Arthur Erickson Quotes
God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.
Quotes to Explore
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I can't take anything seriously.
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The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.
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I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.
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Junooniyat for love but not necessarily from the romantic perspective. For me, that is for family, that is for my work. For me, both these things are very important, so there is junoon for people I love, which is my family, and my work, which I worship.
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
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My eyelashes are divas, so they will like a mascara brand one week or for a month, and then they'll just stop working for it. I go back and forth between Maybelline and Cover Girl, and then I carry around a primer, too.
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But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.
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Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career.
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You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
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You can not only do great things for an urban core by moving your employee base there, you're also going to be a better business.
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A film of my life would never happen!
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God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
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I wanted to figure out how long to cook things. I did some experiments and then wrote a program using Mathematica to model how heat is transferred through food.
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I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old as human history.
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Our culture highlights the desire to always have more, even when we should be grateful for what we have.
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'You were a Jesuit?''Franciscan. We run a close second in being pains in the ass.'
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But there's one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn't one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.
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Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed. Without personality, the character may do funny or interesting things, but unless people are able to identify themselves with the character, its actions will seem unreal. And without personality, a story cannot ring true to the audience.
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The only two things that scare me are God and the IRS.
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God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.
