Christiane Amanpour is a famous Journalist from England, he/she is 66 years old and still alive, born January 12, 1958.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac capricorn, who is known for Determination, Dominance, Perservering, Practical, Willful.
Our collection contains 32 quotes who is written / told by Christiane.
32 Famous quotes by Christiane Amanpour
"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"
"We do it because we're committed, because we're believers"
"Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people"
"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"
"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"
"Little did we know then that CNN would become the big league"
"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"
"If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive"
"If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?"
"In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child"
"Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad"
"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?"
"But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars"
"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"
"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"
"I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get"
"'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"
"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"
"We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership"
"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"
"They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be"
"I'm not an American but I have always had the outsiders' respect for the American people and the American way"
"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"
"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"
"And I really believe good journalism is good business"
"And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place"
"I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was"
"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"
"Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win"
"What we do and say and show really matters"
"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"
"In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press"
