Arthur Hays Sulzberger Quotes
Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
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At the lowest cognitive level, they are processes of experiencing, or, to speak more generally, processes of intuiting that grasp the object in the original.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
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Life is like an analogy.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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The Republican Party is the Grand Old Party. It's made enormous contributions to the success of our country. And it is a party that has embraced its leadership role when it has had the majority or the White House.
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Remember, the choices we make today shape the people we become tomorrow.
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I have my hopes, & very distinct ones, too, of one day getting cerebral phenomena such that I can put them into mathematical equations: in short, a law or laws for the mutual actions of the molecules of the brain (equivalent to the law of gravitation for the planetary & sideral world).
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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
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For me, I went from showering at the YMCA in L.A., eating chicken sandwiches and ramen noodles if lucky, and going from couch to couch. I'm a real story. I know the struggle.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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The owners have the right to pay you whatever they want to. They don't have to pay you if they don't want to.
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You know, people come up with formulas who are uncreative. They can't picture something different so they can only go by something that's laid out for them.
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I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own instruments, write their own songs, and sing the music and have a good time doing it.
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I have to give a lot of credit to Sandy Weill, because he gets it. He gets the power of the women's contribution to the economy.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.
