George Johnson Quotes

News is becoming more of a conversation. You can express opinions online in real time. You don't send a letter to the editor and wait a week.

George Johnson

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• I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Want
  • See
  • News

• Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was not engaged in subversive work; she was an apolitical project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the Reuters news agency.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Work
  • She
  • News

• What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Nothing
  • Conversation

• I definitely have my opinions that I'm very vocal about and I'm not afraid to put them out there.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Afraid
  • Very
  • Opinions

• Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.

  

  T. Berry Brazelton
  • Want
  • Will
  • Opinions

• The words we use have weight. Whether it's in a conversation with a friend or something said publicly on stage or broadcast. And as performers, we know that because that's why we choose the words we use - that's the whole point of comedy.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Why
  • Words
  • Comedy

• In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Should
  • Made
  • News

• An interesting insight into the ruthlessness of studio executives: I was having a conversation with Alex Gansa, a creator of 'Homeland,' and I said, 'So you guys must have seen 'Life' and liked me in it, right? That's the most recent thing I've done over here.' And he went, 'No, Damian. You actually nearly didn't get the job because of 'Life.'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • Done
  • Job

• Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Men
  • Just
  • Opinions

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

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • People
  • Read
  • News

• Islamic fundamentalism in its activist manifestation is bad news. Religious fundamentalism in general is bad news. We know about religious fundamentalism in South Africa. Calvinist fundamentalism has been an unmitigated force of benightedness in our history.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Bad
  • History
  • Religious

• Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Done
  • Question
  • Facts

• I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • News
  • Watch
  • Obsessed

• I'm open to doing any kind of role and any kind of genre as long as it's interesting and as long as I feel it could be a great character to play. I never take into my own personal opinions or my own public image into account when I chose movie roles.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Great
  • Long
  • Character

• Other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Power
  • Destiny

• It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Community
  • Ignorance
  • Opinions

• I had a great conversation with Trent Reznor. Trent said, "I'd have a sixpack, too, if I didn't write my own music!"

  

  Ian Astbury The Cult
  • Great
  • Music
  • Writing

• Israel's strength will allow it to face the situation. We will carry on running the country and pray for good news from the hospital.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • Good
  • Country
  • Running

• Sure there's a percentage of people who are like, "It snowed in May. I don't believe in climate change." Well, that's crazy, but that's always gonna be the case. I suppose if climate change happens much faster than even the dire experts predict, then I suppose opinions will change.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Believe
  • May

• We live in a time of turmoil. Earthquakes and tsunamis wreak devastation, governments collapse, economic stresses are severe, the family is under attack, and divorce rates are rising. We have great cause for concern. But we do not need to let our fears displace our faith. We can combat those fears by strengthening our faith.

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Stress
  • Economic
  • Divorce

• If you are seeking, seek us with joy For we live in the kingdom of joy. Do not give your heart to anything else But to the love of those who are clear joy, Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair. For there are hopes: they are real, they exist – Do not go in the direction of darkness – I tell you: suns exist.

  

  Rumi
  • Joy
  • Despair
  • Seek

• Mara Casey gave me my first job. I saw something online, and it was for a part in a 'Gilmore Girls' episode, and I thought I was right for it.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Job
  • Me
  • Thought

• The United States enjoy a scene of prosperity and tranquility under the new government that could hardly have been hoped for.

  

  George Washington
  • Government
  • Enjoy
  • Scene

• News is becoming more of a conversation. You can express opinions online in real time. You don't send a letter to the editor and wait a week.

  

  George Johnson
  • Conversation
  • News
  • Opinions