Michael Jackson Quotes

Criticizing reporters is like boo-ing at the Special Olympics.

Michael Jackson

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• I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Some
  • Reporters
  • Alienated

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

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Politician
  • Reporters

• Being a good writer doesn’t make you a good reporter, it takes hustle.

  

  David Carr
  • Good
  • Hustle
  • Reporters

• Max Askeli started this very good magazine The Reporter. In fact, Meg Greenfield, who's now the editorial page editor of The Washington Post, was one of the star reporters there.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Magazine
  • Editor
  • Reporters

• Reporters listen, photographers look. If you are doing your job seriously as a photojournalist, your sight must be the primary sense that you use at all times.

  

  Bill Eppridge
  • Job
  • Sense
  • Photographers

• Without editors planning assignments and copy editors fixing mistakes, reporters quickly deteriorate into underwear guys writing blogs from their den.

  

  George Vecsey
  • Mistakes
  • Editors
  • Reporters

• The smartest people in Washington are the political reporters. They write about their inferiors.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • People
  • Writing
  • Political

• The reporters are needed to validate the historical record.

  

  Witold Walczak
  • Record
  • Historical
  • Reporters

• I got rid of all those reporters.

  

  Myrna Loy
  • Rid
  • Reporters

• The story of journalism, on a day-to-day basis, is the story of the interaction of reporters and officials

  

  Michael Schudson
  • Stories
  • Journalism
  • Interaction

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

  

  Carroll O'Connor
  • Night
  • Needs
  • Audience

• In my mother's belly, I remember not liking the tempi my father played the Beethoven Sonatas in.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Remember
  • Mother
  • Father

• I've gotten to wear such beautiful clothes and had such a variety and it's just been so nice because I feel like I've grown so much with my style and everything because I've been able to have fun with it. It's really fun for me.

  

  Leighton Meester
  • Fun
  • Beautiful
  • Nice

• Many events in our lives are the result of things beyond our control. While it is comforting to think, 'I'm in charge,' in truth, most changes effected by individuals are very limited in scope.

  

  Jacque Fresco
  • Truth
  • Control
  • Comforting

• For the gun work, I had more of the basic training from the previous [movie John Wick] and the weapon work I have done in the past. In the second movie [John Wick 2], it really went on into another level. I've done the three gun training, where you worked with the pistol, rifle and shotgun. So that all is in the film.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Work
  • Done
  • Movie

• When I pick up a pencil, that this is a rough draft. This is not going anywhere, and no one's going to see it. You have permission to make all the mistakes you want. It signals freedom to me, and it signals mistakes. Then when I put it on the computer, a different part of my brain kicks in and I really evaluate every single word and sentence and make decisions. I like that step of polishing while I'm rewriting the entire thing, not just cutting and pasting. Really putting in every word and making a decision: is this something I can stand by?

  

  Lily King
  • Up
  • Different
  • Freedom

• We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Up
  • God
  • Believe

• He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Value
  • Knows
  • Pleasure

• Breakfast without orange juice is like a day without sunshine.

  

  Anita Bryant
  • Breakfast
  • Sunshine
  • Juice

• The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of people, and then they take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Environment
  • Christ
  • Changing

• I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I've had my breasts lifted - but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Lost
  • Breasts
  • Cosmetics

• Gamble, cheat, lie, and steal. Let me explain: Gamble for your best shot in life - dare to take risks. Cheat those who would have you be less than you are. Lie in the arms of those you love. And finally, steal every moment of happiness.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Money
  • Happiness

• Criticizing reporters is like boo-ing at the Special Olympics.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Reporters
  • Special Olympics