Chris Van Allsburg Quotes
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In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.
E. L. Doctorow -
I rarely went to the mosque, I never fasted, and I only prayed namaaz on the holy nights because my mom bugged me about it.
Aasif Mandvi -
I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
Walter Cronkite -
What nourishes us at home and in school is what inspires us. When we get awareness and learn about the great potential that we all human beings have, we are able to discover our leadership.
Vicente Fox -
I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.
Tadao Ando
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A man should never neglect his family for business.
Walt Disney -
I think most of the people, once you see a Kiss show, you kinda get spoiled because I don't think there's anybody out there that's doing a bigger or a better show than us.
Ace Frehley Kiss -
My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
You have to be very strong and headstrong to make your place. You have to know how to say no. Patience is very important.
Yami Gautam -
I have some sweets now and then, but I wouldn't say I have a major sweet tooth.
Larry Fitzgerald -
We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that.
Jack Bowman
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I am always watching old films and trying to fill gaps in my knowledge.
Edgar Wright -
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
W. Somerset Maugham -
When we're obsessed with someone, it's never about them. It's about us hating ourselves. And that's generally the tone of a lot of my videos, which is this desperate character who's overcompensating with being super happy. But she's broken.
Rachel Bloom -
Sometimes I'm scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce -
Whatever we may do, excess will always keep its place in the heart of man, in the place where solitude is found. We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.
Albert Camus
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Foot work, hand-eye coordination. There's a lot of things. If you just watch basketball, you can tell where it would help someone who's receiving the ball.
Austin Seferian-Jenkins -
The idea that no one really knew how to run a government led to the idea that we should arrange a system by which new ideas could be developed, tried out, and tossed out if necessary, with more new ideas brought in - a trial and error system.
Richard Feynman -
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks he owes me nothing for it, though it be a debt that gratitude itself can never repay.
Seneca the Younger -
I think it's difficult to forget things that are unresolved.
Chris Van Allsburg