Arthur Erickson Quotes
There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.
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I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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My daughter passed away in 2003.
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I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
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My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.
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Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'
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A lot of times, you think you want something, and then you find something completely different.
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I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
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He had the settled expression of a certain kind of peasant-the kind that accepts, with protest but without malice, the vagaries of life. It is the gift life sends to compensate for the lack of a high I.Q.
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My parents were over the moon when I had some success with Christmas songs because that was the time of the year that meant so much to them. They were able to see their loved ones, and it was great to hear their son's voice on the radio while they visited.
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I never sold any of those "lose 10 pounds every week" scams. I've not changed my tune in all these years. I've seen everything pass by me, and I've been offered millions of dollars to put my name on products that were just lies. And I never did it.
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I like dancing but not in crowded clubs. I would rather dance alone than go to a club.
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There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization.
