Christiane Amanpour Quotes

Christiane Amanpour Quotes & Quotations
Name:
Christiane Amanpour
Type:
Journalist
Nationality:
English
Birth day:
January 12
Birth year:
1958

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    And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place. Christiane Amanpour
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    And I really believe good journalism is good business. Christiane Amanpour
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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. Christiane Amanpour
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    But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars. Christiane Amanpour
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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. Christiane Amanpour
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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? Christiane Amanpour
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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. Christiane Amanpour
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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. Christiane Amanpour
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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. Christiane Amanpour
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    I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was. Christiane Amanpour
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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. Christiane Amanpour
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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. Christiane Amanpour
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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? Christiane Amanpour
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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. Christiane Amanpour
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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. Christiane Amanpour
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    Little did we know then that CNN would become the big league. Christiane Amanpour
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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. Christiane Amanpour
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    Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people. Christiane Amanpour
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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. Christiane Amanpour
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    We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership. Christiane Amanpour
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    We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does. Christiane Amanpour
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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. Christiane Amanpour
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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. Christiane Amanpour

 

 

 

 

 

 

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