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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• 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

• I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • People
  • Truth
  • History

• 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

• When I jump into something, I really do it to the fullest extent that my time and energy will allow me. I'm from Texas, and to see so many people that are obese and with disorders that are preventable. They haven't been shown or told. I'm really passionate about making sure my fellow countrymen are healthy. It's a shame.

  

  Mehcad Brooks
  • People
  • Time
  • Energy

• Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information.

  

  Paulo Freire
  • Education

• No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle.

  

  Dee Dee Myers
  • People
  • Family
  • American

• 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