Anthony Shadid Quotes

#1. On the flip side, I enjoy covering the Arab world, I've spent my entire career here in the Middle East, but I would never call myself a war correspondent.

Anthony Shadid

#2. I hope it will come as no surprise that I have something to say.

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#3. As a journalist, your job is to bear witness.

Anthony Shadid

#4. The one thing that shaped my life was when I was 15 or 16: I knew I wanted to be a journalist. And not just a journalist, but a journalist in the Middle East, and to go back to the Arab world and try to understand what it meant to be Lebanese.

Anthony Shadid

#5. While I was gone, somebody rearranged on the furniture in my bedroom. They put it in exactly the same place it was. When I told my roommate, he said: "Do I know you?"

Steven Wright

#6. As Believers, we shine brightest in a sad and dark world; like a diamond that illuminates best when placed on black velvet.

Chris Alexander

#7. In any kind of conflict, you have a certain dehumanization that comes along with it. And it's important as a reporter, a writer, a journalist, to try to restore humanity.

Anthony Shadid

#8. I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.

Anthony Shadid

#9. Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.

Anthony Shadid

#10. You hear headlines from time to time about the Amazon rainforest disappearing at a greater or lesser rate ... The real story is that over time the rate has stayed just the same. Year after year, decade after decade, we have failed to stop or really even decrease deforestation ...

Patrick Symmes

#11. I started doing some interviews with elderly people in the family because I knew they would pass away and we would lose the power of their story.

Anthony Shadid

#12. The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes - when we write small to say something big.

Anthony Shadid

#13. I don't think there's any story worth dying for, but I do think there are stories worth taking risks for.

Anthony Shadid

#14. We must realize that people do not have to conform to one another. We are after all, ultimately beholden to ourselves.

Carlos Wallace

#15. I think Syria is often covered by phone. You have to talk to activists. You have to try to read the tea leaves. You have to talk to government officials. It's remote-control reporting in a way.

Anthony Shadid

#16. The Americans invaded a country without understanding what eight years of a war with Iran had meant, how that traumatized Iraq. They didn't appreciate what they support for a decade of sanctions in Iraq had done to Iraq and the bitterness that it created and that it wiped out the middle class.

Anthony Shadid

#17. Cultures that may seem as durable as stone can break like glass, leaving all the things that held them together unattended. I believe that the craftsman, the artist, the cook, and the silversmith are peacemakers. They instill grace; they lull the world to calm.

Anthony Shadid

#18. I love being physical, but I am extreme either way. I can be superfit. And then I can be really lazy and ignore everything.

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