Arthur Erickson Quotes
There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications.
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I made my first movie when I was five.
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If I want to speculate wildly about the future, I have my science fiction. Anybody who tells you they can predict the future is either crazy or lying.
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I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
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I don't think of myself as a gearhead or a motorcyclist. I'm not that young, and this is like another life of mine. But the people I know from that era think of me that way.
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I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small town, so I hardly ever saw him.
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I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet. There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about. I would love to check out the bottom of the ocean to see what's going on down there.
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When I look back, I can say that the summer when I was 19 was a formative time for me. But at the time I just thought I was making tofu every night for dinner and going to work.
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Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn't dream of interrupting you at golf.
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A State can sue for negligence as well as fraud damages.
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'Some,' answered Imlac, 'have indeed said that the soul is material, but I can scarcely believe that any man has thought it, who knew how to think; for all the conclusions of reason enforce the immateriality of mind, and all the notices of sense and investigations of science, concur to prove the unconsciousness of matter.
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It is preposterous to suppose that the people of one generation can lay down the best and only rules of government for all who are to come after them, and under unforeseen contingencies.
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I am not the kind of girlWho should be rudely bargin' in on a white veil occasion.But you are not the kind of boyWho should be marrying the wrong girl.
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'This short watch that is about to come, or rather these two short watches-why are they called dog watches? Where, heu, heu, is the canine connection?'
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You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.
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When my mother died, my father's early widowhood gave him social cachet he would not have had if they had divorced. He was a bigger catch for the sorrow attached.
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We've seen the hubris. And now we're seeing the scandals.
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Growing up, I was obsessed with Leonardo DiCaprio.
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The outside world is black and white with only one color dead.
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The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.
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His conscience must have gotten tired of nagging him and delivered an ultimatum.
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For the last 16 years, temperatures have been going down and the carbon dioxide has been going up and the crops have got greener and grow quicker. We've done plenty to smash up the planet, but there's been no global warming caused by man.
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Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
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There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications.
