Arthur Erickson Quotes
The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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Being a celebrity is a business.
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Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
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The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.
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So if I think of something in my head I don't have to do it. If I can't do I don't do it, I do something else.
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In the vast archipelago of the east, where Borneo and Java and Sumatra lie, and the Molucca Islands, and the Philippines, the sea is often fanned only by the land and sea breezes, and is like a smooth bed, on which these islands seem to sleep in bliss,--islands in which the spice and perfume gardens of the world are embowered, and where the bird of paradise has its home, and the golden pheasant, and a hundred others of brilliant plumage, whose flight is among thickets so luxuriant, and scenery so picturesque, that European strangers find there the fairy land of their youthful dreams.
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The universe of mortgage lending has gotten to the point where there is a place in it for everybody.
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I always say I'm Catholic - but a cultural Catholic. I wouldn't say I'm a spiritual person, although I pray every day.
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The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.
