Harris Faulkner Quotes

Harris Faulkner

Profession : Journalist

Birth : October 13, 1965

I'm sure it won't surprise you to learn that I kept a diary - actually, quite a number of them over the years.

Harris Faulkner

The U.S. military is known the world over for its advanced technology as well as the prowess, skill, and dedication of its service members. When you grow up in the company of its leaders, as I did, you understand that this greatness is something that is cultivated.

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I feel really blessed to work in a place that values me for what I bring as a journalist and as a professional storyteller and navigator of the news. But I also know that they appreciate about me, my perspective as a woman, as a black woman.

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Having a CEO, having that person run a news corporation who's female, is already a talking point.

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When you see me up on a breaking-news story, it is not good news. I'm not about to give you the secret to my mom's sweet potato pie.

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I am tasked with being that voice of calm and reason and disseminating the facts as we understand and know them.

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I'm not Pollyanna. Nobody has a magic wand.

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Can you name a state in the United States that doesn't get some interesting weather every now and then? No!

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The prominence of the market I guess is important to some people. For me, it was less about the number and more about the opportunities that might open up in that market. One of the questions I wanted to know about that next job was, what's your weather like? I am into the weather!

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Outnumbered Overtime' began as an online extension to the then-brand new hit, 'Outnumbered.' My goal was to turn an interactive, chat room type show into a source for news and compelling interviews.

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We just work hard to win the viewers respect and trust every single day.

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Local news taught me to take each moment as one of extreme importance - don't waste people's time. Give them solid information in a compelling fashion so they will remember it and use it in their lives.

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When the Murdoch family leadership chose Suzanne Scott to lead Fox News who had been at the channel for a number of years and knew inside and out, the system of winning, I was excited.

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I get flak from everybody, which is how I know I'm living my truth.

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When a black church is hit in South Carolina by someone with hate in their spirit, that's something that touches all of America, but as a person of color, I see that story even through a deeper prism of, 'Gosh, that takes us back to a time when black churches were targets in this country.'

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As I got older, my mother taught me to remember that your connection with people is based on what you're allowing them to touch about you, which was the opposite of what you get as a military kid, because dad's in a uniform. He's official; you don't poke that. But with mom, you do: Always question authority.

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I have a certain perspective and intolerance for people who try to twist and bend whatever the truth might be.

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I think it's impossible to be up close with people and to ask them to let you in if you're fake.

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Regardless of what all the research says about don't talk about politics at work, people are talking about what they see on the news.

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Sometimes I get slammed because I work at Fox and I am black. People are like, 'How could you work there? Who are you?' People really want to know what are your politics personally. Some of them, not everybody.

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