Dale Chihuly Quotes
I'm an artist, a designer, a craftsman, interior designer, half-architect. There's no one name that fits me very well.
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My abuela was an incredible cook.
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It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can see the bright side of having a child with Down syndrome and still find the time and energy to govern the state of Alaska.
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I'm brilliant at cooking my stepmother's scrambled egg recipe. The secret is to put eggs, butter, milk, and seasoning together in the saucepan, and to keep stirring with a wooden spoon under a low heat until the preferred consistency is reached.
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My real name is Amethyst. It sounds like a stage name. My mom is kind of crazy.
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The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
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When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
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We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
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Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.
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I lived in South Africa until I was 11 when we first immigrated. My mom had sent me back there when I was 14 for summer vacation. I wasn't doing very well in school, my grades were slipping. I called my mom one day and told her that I wasn't coming back. I ended up staying there until I was 17 before coming back to North America.
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If you're a Republican woman, you're mostly on your own when it comes to support from traditional women's groups.
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I actually did go through severe depression and anxiety attacks where I couldn't sleep for weeks. It was definitely several months of being not myself.
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I've found that it's actually more of a disability to be tall than short. I have no problem fitting into plane toilets etc, and the adaptations made for wheelchair users - such as the lowering of bank machines - work for me as well.
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Learning should be engaging. Testing should not be the be all and end all. All students should have a broad curriculum that includes the arts and enrichment. Students should have opportunities to work in teams and engage in project-based learning. And student and family well-being should be front and center.
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I think I was the only kid on the block who knew about furniture scale by the time I was 8.
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I want to score in every game and win things. That's the most important thing.
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When I joined WKRC, they were very concerned over my ability to ad lib or speak extemporaneously, which was an unknown factor up until that point.
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I like to write about painting because I think visually. I see my writing as blocks of color before it forms itself. I think I also care about painting because I'm not musical. Painting to me is not a metaphor for writing, but something people do that can never be reduced to words.
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We absolutely need to reform the Congressional budget-writing process.
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We have to be respectful to one another.
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People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the beauty of nature, quiet, tranquillity, peace, joy, hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast.
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I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.
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I'm an artist, a designer, a craftsman, interior designer, half-architect. There's no one name that fits me very well.
