I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.


Morley Safer

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I think he was unhappy about being pulled over, as any citizen would be.
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As a citizen, who one day might need a rescue, I would like to see it filled.
PETER LACOUTURE
I would like to think of my own status as what you called 'citizen of the world' or a 'citizen of a ...
AZAR NAFISI
You think it - wise - to trust Hagrid with something as important as this?"
"I would trust Hagr...
J.K. ROWLING
I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has c...
WERNER HERZOG
I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.
NAT KING COLE
Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged...
OLIVER CROMWELL
I would strongly tell Mr. and Mrs. Citizen ... be very vigilant,
TOMMY THOMPSON
Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be ha...
OLIVER CROMWELL
Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be ha...
CLAUDE M. BRISTOL
If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for...
CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU
Who cares what are you eating??
Who cares where are you?
Who cares what are you posting??<...
DEYTH BANGER
The house is in a trust which will be given to charity. As much as I would like to help, I have no s...
DEBORAH EASTMAN
I cannot imagine any responsible citizen would have objected to giving the name,
ANTONIN SCALIA
I was an American citizen, and I had as many rights as anyone else.
FRED KOREMATSU
I mean, everyone says Citizen Kane. It isn't that great, anyway. And Orson Welles I knew well, o...
PATRICK MACNEE
I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I wa...
QUEEN LATIFAH
I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at ...
SHARON OLDS
We have very little faith in the Lord, very little trust. If we trusted the Lord as much as we trust...
THADDEUS OF VITOVNICA
I don't trust the ocean, either; it would kill me as soon as not. It doesn't mean I'm afraid of it.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
If you cannot have faith and trust in your police officer --
either as a citizen or as a juror ...
GIL GARCETTI
I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano.
ETHEL MERMAN
The prosecutor has withdrawn the case before plea... which is a step where charges are dropped for l...
TRUST MANDA
No citizen is apolitical; as a citizen, by definition, has to take interest in public affairs.
MOHAMMAD HAMID ANSARI
My first big challenge, and I knew that from the word go, was going to be to get citizen support and...
DALLAS HEDRICK
The letter offended me personally, not as a council member, but as a citizen of Warrick County. I in...
GARY MEYER
I would trust him with all my kids.
DAVE DUDECK
I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this te...
TA-NEHISI COATES
I just think it would be easier to trust God if I had extra money to trust him with.
DONALD MILLER
I would be true, for there are those who trust me; I would be pure, for there are those who care; I ...
HOWARD ARNOLD WALTER
I thought it would be good for the area. It just seemed like it has a good wholesome message and my ...
JAY SHOWS
I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.
BAO DAI
But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutal...
SEAMUS HEANEY
I would like that no citizen of the state feels alone and helpless. The entire nation is with them.
ATAL BIHARI VAJPAYEE
I am proud to be an American Citizen.
ROBERT PURVIS
I am a citizen of the world, and also a citizen of Ukraine.
VICTOR PINCHUK
I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a custom...
JAMES CASH PENNEY
If you use your office as you would a private trust, and the moneys as trust funds, if you faithful...
ROSWELL P. FLOWER
He knows this state as well as any citizen knows this state,
JOSEPH BRUNO
I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
STANLEY BALDWIN
I have not come here in any political capacity. I have come here as a citizen of India.
AAMIR KHAN
Any decent Iraqi would not do that, and every good citizen rejects that, too,
AHMED IBRAHIM
A judge would say 'He's a good citizen and unlikely to do this again'.
DOUGLAS BERMAN
And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade ...
CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS
I don't trust an organization that would make policy out of fear.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ
Logically, harmony must come from the heart... Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use forc...
DALAI LAMA
It's outrageous that I, as an American citizen, can't go and talk to someone on Mexican soil.
KIRBY JONES
This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS
If I had the day off and knew everyone else was voting, I wouldn't miss it. It would become a ro...
ADAM GRANT
I believed I would never trust another person for as long as I lived. Yet, I couldn't help but trust...
RACHEL HIGGINSON
My childhood was very sheltered. I grew up in a palace. But I lived in Morocco as a Moroccan citizen...
MOHAMMED VI OF MOROCCO
I had hoped to be here in the capacity of town attorney, but I am here as a town citizen.
DENNIS CURTIN
I am a Roman citizen.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence...
PAUL ROBESON
I can't wait until Monday and want to complete subscription as soon as possible, so I bought a token...
ABDUL AZIZ
If I wanted a loving father, a faithful husband, an honorable neighbor, and a just citizen, I would ...
JOHN TYNDALL
As a dancer, you really try to stay true to whatever the choreographer/artistic director is giving y...
JUDITH JAMISON
I thought it was my obligation as a citizen to come forward. This is the right thing to do.
JUDD BURSTEIN
I put my trust in the Lord and prayed everything would be all right.
JAMES FIRMIN
I am a citizen of the world.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI
I really would have liked to love, but I didn’t trust myself to allow it.
KARL VALENTIN
If you trust nobody then you are just as foolish as when you trust everybody.
VIKRANT PARSAI
I had a sense of debt to the medical profession and to surgery particularly. I would not be as ambie...
JEFFREY TATE
If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they br...
JOHN HOPE
If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have ...
EDWARD SNOWDEN
I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at a...
ANA CASTILLO
We no longer live in a mass-media world with a few centralized choke points with just a few editors ...
ZEYNEP TUFEKCI
My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She's a U.S. citizen, so I'm a U.S. citizen.
TED CRUZ
Our misplaced trust in the stock market and smarter, safer ways to invest.
EDWARD WINSLOW
President Nixon was a pragmatic strategist. He would engage, not contain, China, but he would also q...
LEE KUAN YEW
I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.
FAWN HALL
I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
STANLEY BALDWIN
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."

