Arthur Erickson Quotes

We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.

Arthur Erickson

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• Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • People
  • Job
  • Serious

• God doesn't know things. He is things.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • God
  • Know
  • Things

• Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Interesting
  • Always
  • Reveal

• You can't hit what you can't see.

  

  Walter Johnson
  • You
  • See
  • Hit

• I can memorise lines quickly. Knowing Telugu now has helped improve my performance.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Now
  • Performance
  • Improve

• The odds of having films made which star women... Everyone still references one movie: 'Bridesmaids!'

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Women
  • Movie
  • Star

• I have always been terrified of the death of my parents. I never knew if I could count on myself. I never knew if that would send me over the edge.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • Death
  • Parents
  • Myself

• I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on the guitar and pulling off strings and doing all this weird stuff that no one had ever done before.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Done
  • Weird
  • Doing

• Writers have told me more than once that I'm a better interview in defeat than in victory, which is a compliment I am extremely proud of.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Victory
  • Defeat
  • Compliment

• One ought to begin an analysis of power from the ground up, at the level of tiny local events where battles are unwittingly enacted by players who don't know what they are doing.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Up
  • Power
  • Know

• So often, women are there just to be looked at and be objectified for the titillation of the male audience.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Women
  • Audience
  • Often

• Some heat, some spice and plenty of citrus are the building blocks of many North African fish dishes.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Building
  • Fish
  • Heat

• I'm a late-night guy.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Guy
  • Night
  • Late Night

• I think nowadays it's so easy as an athlete to become a statistic whether or not you lose everything or having trouble or whatever it may be.

  

  Venus Williams
  • May
  • Think
  • Easy

• Europe has the technology, the strategic and economic might to defend itself.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Technology
  • Economic
  • Europe

• Je weiter ich lebe, desto nötiger scheint es mir, auszuhalten, das ganze Diktat des Daseins bis zum Schluss nachzuschreiben; denn es möchte sein, dass erst der letzte Satz jenes kleine, vielleicht unscheinbare Wort enthält, durch welches alles mühsam Erlernte und Unbegriffene sich gegen einen herrlichen Sinn hinüberkehrt.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke

• This disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and powerful, and to despise or, at least, neglect persons of poor and mean conditions, though necessary both to establish and to maintain the distinction of ranks and the order of society, is, at the same time, the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Time
  • Great
  • Society

• The Jugglers store patterns, but they seldom show any sign of comprehending actual content. We’re dealing with a mindless biological archiving system, a museum without a curator.

  

  Alastair Reynolds

• People accept their limitations so as to prevent themselves from wanting anything they might get.

  

  Celia Green
  • Anything
  • Accept
  • Get

• Because the pop industry is cruel, if you don't do everything the label wants you to do, it has an army of other people waiting to do it.

  

  Rick Astley
  • People
  • Waiting
  • Army

• I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Love
  • Want
  • Reading

• I want to have bosses around me, 'cause at the end of the day, 10 years from now, 20 years from now, you want to make relationships to keep 'em, you know what I'm saying. So I make my relationships to keep 'em - all my relationships - not try to burn bridges that you may need to cross over one day.

  

  Future
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• We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.

  

  Arthur Erickson