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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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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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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I start to lose my mind if I'm not working on something, like breaking my back on something.
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On my view there is no net benefit to coming into existence and thus coming into existence is never worth its costs.
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In the absence of an answer that is complicated and sort of maybe troubling, we sometimes settle for the easy answer. It's easier to believe that my discomfort comes from some fact that is being hidden from me.
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Once I could drive, I spent all my time in the city going to metal shows. I missed the first couple of Metallica shows because I was lame. By the time I got into them, they were playing places like the Kabuki.
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As long as I breathe, I attack.
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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.
