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Chris Van Allsburg Quotes

I've heard stories about authors filled with this kind of Lotto-winner hubris. I'm a Dutch boy from the Midwest. We don't have hubris.

Chris Van Allsburg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: June 18, 1949

Topics

Kind Boy Hubris Midwest Stories

The world is now awash in data and we can see consumers in a lot clearer ways.

World Data Now See Consumers Ways

I'm the person who wouldn't send back my food even if I got steak when I'd ordered fish.

Food Fish Back Person Steak Got

Like any young person, I do what I want.

Anna Kournikova

Person Young Want Like Any

I say we have not even had the decency to maintain the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us - our roads, our bridges, our wastewater systems, our sewer systems; by the way, those weren't Bolsheviks, those weren't socialists that built those things for us - much less build the infrastructure we need for the 21st century.

Roads Parents Bridges Say Build Way

Statistics on religious affiliation are notoriously slippery: the government isn't allowed to gather such data, and the membership claims of religious organizations aren't entirely reliable.

Stephen J. Dubner

Government Data Statistics Reliable

I'm enamored with the art world.

Art World Art World Enamored

My poor children have been the subject of all of my experiments. We're still doing what I call 'Amish summers' where I turn off all electronics and pack away all their computers and stuff and watch them scream for a while until they settle down into, like, an electronic-free summer.

Children Computers Doing Down Summer

If London is the Emerald City, then Los Angeles is what exists at the other end of the yellow brick road.

Yellow City Road End Brick London

My goal in life was to host the MTV Awards, because it's the awards show that Prince sang on, and that was the awards show that Eddie Murphy hosted and Arsenio hosted.

Life Goal Awards Because Show Host

The question is, why are we doing so well? The answer is, I try not to think about it too much. I just do what's fun.

Fun Think Doing Too Much Why Try

Growing up in Delhi, India, I did puzzles, explored numbers, and searched for patterns in everyday settings long before I ever saw an equation.

Priyamvada Natarajan

Growing Up Long India Numbers Up

Honor is a gift a man gives himself. You can be as good as anyone that ever lived. If you can read, you can learn everything that anyone ever learned. But you've got to want it.

Good Man Gift Honor Learn You

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