Western Journalism Quotes & Sayings

The sheer novelty and glamor of the Western diet, with its seventeen thousand new food products every year and the marketing power - thirty-two billion dollars a year - used to sell us those products, has overwhelmed the force of tradition and left us where we now find ourselves: relying on science and journalism and government and marketing to help us decide what to eat. — Michael Pollan

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Even with college, the reason I wanted to go so badly is because I wanted to major in film. I want to take screenwriting classes and learn more about behind the scenes stuff, because I love people like Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig who are able to write a lot of their own material and be so involved in everything they do. — Miranda Cosgrove

I think that I think, therefore I think that I am; — Ambrose Bierce

I was in L.A. in '08. It was a cold Saturday night. I had spread my phone number out to a score of women and was just indulging this sweet, sad, elegiac, bale loneliness - don't tell me you haven't been there. — James Ellroy

It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know if there was anything new about one dead white man. Richard would write about this, the rule of Western journalism: One hundred dead black people equal one dead white person. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful. — Gabe Newell

One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters. — George Herbert Palmer

Whatever you may think of Judaism, Lyuba, in the end it's just a codified system of anxieties. — Gary Shteyngart

Richard exhaled. It was like somebody sprinkling pepper on his wound: Thousands of Biafrans were dead, and this man wanted to know if there was anything new about one dead white man. Richard would write about this, the rule of Western journalism: One hundred dead black people equal to one dead white person. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown. — Victor Garber

Fighting to scale back a reactionary initiative is one thing. Supporting the scaled back version, though, is a betrayal when the scaled back version does exactly the same thing just not as much. This sort of thing is a strategy for the ACLU. — Anonymous

The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism. — Walter Lippmann