Harry Reasoner Quotes

Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.

Harry Reasoner

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• I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college in 2006 and started going gung ho to the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I realized that that was what I was really interested in and what I really wanted to do.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Up
  • College
  • New

• I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Together
  • Faith
  • Fall

• Out of your surplus, you can help your allies, and Israel is a great ally. And this is no particular animus of Israel, but what I will say, and I will say over and over again, we cannot give away money we don't have.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Great
  • Money
  • Help

• I'm a believer in things happening for a reason.

  

  Fleur East
  • Reason
  • Things
  • Happening

• China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Party
  • Years
  • Born

• I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Kind
  • Look
  • Fantasy

• Successful ventures in business or philanthropy are built around great teams who can help us overcome tremendous challenges - and have the right experiences and relationships to do so.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Great
  • Business
  • Help

• Id rather have a fake smile than a nasty stare.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Smile
  • Fake
  • Nasty

• Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • You
  • Victory
  • Defeat

• A Russia that gradually begins to gravitate toward the West will also be a Russia that ceases to disrupt the international system.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Will
  • West
  • Begins

• Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way - pouty.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Screen
  • Cringe
  • Pouty

• It's very hard to find true friends when your life is a bumpy ride full of twists and turns. But, I'm glad that amidst all the ramblings in my life I have managed to win some great friends.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Life
  • Great
  • Friends

• I attended a post-college program in L.A. for Music Business and Production. Took several courses involving Music Production, Arrangement, and Songwriting.

  

  Adam Kluger
  • Music
  • Business
  • College

• The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Up
  • Game

• Young people deserve stable employment opportunities and not mountains of debt. When young people can access the middle class, America is strengthened.

  

  Patrick Murphy
  • People
  • America
  • Opportunities

• An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • People
  • Leadership
  • Revolution

• I don't run a non-profit. There are lots of non-profits in America - in Detroit, parts of Wall Street, etc. I run a not for profit. We're a business. The only difference is that instead of selling soap or sneakers, we sell hope and leadership.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Business
  • America
  • Hope

• I started writing songs when I was real young, when I was 3 years old. The piano spoke to me - I don't remember when I wasn't playing piano. My second grade talent show was the first time I performed my own thing. I dressed up as Dracula and played a song called 'Monster Rock' that I wrote. And I won.

  

  Ian Axel
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Courage
  • Temptation
  • Takes

• I write about how I was attracted to stripping because I didn't feel comfortable with my body, for instance, but there could be plenty of not-so-good reasons why I chose to go into journalism, too. Maybe someone had a trauma in childhood and it led them to become a nurse, or a lawyer, but because people stigmatize sex work they try to find a traumatic moment in your past and say, "There!"

  

  Craig Seymour
  • Childhood
  • Body
  • Write

• Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose. Like journalism, it deals in ideas as well as facts, but also in metaphors, symbols and myths.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Ideas
  • Facts
  • Fiction

• A blue eye is a true eye; Mysterious is a dark one, Which flashes like a spark sun! A black eye is the best one.

  

  William R. Alger
  • True
  • Black
  • Dark

• Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.

  

  Harry Reasoner
  • Profession
  • Journalism
  • Craft