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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Helplessness becomes prayer the moment that you go to Jesus and speak candidly and confidently with him about your needs. This is to believe.
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That's the most important thing for me in TV, telling the story to as many people as we can.
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I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.
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I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an architect and my mother was a teacher of art history, so it was sort of intellectual, and maybe a bit much for me when I was a child.
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Moral values includes the immorality of 45 million uninsured or the immorality of working people who are having trouble raising a family despite working full-time. That has to be part of the moral equation. And if we are able to frame things in that fashion, then I think we can be successful.
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Apparently, myths become truths if upheld long enough.
