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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Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.
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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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The road system that we've come to depend on, the road system that we built our wealth on and our power on, is falling apart.
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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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This is my advice to entrepreneurs. It's easy to give up, but believe in your ideas. Surround yourself with people you respect and are smarter than you.
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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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I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement.
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I didn't act in Israel, but I wrote plays at home and acted in plays at school. I tried to get an agent when I was 12, but they told me that I had too much of an accent.
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I feel like I'm waving the flag for musicianship, trying to bring back bands that can play.
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I had to wonder whether it was possible that this wasn’t already decided for me, and if maybe, just maybe, this was my one last chance to try and prove it. There was no way to know. There never is. But I reached out and took it anyway.
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If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you aren't trying hard enough.
