Christiane Amanpour Quotes
Christiane Amanpour Quotes
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And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.
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And I really believe good journalism is good business.
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And one thing that I always believed and that I knew for certain was that I could never have sustained a personal relationship while I worked this hard, or while I was that driven this intensely by the story.
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But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars.
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But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world.
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For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?
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Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad.
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I am personally thrilled though by the changes at CNN, which no doubt you have all read about. because it means we are responding to the times.
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I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century.
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I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.
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I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent.
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I was showing a man and telling his story and explaining how ill he was, and it was a live camera and all of a sudden I realized that he was dying.
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If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?
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In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child.
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Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion and conviction I once told an interviewer that of course I would never get married. And I most definitely would never have children.
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Little did we know then that CNN would become the big league.
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More times than I care to remember I have sympathized with too many of them assigned like myself, to some of the world's royal bad places.
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Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people.
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We hear foreign accents on CNN. It's crazy, it's wild, who knows, maybe they'll take you because you certainly don't fit in, in the American spectrum of news.
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We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.
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We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.
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We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN.
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We, I believe, are in the fight of our lives to save this profession which we love. I believe we can do it, and I believe we can win this battle.
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