Scott Pelley Quotes

Twitter, Facebook and Reddit, that’s not journalism. That's gossip. Journalism was invented as an antidote to gossip.

Scott Pelley

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• I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for. That can encompass our elected officials' adherence to law and our country's return to the Geneva Conventions.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • Think
  • Law

• I've noticed that, with many of the authors I like, I tend to think I would dislike them as human beings or that there'd be a healthy amount of debate if I ever did meet them.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Think
  • Healthy
  • Debate

• Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • People
  • Great
  • Science

• It's good - it's great when somebody who is 20 years younger than you comes up and says, 'Wow, we just got turned on to you guys, and you're really great,' or something like that. I like that.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• I was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Growing
  • Same
  • Group

• My earlier exposure to physics certainly helped me in the use of biophysical techniques like crystallography, the use of computing, calculations, etc.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Physics
  • Helped
  • Exposure

• The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Life
  • Real
  • Political

• I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.

  

  M. Ward
  • Time
  • Good
  • Pretty

• War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Nothing
  • Policy

• I've been a lucky boy.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Boy
  • Lucky
  • Been

• When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Determination

• Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Done
  • Power
  • Politics

• I will be the president of the nation who keeps pledges.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • President
  • Will
  • Nation

• In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • American
  • Talking
  • China

• The PC is successful because we're all benefiting from the competition with each other. If Twitter comes along, our games benefit. If Nvidia makes better graphics technology, all the games are going to shine. If we come out with a better game, people are going to buy more PCs.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Game
  • Technology

• Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Children
  • May
  • Everyone

• Sometimes there has to be a goat on some level, and I'm totally fine with that being me.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Me
  • Fine
  • Level

• I discovered, though, that once having given a pig an enema there is no turning back, no chance of resuming one of life's more stereotyped roles.

  

  E. B. White
  • Life

• I run around with hillbilly girlsThe weekend sits on my hillbilly worldYou better be ready when the sun goes downThat's when country comes to town.

  

  Toby Keith
  • Country
  • Sun
  • Weekend

• There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it now - which prevented me from being perfectly happy or making a woman perfectly happy.

  

  Conrad Veidt
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • Happy

• Eclectic is a word that appears almost as much as the word smarmy in rock journalism and I've come to the fact, just as a personal side, this reminds of Oscar Wilde's insight that criticism is the highest form of autobiography. I think that's exactly what rock journalism has attempted to do, to celebrate its autobiography at my expense.

  

  Van Dyke Parks
  • Thinking
  • Rock
  • Criticism

• They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.

  

  William Congreve
  • Together
  • Reputation
  • Gossip

• Don't give me truth, just give me gossip And skeletons from people's closets, I wanna be normal And millions buy it, I am blinded by The SUN.

  

  Benjamin Zephaniah
  • Truth
  • Sun
  • Gossip

• Twitter, Facebook and Reddit, that’s not journalism. That's gossip. Journalism was invented as an antidote to gossip.

  

  Scott Pelley
  • Journalism
  • Gossip
  • Antidote