Vartan Gregorian Quotes

It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.

Vartan Gregorian

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• Learning
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• The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Remember
  • Artist
  • Young

• When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Up
  • Me
  • Games

• I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Doing

• When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Impossible
  • Task

• There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Magazines
  • Collecting
  • Shift

• For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Weapons
  • Nuclear Weapons

• When people asked me what I was going to do when I grow up, I always said, 'I'm going to be a writer. I'm going to write screenplays. I'm going to write books. I'm going to write plays. That's what I'm going to do.'

  

  Mara Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Grow

• The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Evil
  • Spirit
  • Europe

• I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.

  

  Beck Bennett
  • Up
  • Great
  • Because

• The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Know
  • Kind
  • Credit

• When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Think
  • Alike

• I wish I sang better.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Wish
  • Better
  • I Wish

• Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Death

• Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Study

• If we really want to cherish religious freedom, people who want to believe that same-sex marriage should take place, they have a right to believe that, and people who want to believe it's inappropriate, we should not demonize those people - if we really believe in religious liberty.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Believe
  • Freedom

• In this business, it's important to constantly do things that you don't know how to do. I love touring and making records, but I've learned how to do that, so sometimes you just have to dive in and try it.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Important
  • Business
  • Know

• I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.

  

  Irvin Kershner
  • Many
  • Did
  • Follower

• I'm not a proper traveler. I don't like to be challenged or have too much of a change and prefer a week away just to relax.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Change
  • Week
  • Relax

• Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.

  

  Jane Harrison
  • Life
  • Learning
  • Marriage

• We have a responsibility to ensure that every individual has the opportunity to receive a high-quality education, from prekindergarten to elementary and secondary, to special education, to technical and higher education and beyond.

  

  Jim Jeffords
  • High
  • Opportunity
  • Education

• The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Truth
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• Internet friends are real friends

  

  Wilson Rawls
  • Real

• Enjoy life, because life is phenomenal! It's a magnificent trip!

  

  Bob Proctor
  • Life is
  • Trip
  • Enjoy Life

• It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.

  

  Vartan Gregorian
  • Hope
  • Society
  • Education