John Hersey Quotes
Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.
John Hersey
Quotes to Explore
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I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
Aaron Johnson
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My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'
Gabriel Mann
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I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.
Abby Wambach
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I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.
Zakk Wylde
Black Label Society
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Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
Sam Smith
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
Ian MacKaye
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I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
Nate Silver
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There is a fundamental notion at the core of American identity that, in this country, any little boy or girl can grow up to be president.
R. J. Cutler
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The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.
Umberto Eco
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I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own.
Fran Drescher
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If you aren't born here, to be a real New Yorker, you have to bring your talent, be a successful mentor, and support the New Yorkers who made the city by giving back.
Daniel Boulud
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There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.
John Calvin
