Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. Quotes
I wasn't the greatest reporter in the world, but I wasn't starting at zero.
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I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's an A-movie in terms of my approach, my crew, my actors, my ethics and so on. I guess that's my trademark or one of them, anyway!
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Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.
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Social change isn't something you should do just to help pad a resume. Follow your passion.
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I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook and talk.
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This is my homeland no one can kick me out.
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At the age of seventeen, I left school. I went to university, and I wrote my first attempts at poetry in a room in a flat at the edge of the city.
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After '45, Ben Gurion started to organize the Zionist movement and the conference in Baltimore. At this convention, they decided that the helm of the Zionist movement has to be a Jewish commonwealth... a Jewish commonwealth!
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Playing in front of people is a lot different from playing in your room.
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I always challenge myself. I get out in deep water and I always try to get back. But I get hung up. The audience never knows, but that's when I smile the most, when I show the most ivory.
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Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
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I was raised vegan. My mom would always make quinoa with squash and kale, hippie stuff like that. Now I eat meat, but I try to be conscious about where it's coming from.
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For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
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You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree.
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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
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Our sense of the tragic waxes and wanes with our sensuality.
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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You teach your kids about your beliefs and tell them what you think is right and the conclusions that you've come to from living in the world, and then they can make their own decisions.
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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.
