Chris Van Allsburg Quotes
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Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
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I will come to know when my time's up, and when it is, I will exit gracefully. I will not hang around till I am kicked out.
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Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
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The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.
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My human rights activism has been widely met with encouragement and support. Ahangarani should earn plaudits, not only for her cinematic achievements, but also for her humanitarian deeds and her commitment to increased rights and freedoms for all.
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I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it.
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Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.
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I have always been infatuated with country music.
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The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.
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Warnings about children being overscheduled, racing from one enriching activity to the next, first surfaced in the early 20th century.
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When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.
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We haven't seen the turning point yet, but we're sticking to our bottom line, for the environment and the health of the country.
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When children and youth are deprived of their right to education, their community is deprived of a sustainable future. It is all the more true with refugees.
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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
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Henceforward I am the truth's. Be it known unto you that henceforward I obey no law less than the eternal law. I will have no covenants but proximities.
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Go ahead and believe in God, if you like, but don't imagine that you have been given any grounds for such a belief by science.
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Kein Mensch kann sich selbst je verstehen, denn dazu müßte er aus sich selbst herausgehen, dazu müßte das Subjekt des Erkennens und Wollens Objekt werden können: ganz wie, um das Universum zu verstehen, ein Standpunkt noch außerhalb des Universums erforderlich wäre.
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The business of finding a nation's soul is a long and slow one at the best and a great many prophets must be slain in the course of it. Perhaps when we have slain enough prophets future generations will begin to build their tombs.
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The comparison here implied between the actions of one of the higher animals and of one so low in the scale as an earth-worm, may appear far-fetched; for we thus attribute to the worm attention and some mental power, nevertheless I can see no reason to doubt the justice of the comparison.
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I will not be conflicted. Period. I commit that to you all.
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Australia turns out to be a sensational place, albeit one of the most comfortably racist places I've ever been in. They've really settled into their intolerance like an old resentful slipper.
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Is there enough to go around? What is enough? Who can tell us? Certainly not the economist who pursues economic growth as the highest of all values, and therefore has no concept of enough.
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I like being with the quarterbacks. I like calling the plays.
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I'm not a perfectionist. I'm just very observant.
