Ethan Zuckerman Quotes

When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.

Ethan Zuckerman

• Growing
• Stories
• Focused
• Average
• International

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I almost took a job in Italy. It was really a great opportunity, but they didn't think I had enough international experience.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Great
  • Job
  • Experience

• I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Remember
  • Fun
  • Best

• To me, in life, if there's, like, a rule, and I think it's ridiculous, then of course I'll circumvent that but also point out how ridiculous the rule is. Other than that, if I go to a concert, and my seat is Row G, Seat 12, I'm sitting in Row G, Seat 12. I don't care if I'm with five other friends, I'm supposed to be in Seat 12, that's my seat.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Care

• I made a commitment... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Party
  • Myself
  • Leadership

• I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Like
  • Being
  • Profession

• I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Live
  • Past
  • Earth

• I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to really make it a challenge. I don't know how to create by taking the easy routes. I've tried, you know, I've tried to let myself, but I always struggle to compensate.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Help
  • Myself
  • Challenge

• Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Done
  • Water
  • Tree

• Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • You
  • Wish
  • Happiness

• When someone doesn't react to changes, the changes turn against him.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Changes
  • Him
  • Turn

• My mum is from Ghana, and she used to play highlife music in the house, and my dad used to listen to music.

  

  Fleur East
  • Music
  • She
  • House

• I want to stop piling people into prisons and stop branding people with a felony for a personal weakness.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • People
  • Want
  • Stop

• There's a lot of instant spotlight and pressure when it comes to a Bond song.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Song
  • Pressure
  • Bond

• I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Time
  • Know
  • Me

• I was quite happy with the way I went, I think.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Way

• They can put me in a jungle. Still, I can create.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • Me
  • Create
  • I Can

• What are you doing to magnify and grow your business? What are you doing for yourself? You have to self-motivate. I had to learn a million things on Google until I was able to meet people who I could partner with for help.

  

  Karen Civil
  • People
  • Business
  • Help

• What's weird is that I work with these directors and then I start channeling them. I kind of turn into them a bit - which is cool when you're working with Clint Eastwood.

  

  Jamie Bell
  • Work
  • Cool
  • Weird

• A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Down
  • Build
  • Carpenter

• I loved you, you know... It's not my fault the world is what it is.

  

  Ed Brubaker
  • World
  • Fault
  • I Loved

• Bullying is something every kid in public, parochial, or private school has witnessed by graduation. While unfortunate, it is part of growing up.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Up
  • School
  • Growing

• Sometimes people come in as a director, and they just want the result, and they barely want that to tell you the truth. Sometimes directors barely talk to the actors; they are so focused on the cinematic elements of the movie, getting the shot and getting the lighting right or getting the CGI effects right and all of that, and they just trust that you are just going to do what you do.

  

  Viola Davis
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Actors

• Better a superstitious believer than a rational unbeliever.

  

  Nachman of Breslov

• When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.

  

  Ethan Zuckerman
  • Growing
  • Stories
  • Focused