Sydney Schanberg (Sydney Hillel Schanberg) Quotes
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.
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Different people get different things out of the images. It doesn't matter what it's about, all that matters is how it makes you feel.
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I don't really compare any of the characters I play; I try to go into them being very open to what the characters can offer and what I can bring to them and then bring a being to life.
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I like America, where believers eddy around each other like currents of air. Even our atheists are devout! To be an American is to be a believer. I don't have much faith in institutions, but I still believe in people.
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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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In many parts of the world, especially Pakistan and Afghanistan, terrorism, war and conflict stop children to go to their schools. We are really tired of these wars. Women and children are suffering.
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Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.
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The gap between being a bad person and being a criminal is often wide.
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I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.
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I have almost no capacity for worship. What I have is the knowledge that it is my duty to worship and worship only what I believe to be true.
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I need someone physically stronger than me.... I am always on top. It's really unfortunate. I am begging for the man that can put me on the bottom. Or the woman. Anybody that can take me down.
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The very quality of books to read and facts to master with which the twentieth-century man is confronted encourages him to think broadly and superficially about much, but hinders him from thinking deeply and thoroughly about anything.
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War happens to people, one by one. That is really all I have to say and it seems to me I have been saying it forever. Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
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For me, journalism has been more a matter of projecting a particular approach to covering policies, to covering issues. It was a continuation of what I tried to do in government.
