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"I say, if you believe what you read in the comic strips, then you believe that mice run around with little gold buttons on their red pants and drive cars."
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"You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful."
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"I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch."
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"Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity."
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"I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water."
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"Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing."
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"Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired."
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"The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at."
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"Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths."
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"A gold book, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in the northern part of the state of New York, and along with the book an enormous pair of gold spectacles!"
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"Heck, gold medals, what can you do with them?"
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"I took Beetle home thinking that after the Korean War was over, I would have to take him out of the Army. I thought, well, what am I going to do with him?"
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"I say, if you believe what you read in the comic strips, then you believe that mice run around with little gold buttons on their red pants and drive cars."
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"I was kicked out of The Stars And Stripes twice, and finally got back in."
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"At one time Tribune Syndicate emptied out their storeroom. They put tables full of original cartoons down in the lobby and said take one if you want one. The comics were simply a burden to them."
Time
"Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart."
Heart
"When the war was over and the guys were back to shaving every day, the editor thought the Beetle Bailey strips were hurting their disciplinary efforts to get the guys back to routine."
War
"When I introduced a black soldier, Lt. Flap, in 1971, the Stars and Stripes banned the strip. They were having racial problems and thought it would increase the tensions."
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"The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived."
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"Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did."
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"You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper."
Time
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