Arne Glimcher Quotes
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I have to tell you, I'm proudest of my life off the court. There will always be great basketball players who bounce that little round ball, but my proudest moments are affecting people's lives, effecting change, being a role model in the community.
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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I like things simple.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
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By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.
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It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it's going to be, 'Storyteller.'
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We have to be careful not to look for confidence in the acceptance of others because true confidence only comes from knowing God.
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We are not communists.
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And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake.
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I grew up in a farm in South Africa and I was scouted there and they sent me to Europe. It's kind of been blessed, since then it happened all so fast.
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'I’ll tell you,' she said softly. 'But you won’t like it.'He looked away from her. 'I asked for the truth. Whether I like it or not, I have to know.'
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Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
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Out there in the spotlight you're a million miles away.Every ounce of energy you try to give away.As the sweat pours out your body like the music that you play.Later in the evening, as you lie awake in bed.With the echoes from the amplifiers ringin' in your head.You smoke the day's last cigarette, rememberin' what she said.
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When the woman showed her love for the children that were not her own, and wept over them, I saw in her the living God, and understood What men live by.
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Sculptured figures which appear in motion, will, in their standing position, actually look as if they were falling forward.
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We are going to mint new astronauts from all communities. We want to influence public policy and opinion... by changing the mindset.
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We can move water easily with plastic pipes. We can move shade around with nursery cloth like a tinker toy for animals and plants. Yet we have developed this necessity to grow food with chemical fertiliser because we have forgotten the magic of manure.
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I don't really like hospitals that much. People are sick; sometimes it can be depressing. There's people going through a lot of pain in there. It has that funny smell.
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They can't find my house now because I keep it very quiet where I live.
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The weight is just a tool. Do you focus on the hammer or the nail? You better focus on the thing you're trying to hit.
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I had a chance to go on the Supreme Court of the United States, and my whole family was more disappointed in my deciding not to do that than in my deciding not to run for president - much more.
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I was lucky to have parents who loved me.
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I've always been in love with the movies. They're the dreams of the 20th Century.
