Chris Van Allsburg Quotes
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I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It's probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that's how I feel.
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I do not believe we can effectively move Australia to a lower emission economy, which is what we need to do if we're going to make a contribution to a global reduction in greenhouse gases, without putting a price on carbon.
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I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
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There are no rules to writing a song.
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I'm not an angry kind of person. What I am is a principled person.
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It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.
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The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in a neighborhood that was on the verge of becoming a ghetto. I had just been fired from a good job as a cartographer in a design studio where I had worked for about four months.
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Great acts are made up of small deeds.
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I do like to turn a phrase, but it's all about how you turn it.
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I go on and off home-school and regular school, but the kids don't treat me any differently because they've all known me forever.
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In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country. … In Iran we do not have this phenomenon. I don't know who's told you that we have this.
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While the man is born to do whatever he can, for the woman and the negro there is no such privilege.
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Nazism (national Socialism) and communism (international socialism) were but two sides of the same coin.
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As competitive as I am, I want to get the best of a play and make sure to use it's full potential even when things break down. But sometimes you need to just say 'uncle' and let it go and avoid a hit.
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But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither words nor place that can advance them, but worth and merit.
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I'm a fair manager, put it that way. I like to be fair with the players, but there's a time for discipline.
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I think I'm going to put together a compilation under Disney's name of my songs that I've done for them - because I've done six or seven by now! The latest was for the Princess Diaries 2 soundtrack. So that's the next thing that's coming out.
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I'm not going to just fade out, I know.
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We should govern our actions by assuming that people are more good than bad. Whereas, most of our social policies dictate that people are more bad than good. That you know if you do something, it'll be seized by the rich to exploit the poor.
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I'll never forget the first concert I basically went to. Actually, Sonny and Cher was my first concert, but U2 was my first real concert. I was 17 and saw them at JFK Stadium and had really crappy seats.
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Golf is flexibility, and I notice more guys injured. You can overdo this conditioning.
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It's easy for me to see how a business proposition is going to play out, or who our next-generation competitors are, from taking this data point from this customer and another data point from another customer... and jump to Z.
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I'm sensitive to the things I see.
