Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. Quotes
If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you aren't trying hard enough.
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The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
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I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.
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I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.
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I'd like to play Matt Damon's daddy. He's a wonderful actor, I really admire him, and I'd like to play his dad one day.
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'Ponyets! They sent you?' 'Pure chance,' said Ponyets, bitterly, 'or the work of my own personal malevolent demon.'
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My responsibility is to the artist first. There's something that artists intrinsically know about their music and their fanbase that neither the record company nor the producer really knows.
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God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.
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I'm still a, you know, a silly girl... a big kid.
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I don't know how to dance, and I don't have any extra flexible skills.
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I'm not a naturally social-media inclined person. I still prefer phone calls to texts/emails. I... hate texts.
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Politicians use religion, and they get their troops riled up with religion.
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The background - your own history - is way more important than what you can achieve as a professional.
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Whenever I see a Frans Hals, I feel the desire to paint; but when I see a Rembrandt, I want to give it up.
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I was lucky to have parents who loved me.
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The rule was I had to go to college, and I couldn't even go to theater camp.
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My grandmother loved country music, and she's the one who really got me into country music. She had George Strait tapes, a bunch of them. I remember listening to tapes, taking them out, the covers and the back.
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The lies we tell ourselves are the most subtle of all lies.
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There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.
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I played basketball and baseball up until college, yea. Then I lost my discipline and started chasing girls and whatnot.
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So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport its the longterm. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.
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Building your own house is a primal urge, one of those universal genetic drives like the need to provide for your family.
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In one of the scenes [in the Ordinary World], you can see a little cameo of my son, who's in the party. You've just gotta bring it all back home.
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There's loads of eyes and expectations. People are almost waiting for you to make a mistake so they can say, 'Oh, she's a one-hit wonder!'
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If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you aren't trying hard enough.
