Henry David Thoreau Quotes

I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will occasionally discuss them if other people want to discuss them.

I don't read the papers or watch TV.

I read the papers like everybody else, so I don't complain about what they print.

I watch a ton of CNN.

I always have CNN on. That's where I get my ideas.

I don't read the paper.

Any person that don't read at least one well-written country newspaper is not truly informed.

[My father] was interested. He read the newspapers and read Time and U.S. News and World Report and people in stores would come along, you know, and they would talk politics.

Twitter is my main tool for ensuring news balance.

The more I watched cable, the more I realized the value of newspapers.

I consume the news daily. I'm not avoiding it.

I must admit I don't usually buy a daily paper, although I will get one if there's an interview I want to read.

I know journalists like to think that they are read by people like me, but I don't read them.

The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.

It's other people who make us wise, and I haven't known nearly enough.

Actually, I don't get to do it (watch 5 or so news shows) every day, but I manage to do it at least 5 times a week. And the rest of the time I'm doing interviews. I do an amazing amount of interviews.

It wouldn't kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.

We want someone to bring us the news.

I am an old consumer of papers. I cannot avoid reading my newspapers every morning.

A day without newspapers is like walking around without your pants on.

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

[On not reading newspapers:] If something important happens, your mother calls you.

I've always had a social awareness. My favorite channel on TV is BBC News 24. For a while, I had to have it on repeat in my house. I've always been interested in what's going on in the world.

I just think we as consumers of information media must be very clear what it is we are consuming. Whether we are choosing to get our information by listening to people fight about it. Or whether we're choosing to get it by listening to the facts or watching the facts as they're laid out and then reaching our own conclusions. It's very different ways of info gathering, but it's not all journalism.

It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose example he may regulate himself, his thoughts, desires, and hopes will become extravagant, and he the semblance, perhaps the reality, of a madman