Top 51 Npr's Quotes

#1. They [NPR] are, of course, Nazis. They have a kind of Nazi attitude. They are the left wing of Nazism. These guys don't want any other point of view. They don't even feel guilty using tax dollars to spout their propaganda. They are basically Air America with government funding to keep them alive.

Roger Ailes

Npr's Quotes #27294
#2. And I tend to listen to NPR when I'm not writing.

Augusten Burroughs

Npr's Quotes #40926
#3. I'm kind of a 'Daily Show,' Bill Maher junkie. I listen to NPR and I still get the 'New York Times' paper delivered to my door, even though I live in L.A.

Constance Zimmer

Npr's Quotes #119742
#4. For me, the key is I always have to be the same person. If someone was to hear me say something on Fox and hear me say something different on NPR, they would say, 'The guy is a hypocrite.'

Juan Williams

Npr's Quotes #131285
#5. Hello and welcome to this collection of calls put together specifically to embarrass the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Now you'll hear us tackle the very pillars of science: physics, chemistry, fluid dynamics and, of course, cream rinse.

Tom Magliozzi

Npr's Quotes #370875
#6. I hate unsolicited wetness.

David Finch

Npr's Quotes #375606
#7. It isn't that NPR is matriarchal but that it has dedicated itself to not being patriarchal in its outlook and presentation, stipulating from the outset that its headline voices would not resound across the fruited plains from big male bags of air sent from Mount Olympus.

James Wolcott

Npr's Quotes #377463
#8. As much as I'd like to think and as much as people mistakenly think my audience is blue collar people in the heart of America, my audience is basically, in the States, an NPR audience. I play college towns in the summer because that's who comes to see me.

Steve Earle

Npr's Quotes #387105
#9. It was writing about music for NPR - connecting with music fans and experiencing a sense of community - that made me want to write songs again. I began to feel I was in my head too much about music, too analytical.

Carrie Brownstein

Npr's Quotes #433992
#10. I've enjoyed programming on NPR, but 'we're broke' and therefore all spending must be reduced.

Jaime Herrera Beutler

Npr's Quotes #435780
#11. I'm also working on a track for Howard Hewett, and a theme for a new NPR show.

George Duke

Npr's Quotes #459353
#12. I listen to NPR a lot. I love that.

Nikki Sixx

Npr's Quotes #485412
#13. I confess to being a CNN junkie. And when I'm driving, it's all NPR all the time.

John Grogan

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#14. We have to laugh. Life is hard and the news is often grim - you should be able to turn on NPR's Weekend Edition every week and know that we are going to make you think, make you question - and make you laugh, preferably out loud.

Rachel Martin

Npr's Quotes #523295
#15. The war in Congo rages on with no end in sight," the announcer said. "And now comes word of a new campaign by the soldiers, to find the women they have already raped and re-rape them." "Holy Christ on a cross!" Mom said. "I draw the line at re-raping." And she turned off NPR.

Maria Semple

Npr's Quotes #563956
#16. If you're purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it doesn't illuminate.

Werner Herzog

Npr's Quotes #583779
#17. The great thing about working with NPR - and, really, there's like a million of 'em - is all the cool stuff I get to do for the public. Meet the president. Hang out at the National Finals Rodeo in Vegas. Drink a $10,000 martini.

John Ridley

Npr's Quotes #624724
#18. Both CNN and NPR prohibit political activity by all journalists, no matter their assignment.

Bill Dedman

Npr's Quotes #637827
#19. I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.

Ted Koppel

Npr's Quotes #643086
#20. Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR.

Paul Weyrich

Npr's Quotes #761631
#21. Jesus Christ, is this an NPR convention?

Jack White

Npr's Quotes #793071
#22. While the meeting I participated in turned out to be a ruse, I made statements during the course of the meeting that are counter to NPR's values and also not reflective of my own beliefs. I offer my sincere apology to those I offended.

Ron Schiller

Npr's Quotes #817268
#23. I started out doing production work on promos, stuff like that. I didn't think it was cool to be working for NPR. I didn't need anything to be cool. I just wanted something to do that would be interesting. It was fun. I didn't think of it as anything else but fun.

Ira Glass

Npr's Quotes #835492
#24. Instead of the smoldering, soul-baring, Abelard-to-Heloise-sans-castration solicitations you rightfully deserve, you're getting stupefying lines like: I'm listening to NPR. Do you want to come over and make out?

Maria Dahvana Headley

Npr's Quotes #847719
#25. One of the problems with NPR is that there is so much political correctness that if you've got a name that looks like it was made up by Rudyard Kipling, you've got a better chance of getting hired. I'm a white guy named Tony Snow, for heaven's sake. That's as white as it goes.

Tony Snow

Npr's Quotes #898961
#26. I was thinking in a Scottish brogue, because I'd just heard this guy interviewed on NPR, Lonnie McSomething.

Patricia Gaffney

Npr's Quotes #901447
#27. I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.

