Eric Chaisson Quotes
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The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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I'm a television junkie.
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Domestic goddesses have infiltrated everybody's lives and raised the bar way too high.
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I think people try so hard to learn everything that they miss all the wonderful essentials. There is so much mystery in life that you should leave a mystery.
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It was the Cosby issue that made me realize how much I really cared about women's issues and how much I realize it's important for me to be an advocate for issues that aren't necessarily my own, to be an ally for issues.
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The thing about art for me is that you can go on theorising your work forever, because it's open to interpretation.
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It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.
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If a woman is super-successful, she is called a psychopath.
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I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptures with my deep emotion hidden in my life.
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The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing - to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from - my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.
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Given the profits he and Pharaoh must have made, one might call Joseph the first international arbitrageur.
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Take this as a gift from a crone to a maiden, and know there is not so much difference between the two. For even a tottering granddam keeps a portion of girlish heart, and the youngest maiden a thread of old woman’s wisdom.
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Parallels between classical and pop are not new. The whole San Francisco movement of John Cage and Terry Riley went hand in glove with what the Velvet Underground were doing.
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Wherever moral ambition exists, there right exists. And moral ambition itself must be presumed present in subconsciousness, even when the conscious self seems to reject it, so long as society has resources for bringing it into action; in much the same way that the life-saver presumes life to exist in the drowned man until he has exhausted his resources for recovering respiration.
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If you only think about yourself - how much money can I make, what can I buy, how nice is my house, what kind of fancy car do I have? - over the long term, I think, you get bored. I think your life becomes diminished. The way to live a full life is to think: What can I do for others?
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I used to play quite a good lead guitar, R&B style. Clapton and BB King are heroes.
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American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.
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I had a lot of fun creating some restaurants with a casual note to it, such as DBGB, for example, where it was about bangers and beers, being a very casual brasserie with very affordable food but very interesting homemade program.
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Apparently, myths become truths if upheld long enough.
