Diane Sawyer Quotes (34 Quotes)


    An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day.

    I read this morning that Saddam Hussein also said the love that the Iraqis have for him is so much greater than anything Americans feel for their President because he's been loved for 35 years, he says, the whole 35 years.


    Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion - I've worked with my best friends in direct competition

    People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective.


    I like talking. I didn't know at the time I would have to worry so much about my hair.

    She even looks fabulous early in the morning.

    The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can.

    My involvement with them (TDA) is to give them ideas. But not necessarily who will be on the board.

    People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.

    I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't.

    Start in a small TV station so you can make all of your embarrassing mistakes early and in front of fewer people!

    The most fun is getting paid to learn things.

    I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.

    I'm not sure people are ever completely comfortable telling pollsters what they do and don't think.

    I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

    American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon.

    It's in the preparation -- in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and you didn't believe. It's making the extra call and caring a lot.

    We did exactly what everybody in the country did, watching it. You entered this state of sort of denials. You think, well, it must have been a tragic accident by an amateur pilot. And then you see the next plane coming.

    I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves.



    I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

    I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end.

    I mean, these are vehicles that both of us are in, on a continuous basis, ... Good Morning America.


    Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.

    Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism.

    I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.

    Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.

    If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.

    Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.

    An amazing journey. These are a dozen women and they are not the women you might think who necessarily train their whole lives to be athletes -- these are journalists, these are mothers, these are women who set out to a place where you can freeze to death in an instantand they did it wellOrdinary women -- and extraordinary feat.

    And it's not just us, I've seen other journalists doing it as well, anything that we have we're giving, ... Good Morning America.


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