Chad VanGaalen Quotes
I just love visual art because I don't have to turn anything on, or make sure my compressors are working and the microphones are set up. I just kind of take the cap off my pen, and if it runs out I throw it in the recycling bin and grab another pen.
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The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.
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I am a pretty level-headed person, but that person, Harry Reid, has been the most destructive entity in Washington when it comes to civility. By far.
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In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time when I'm not writing I start thinking I can't do it.
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You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
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A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.
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I grew up reading 19th-century novels and late Victorian children's books, so I try for a good story full of coincidence and error, landscape and weather. However, the world was radically changed during my lifetime, and I tell of that battering as best I can.
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I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.
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Sometimes art is ahead of revolution.
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He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say 'when!'
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Every year, I say the Seahawks are going to win the Super Bowl. There's no doubt in my mind every single year. And you have to keep in mind this was well before the Seahawks were good. This was, like, 2-14, drafting-Rick-Mirer Seahawks. I would still be saying they were going to win the Super Bowl.
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Sometimes I get very dressed up just to go to the corner for some bread; I dress for my own amusement.
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The Indian business has largely grown on the back of exports. The domestic markets, as far as our Indian business is concerned, actually have contracted because of the contraction in the medium and heavy commercial vehicle space.
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People say that globalisation has negative aspects, but I don't believe globalisation is bad. It's criticised from a western perspective, but if you put yourself in the shoes of people in the developing world, it provides an unprecedented opportunity.
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Surviving is the only glory in war.
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I do tend to overdo everything.
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Lunch was my favorite part at school.
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When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.
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There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
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Hope is the most treacherous thing in the world. It lifts you and lets you plummet. But as long as you're being lifted you don't worry about plummeting.
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Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can.
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Who are your heroes? Why do you look up to them? Why do we respect those who live and think for themselves as opposed to doing what is expected? We all admire the idea of living a life unbound by thoughts of fear. People who seem to live that dream inspire us to want to do the same. They mirror the qualities that we possess but are too scared to access.
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You can love me or hate me and disagree with me, but you sure as hell know where I stand.
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I just love visual art because I don't have to turn anything on, or make sure my compressors are working and the microphones are set up. I just kind of take the cap off my pen, and if it runs out I throw it in the recycling bin and grab another pen.
