Jason Calacanis Quotes

The biggest problem I have in journalism is being quoted or misquoted and then being asked to defend something I haven't said.

I will not be misquoted!

Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?

I hate seeing myself misquoted.

Journalists have misquoted people for so long–and quoted them out of context–that many people like to have their words on record [in writing]. I don’t want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me… Just too much risk.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

I'm a great believer in the direct quote in quotation marks and the hard fact.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

When you take somebody's quote out of context, which happens all the time, nobody's ever going to go and do the research on their own and figure out that you got it wrong.

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.

Please don't quote me.

I tend to thrive on being misquoted. It's the only way I sound good.

Frankly, no newspaper is set up to monitor for cheats and fabricators.

It is an occupational hazard to be quoted out of context.

When you see yourself quoted in print and you're sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation.

I don't mind being asked anything! Not at all. I tell you what is annoying, is when you say something and somebody writes something that's completely different to what you said, and you're like, 'well that's not nice, because that's not what happened.'

People are always misquoting me.

I need to know everything inside quote marks is true.

I can't fudge what I write. But I can certainly fudge what I say.

I think people have a responsibility, if they write a letter, to make sure that they saw it themselves and it's not hearsay.

In my career, I do not stop for news when it's not true.

I don't give false claims any due.