Christiane Amanpour quotes - page 2

Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people. (Christiane Amanpour)

I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way.

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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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And then there's always the crying and the weeping that we hear-children, women, even men. And these images and these sounds are always with me.

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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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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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I was planning, I told everybody, to take him on the road with me. At the very least I fully expected to keep up my hectic pace, and my passion as a war correspondent.

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I am no longer sure that when I go out there and do my job it'll even see the light of air, if the experience of my network colleagues is anything to go by.

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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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Little did we know then that CNN would become the big league.

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We do it because we're committed, because we're believers. (Christiane Amanpour)

Yes, you are running businesses, and yes, we understand and accept that, but surely there must be a level beyond which profit from news is simply indecent.

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Christiane Amanpour

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Occupation: English Journalist
Born: January 12, 1958
Quotes count: 37

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