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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Christiane Amanpour

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Relationship

Always

" They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be. "

" Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win. "

" What we do and say and show really matters. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was. "

" 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. "

Christiane Amanpour

Road

Passion

" And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place. "

" Little did we know then that CNN would become the big league. "

" We do it because we're committed, because we're believers. "

" Yes, you are running businesses, and yes, we understand and accept that, but surely there must be a level beyond which profit from news is simply indecent. "

" 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. "

" If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does. "

" In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child. "

" Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people. "

" 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 have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get. "

" 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. "

" In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press. "