Christiane Amanpour Quotes
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If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.
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Because I am foreign I was assigned to the foreign desk. I kid you not, its true.
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Perhaps the most important thing I could say is to never be thrown by failure and mistakes. Each and everything that happens, even if it was not what you hoped would happen, is a valuable, life-learning tool. And you will only achieve success if you know how to learn from your failures and mistakes. It’s vital.
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Im not an American but I have always had the outsiders respect for the American people and the American way.
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I do believe that is a template that I stick very strongly to to tell the truth in an increasing swelter of lies and misinformation and disinformation.
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They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.
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People are interested if you tell stories well and relevantly.
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Some people accused me of being pro-Muslim in Bosnia, but I realised that our job is to give all sides an equal hearing, but in cases of genocide you can't just be neutral. You can't just say, 'Well, this little boy was shot in the head and killed in besieged Sarajevo and that guy over there did it, but maybe he was upset because he had an argument with his wife.' No, there is no equality there, and we had to tell the truth.
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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'm thrilled to be joining the incredible team at ABC News. Being asked to anchor 'This Week' and the superb tradition started by David Brinkley, is a tremendous and rare honor, and I look forward to discussing the great domestic and international issues of the day.
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What we do and say and show really matters.
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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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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 strongly believe that journalism is one of the most noble professions, because without an informed world, and without an informed society, we are weak, we are weak.
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In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.
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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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My view is that when lies become mixed up with the truth, it's a very dangerous world.
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In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.
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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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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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And I really believe good journalism is good business.
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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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U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next.
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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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I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished.
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And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.
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What Americans don't care much about is the piffle we put on TV these days, what they don't care about is boring, irrelevant, badly told stories, and what they really hate is the presumption that they're too stupid to know the difference.
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We turn now over the debate of the proposed Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero....The controversy has raised profound questions about religious tolerance and prejudice in the United States.
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Mostly, as I said, a desire to do a bit of good, and the quaint notion that this is what we signed up for, this is the business that we have chosen.
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I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.
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