Sydney Schanberg (Sydney Hillel Schanberg) Quotes
You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on.
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Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.
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You can go to work and actually make someone else's job less miserable. Use your job to help others.
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The poem goes form the poet’s gibberish to The gibberish of the vulgate and back again.
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To take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is robbery. To take something from one person and then turn it over to another in exchange for as much money as you can get: that is business. Robbery is so much more stupid, since it is satisfied with a single, frequently dangerous profit; whereas in business it can be doubled without danger.
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Be inspired but not proud.
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Woodrell's storytelling is as melodic, jangly and energetic as a good banjo riff.... Sammy Barlach's story is a tragedy, but the telling of it is a pleasure.
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It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them.
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I think what motivated me was just hope. Something inside of me, deep down in my guts, always felt like there was something in there.
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My interest in science was always essentially limited to the study of principles.... That I have published so little is due to this same circumstance, as the great need to grasp principles has caused me to spend most of my time on fruitless pursuits.
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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists. An artist is someone who makes art too. He did not invent it. How it started — "to hell with it." It is obvious that it has no progress. The idea of space is given him to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space. He fills it with an attitude. The attitude never comes from himself alone.
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When God gives you AIDS - and God does give you AIDS, by the way - make lemonAIDS.
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My parents taught my sister and me the importance of giving back and making a difference in another person's life.
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I want to be on a show that's not sensitive to racial jokes; I want to be on one where they call me everything and I call them right back. There's blatant racism going both ways. That's what we need.
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Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me.
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You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on.