Noam Chomsky

Npr's Quotes #915211
#28. Ford has one last piece of advice for anyone who's reading his or her first commentary for NPR: "Bring a camera so you can take pictures of the studio, since God knows this stuff doesn't happen to you every day." Commentary

Jonathan Kern

Npr's Quotes #1005093
#29. I wrote so much about fandom and participation for NPR that I eventually realized my most fertile way of participating in music is to actually play it, at least in a way that made the most sense to me.

Carrie Brownstein

Npr's Quotes #1031231
#30. It was with 9/11 that I came to fully appreciate and embrace NPR's irreplaceability as a sanity preserver, its unique virtues as first responder on the burning scene.

James Wolcott

Npr's Quotes #1042894
#31. Even after they fired me, called me a bigot and publicly advised me to only share my thoughts with a psychiatrist, I did not call for defunding NPR. I am a journalist, and NPR is an important platform for journalism.

Juan Williams

Npr's Quotes #1139369
#32. The lessons learned in journalism also apply. Writing for NPR has taught me to cut a piece in half and then in half again - without losing the essence. Apply that to the swollen prose of a bulky novel and you might reveal a beautiful work.

Julianna Baggott

Npr's Quotes #1156227
#33. Last year, on a long car trip, I was listening to Rush Limbaugh shout. I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him. I listen to NPR: "World to end-poor and minorities hardest hit." I like to argue with the radio.

P. J. O'Rourke

Npr's Quotes #1157565
#34. What NPR did, I'm very proud of, and what NPR stood for is non-racist, non-bigoted, straightforward telling of the news.

Ron Schiller

Npr's Quotes #1208355
#35. I listen to a lot of podcasts, which are split down the middle between comedy and board game podcasts, and a couple of eclectic ones like 'The Dinner Party' from NPR, where they take an event that happened that week in history and give you a cocktail recipe inspired by it.

Rich Sommer

Npr's Quotes #1223422
#36. I'm not always up to date on everything that's going on, but I am somewhat informed. I listen to NPR. And I actually watch Fox News, because I believe, if you just listen to the things that agree with you, you're not really seeing anything else.

Morena Baccarin

Npr's Quotes #1231552
#37. There's a marvelous peace in not publishing, there's a stillness. When you publish, the world thinks you owe something. If you don't publish, they don't know what you're doing. You can keep it for yourself.

J.D. Salinger

Npr's Quotes #1235799
#38. When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Npr's Quotes #1279999
#39. The voice I've chosen to turn to is that of NPR. With a reputation for some of the finest journalism in the country, the nonprofit organization is renowned for its unbiased stance - to the point that it's been accused of being both conservative and liberal.

Lynda Resnick

Npr's Quotes #1301368
#40. So many people are not aware that NPR writes things, 'posts' things. But we are spreading the word.

Robert Krulwich

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#41. I listen to NPR when I listen to the radio, but I don't listen to the radio that much. You know, I listen to Garrison Keillor, I listen to 'Prairie Home Companion.'

Al Franken

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#42. We have some breaking news from our dedicated kale coverage desk here at NPR.Starting now, Chick-fil-A has kale on its menu next to the spicy chicken sandwich and the waffle fries. It's called the Superfood Side.

Ari Shapiro

Npr's Quotes #1360955
#43. I've always thought the Right-wing were ones that were inflexible and intolerant,and now I'm coming to realize that the orthodoxy at NPR, it's representing the Left.

Juan Williams

Npr's Quotes #1361404
#44. I'd like to think that the boring lady who's talking to me now is a lot sexier and more interesting than the one who's doing NPR. You know, studious and reserved, and - I bet you're a lot of fun at a party.

Gene Simmons

Npr's Quotes #1432921
#45. I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.

Ira Glass

Npr's Quotes #1557363
#46. I listen to NPR and baseball games when I'm in my car. I mean, exclusively NPR and baseball games, and that's it, as far as the radio.

Juliana Hatfield

Npr's Quotes #1670947
#47. They wish the church could be more diverse, but then leave to meet in a coffee shop with other well-educated thirtysomethings who are into film festivals, NPR, and carbon offsets.

Kevin DeYoung

Npr's Quotes #1700491
#48. If you go to a party populated by the NPR crowd and you start talking about JonBenet Ramsey, people will look at you as if you had forgotten your pants.

Bill James

Npr's Quotes #1763419
#49. We need to cut these things that aren't constitutionally mandated, that are kind of on the periphery, the fluffery, like NPR and National Endowment for the Arts. Those are obvious.

Sarah Palin

Npr's Quotes #1784645
#50. It turns out that we're not the only ones who go out on a scientific limb as we discuss or attempt to discuss cars, car repairs and scientific education in America today.

Tom Magliozzi

Npr's Quotes #1864757
#51. All it takes is for me to try and not think of Garrett, and suddenly, he's consuming my every idle musing. Picking a radio station? Garrett only listened to NPR. Browsing the refrigerator for orange juice? Garrett likes the pulp style best.

Abby McDonald

Npr's Quotes #1872690

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