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"I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas."
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"If unconventional ideas = sperm, then public opinion = abortion."
"I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation."
"Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today."
"The multiplicity of ideas is what I'm interested in."
"I thought you could beat, pummel, and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds up its paws, turns on its back, fixes its eyes on eternity, and dies."
"Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas."
"If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied."
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"I see the cartoonist as contributing to the content, being critical, because we do poke holes in some of the dialogue and find new ways of seeing things."
"It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace."
"The cartoons which I enjoy have caused some kind of out rage, but they have got people talking about these issues out in the open and in essence that's what its all about."
"We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture - physical, mental or otherwise."
"I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them."
"Mandela once phoned me out of the blue while he was still president, and at first he played with me a bit."
"I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about."
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