[As quoted in Plutarch's SOCRATES
I am a citizen of the world.
SYLVIA BEACH
I am a citizen of the world
DEMOSTHENES
Who am I? Simply, A World Citizen!
MUSTAFA SAHIN
I'm a civilian, a citizen.
DAVID REMNICK
I am a citizen of the world.
DIOGENES OF SINOPE
As citizen(s) of the country and as a human being(s), we want to help out.
BOB MORRISON
In my view, you stepped on his rights as an American citizen and as a human being.
BOB KEELEY
Who would not rather trust and be deceived?
ELIZA COOK
trust was as painful as love
NICOLE WILLIAMS
I would rather die than betray his trust."
"That's not saying much, seeing as you're already de...
J.K. ROWLING
When I cast someone in a movie, I have to absolutely trust who they are as a human being. Trust is t...
DEREK CIANFRANCE
You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don't consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG
As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
MARIANNE MOORE
I don't think a reporter necessarily becomes an arm of law enforcement. I think a reporter is li...
EDWIN MEESE
As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.
JOAN GUSSOW
I think I've been a great citizen.
O. J. SIMPSON
I just have to trust the coaches that they know what they've been doing. I was a worrier. Now, I'm n...
BRIAN CLARK
For love to flourish there has to be trust. Promises don’t matter as much as
personal choice.
ANN AGUIRRE
As a taxpayer, a native of Canyon County and a citizen of this United States, I seek to serve my com...
CAROL MITCHELL
I am here today as an American citizen and an engineer whose life has been devastated by that (H-1B)...
DAVID HUBER
He sees them as well as anybody, and I trust what he has to stay.
DAVE TIPPETT
If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it?
KENDRICK LAMAR
I personally think 'Chimes of Midnight' is a much better film than 'Citizen Kane.'
CHRISTIAN MCKAY
It's humanizing. The policeman is now seen as a citizen who needs a salary.
EMIR SADER
As far I'm working on The life Of one Kid 7... continue!
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With technology and social media and citizen journalism, every rock that used to go unturned is now ...
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I have little patience with anyone who is not self-satisfied. I am always pleased to see my friends,...
ROBERT MORLEY
The greatest poem ever knownIs one all poets have outgrown:The poetry, innate, untold,Of being only ...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
Poetry, men attain By subtler pain More flagrant in the brain - An honesty unfeigned, A heart unchai...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure is too great for his income of id...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
Truth is the strong compost in which beauty may sometimes germinate
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
Informal is what women always say they're going to be and never are
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
There was so much handwriting on the wall that even the wall fell down
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.
ROBERT MORLEY
The French are a logical people, which is one reason the English dislike them so intensely. The othe...
ROBERT MORLEY
Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late?
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
When you give someone a book, you don’t give him just paper, ink, and glue. You give him the possi...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
Everything they said she has to be she's contradicted. She's small and has a tough look, her face is...
PAUL MORLEY
Life's a lot different from what people pretend. That's why pretending is fun. I used to think it wa...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
It was just a bang and then I heard sirens.
JOHN MORLEY
Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY