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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No one cares about the Davis Cup. How many people know I won five Davis Cups and seven majors, but that I rarely played the Australian Open?
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I am in love with all the characters I have played. And it is impossible to choose the best.
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I'd love to do acting, but it'd definitely have to be comedy. I can't do serious. It's completely beyond me.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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The reason that fish form schools, birds form flocks, and bees form swarms is that they are smarter together than they would be apart. They don't take a vote; they don't take a poll: they form a system. They are all interactive and make a decision together in real time.
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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.
