Arthur Erickson Quotes
Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.
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Every frame of a Coen brothers movie is filled with history and meaning, and the deeper you go, the deeper you get. That's why their movies stand up particularly well to repeated viewing and investigation.
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I'll watch CNN in the mornings to catch up on what's going on. On the weekends, I get the Sunday edition of 'The New York Times.'
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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I don't care about revenues.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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My family weren't actors, and we didn't know any actors. It wasn't even something I was aware you could do as a job. I thought you had to be a Redgrave or a Barrymore before you were allowed to go to drama school.
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There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.
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When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm pals.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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Business today consists in persuading crowds.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
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Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.
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I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.
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When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.
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Overwhelmed by the miraculous potentialities of the machine, our human greed has interfered with the biological cycle of human companionship which keeps the life of a community healthy.
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The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of disappointment and loss. But, if we are to live in the real world, discard it we must.
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As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.
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If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.
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Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.
