Moore

“A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom - it's gone.”

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Author:Edward R. Murrow

“No reporter is flying around in borrowed twin-engine airplanes.”

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Author:Dee Dee Myers

“Yesterday, the Pentagon warned U.S. reporters that they should get out of Baghdad as soon as possible because the U.S. could attack at any time. Then the Pentagon added, 'Whatever you do, don't tell Geraldo.'”

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Author:Conan O'Brien

“We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show.”

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Author:Carroll O'Connor

“I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write.”

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Author:Mary Oliver

“Here's a little newsflash for those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion. I'm going to Washington to serve this great country.”

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Author:Sarah Palin

“It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.”

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Author:Kate Adie

“I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.”

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Author:Kate Adie

“I respect and empathize with reporters and editors who must compete in today's environment. And I know full well that when I've been covering campaigns, which I still do, I've made my mistakes and have been far from perfect.”

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Author:Dan Rather

“Because when you watch US television, all the presenters and reporters, they're all out of central casting.”

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Author:Diane Abbott

“The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians.”

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Author:Andy Rooney

“As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.”

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Author:Andy Rooney

“In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.”

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Book:Anchorwoman

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“Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has to appeal to the commander's boss to get that changed.”

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Author:Bob Schieffer

“When my TV show, 'Sports Jobs with Junior Seau,' assigned me to be a 'Sports Illustrated' reporter for a weekend, I didn't realize I'd have to squeeze it in around another sports job. I had planned to retire from the NFL to enjoy the cushy lifestyle of a full-time reality TV star, but I wound up getting run over by a bull.”

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Author:Junior Seau

“But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.”

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Author:David Sedaris

“I'm not a reporter but the 'New Yorker' treats everyone like a reporter.”

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Author:David Sedaris

“If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.”

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Author:William Tecumseh Sherman

“The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.”

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Author:Hugh Sidey

“When you look at Clark Kent when he's working at the Daily Planet, he's a reporter. He doesn't fly through the air in his glasses and his suit.”

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Author:Gene Simmons

“The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story.”

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Author:Jim Bishop

“Reporters often forget that athletes are human beings.”

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Author:Willie Stargell

“When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played.”

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Author:Willie Stargell

“If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article.”

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Author:Willie Stargell

“I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.”

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Author:Tom Stoppard

“Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.”

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Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“In the '50s and '60s, journalism wasn't a profession. It wasn't something you went to college for - it was really more of a trade. You had a lot of guys who came up working in newspapers at the copy desk, or delivery boys, and then they would somehow become reporters afterward and learn on the job.”

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Author:Matt Taibbi

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