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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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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I can be a nice person, but if someone is messing with someone I care about, the tougher side comes out a little more.
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I just love a challenge, and always have, and will do anything to make it interesting. I'll try anything, really, as long as it's a challenge and you can have some fun doing it.
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Were a man to live as long as Methuselah, and to spend all his days in the highest delights sin can offer, one hour of the anguish and tribulation that must follow, would far outweigh them.
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Natural, hell! What was it Chaucer Said once about the long toil that goes like blood to the poems making? Leave it to nature and the verse sprawls, Limp as bindweed, if it break at all Life's iron crust Man, you must sweat And rhyme your guts taut, if you'd build Your verse a ladder.
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I would like my kids to follow their bliss.
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Oh, I have walked in Kansas Through many a harvest field, And piled the sheaves of glory there And down the wild rows reeled: Each sheaf a little yellow sun, A heap of hot-rayed gold; Each binder like Creation's hand To mold suns, as of old.
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Apparently, myths become truths if upheld long enough.
