#lists

Some of my best friends are Venture Capitalists, but let's face it, a hamster with Alzheimer's could make those kind of numbers. It's great work if you can get it. ↗

— Scott Adams

#best #capitalists #could #face #friends

Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation. ↗

— Ralph Allen

#always #cultural #forgotten #good #help

I think that of all the principles for journalism, the most important is to complicate simple things and simplify complicated things. At first sight, you may think something is simple, but it may conceal a great deal. However, facing a very complex thing, you should find out its essence. -Jin Yongquan ↗

— Judy Polumbaum

#efficacy #ethics #journalism #journalists #media

At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#faith #fundamentalists #haven #least #message

As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented productive specialisations that they actually live. ↗

— Guy Debord

#apparent #compensate #fragmented #identify #life

I think people can learn from my experience - you know, any young people who are under pressure, whether you work on Wall Street or you work in a factory in Alabama, and young journalists. ↗

— Jayson Blair

#any #experience #factory #i #i think

I amused myself playing with the journalists. ↗

— Brigitte Boisselier

#i #journalists #myself #playing

Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#autobiographical #because #false #how #know

Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#confided #experience #getting #hasn #heads

Judy Miller is the most innocent person in this case. I really thought that was outrageous that she was jailed and we needed as journalists to draw a line in the sand in a strong but thoughtful way. ↗

— Tom Brokaw

#draw #i #innocent #jailed #journalists