Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. Quotes
If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you aren't trying hard enough.
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A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.
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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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For me personally, I just try to prove myself in my work. I'm just trying to get better at what I do, and hopefully that will impact women in music, and hopefully the girls in the crowd will see my up there as a bandleader and think, 'Wow, maybe I can do that one day.'
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I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.
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I love the fact that, one time, my face was on the back of a cereal box - probably 3-CPO's - and it was a mask where you cut out the eye holes and put a string through the side. It makes me feel like I'm 11 years old all over again.
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I acted out a lot. I was very nerdy. I was very isolated, which I made up for by kind of talking and trying to entertain people and get them to like me, so I did theatre and improv in high school and college, but always as a hobby.
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If a man is both wise and lucky, he will not make the same mistake twice. But he will make any one of ten thousand brothers or cousins of the original.
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We do have a distorted view of our fantasies in society, but that's because we don't talk about them enough.
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If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you aren't trying hard enough.
