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.
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Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.
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You can't hit what you can't see.
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I can memorise lines quickly. Knowing Telugu now has helped improve my performance.
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The odds of having films made which star women... Everyone still references one movie: 'Bridesmaids!'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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So often, women are there just to be looked at and be objectified for the titillation of the male audience.
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Some heat, some spice and plenty of citrus are the building blocks of many North African fish dishes.
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I'm a late-night guy.
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Europe has the technology, the strategic and economic might to defend itself.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Many people are allergic to process and structure because it causes traumatic flashbacks of working at BigCo and suffering through bureaucracy for bureaucracy's sake.
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In these difficult financial times for so many of our districts, as our local leaders strive to balance their budgets by cutting services, we would be irresponsible not to invest in the arts.
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The curse of Scottish literature is the lack of a whole language, which finally means the lack of a whole mind.
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The right question to ask from a Darwinian prospective is what was it about bipedalism that was so advantageous? Why did it lead to a - why did that adaptation ultimately lead to a species Homo sapiens that has come to dominate the planet today with six and a half billion people?
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I can't just make a song people can dance in a club to... it still has to be real.
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I just hope Americans come to understand that food isn't something to be manipulated by our teeth and shoved down our gullet, that it's our spiritual and physical nourishment and important to our well-being as a nation.
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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.
