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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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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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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As a civilian not playing sport, to get that sense of real belonging and feeling how you are progressing through the day is what I loved and miss.
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There definitely is that element of guys who like to party and have a good time and... putting off for as long as possible the idea that they'll actually have to settle down.
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I love chocolate, but it's bad.
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I just realized, sometime early on in college, that I wanted to be a philosopher. I basically decided that I wanted to spend my life thinking as deeply and carefully and reflectively as I could about the nature of reality and our human engagement with it, and that taking a philosophical approach was the best way to go about doing this.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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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.
