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Quotes by Cartoonist
"Most TV shows don't reward you for paying attention."
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"Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner."
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"God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die."
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"We couldn't be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down our economic productivity, off they go. We have a place for them, the psychiatric institution. That's the main thing, they slow things down."
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"Just to see him come on the stage was an event. They had very high risers, and back a little bit, so he'd walk around behind the risers and right across the front of the stage to the podium, remember?"
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"Yeah, yeah. I, I don't think I'm always right. But I don't think young people are always right, either."
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"If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life."
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"Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation."
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"Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real."
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"My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up."
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"Immortality - a fate worse than death."
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"Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing."
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"What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong."
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"I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained."
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"Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget."
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"Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood."
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"Everybody doesn't have to get every joke. People really appreciate not being condescended to."
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"All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them."
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"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."
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"Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate."
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"The most profound statements are often said in silence."
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"I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it."
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"Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away."
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"There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives."
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"I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie."
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"When I was a teenager, 'Playboy' was the most interesting magazine in the world, and not just for the playmates. I liked the interviews and the stories, and all that, but nowadays most of the stuff in there doesn't interest me."
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"Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it."
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"I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself."
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"He was making all kinds of sounds apparently with his mouth, and shaking his head and I thought, gosh, is he trying to stop the orchestra? Is it all wrong? It was just unbelievable."
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"It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things."
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"We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us."
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"Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money."
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"I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they're going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them."
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"Why the hell can't people just write nice happy stories about people having happy sex? That's what I want, and I bet a whole bunch of other people want it too."
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"That's the thing. in medicine, you're used to saying there's a problem within the person, and saying there's a problem within the culture, that's not a medical answer. Medicine has to look in one direction, so there's only one type of answer that they can find."
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"Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made."
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"And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine."
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"If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles."
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"It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept."
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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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"But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father."
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