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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With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.
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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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Regardless of how it's done, transaction costs will continue to plummet as computers get more powerful. Low transaction costs are a wonderful thing if you're in the transaction business. They're wonderful for consumers too, making it cheaper and easier to buy things and creating new things to buy.
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In TV films, it's nice to get out of town for six weeks or two months, whatever it is, do your thing, and you're out, ready for the next assignment.
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Stand-up is still my favorite, but the podcast is a close second. It's so fun, and it's given me the opportunity to have three-hour conversations with people I wouldn't have otherwise been able to talk to. When I talked to Maynard Keenan from Tool, I almost couldn't believe it was happening.
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What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
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America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.
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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.
