Chris Van Allsburg Quotes
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Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
Quintilian -
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.
Samantha Ruth Prabhu -
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
Nancy Astor -
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.
Vikas Swarup -
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.
Nazanin Boniadi -
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.
Daniel Dae Kim
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Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.
R. L. Stine -
I have always been infatuated with country music.
R. Kelly -
The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.
Carl Lewis -
Warnings about children being overscheduled, racing from one enriching activity to the next, first surfaced in the early 20th century.
Carl Honore -
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.
Vera Wang -
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.
Forest Whitaker
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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
Barbara Kingsolver -
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.
Daniel Dennett -
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.
Otto Weininger -
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.
Ralph Vaughan Williams -
Threats alone are the weapons of the threatened man.
Leonardo da Vinci -
From an unknown land and through distant skies came a winged warrior. Nothing remained sacred, no one is safe from the Hellion as it uttered it's battle cry... Screaming for vengeance.
Rob Halford Judas Priest
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I knew William Burroughs really well, and I was always star struck being around him. I adored him.
Patti Smith -
Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior.
J. J. Abrams -
I cannot show remorse because I do not believe I am guilty.
Lyn Nofziger -
Crime requires further crime to conceal it.
Seneca the Younger -
I'm not a perfectionist. I'm just very observant.
Chris Van Allsburg