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Quotes by Cartoonist
"Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget."
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"What's much harder is taking on people in your own community."
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"I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts."
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"Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about."
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"Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else."
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"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk."
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"Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog."
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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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"My brother was a great audience, and if he liked the picture, he would laugh and laugh and laugh, and he would want to keep the picture. Making people laugh with an image I had created... what power that was!"
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"My impression was, he's walking as though he's made of glass, and if you should touch him he would just shatter apart. I don't know if it was an act or what, but it sure was effective."
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"The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it."
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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're not very accepting of people who act strangely."
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"I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me."
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"Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results."
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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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"Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush."
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"I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other."
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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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"The writers led by Mike Scully are fantastic. And they're creating original stories that not only don't repeat what we've already done, they also don't repeat anything I've seen on television."
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"I know it sounds crazy, but I have had far more connection with my parents after their deaths."
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"When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy, she's thriving, she's full of self-confidence. I tell her she's beautiful every day before I send her off to school."
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"I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow."
Men,
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"I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people bother to write if they hate what I do?"
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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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"A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!"
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"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."
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"Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion."
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"Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully."
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"I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father."
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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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"There I was limited to what happened the same way I am with Riel. It doesn't feel like a great burden to have your story, to some degree, set. I am enjoying figuring out what I think is the most dramatic way of telling this set of historical facts."
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"I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse."
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"Most TV shows don't reward you for paying attention."
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"Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it."
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"Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated."
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"But even though all this was going on at home, if someone had tried to take me away and put me in a children's home, I couldn't have handled it. Even though my mother was very brutal, it was my home."
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"When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling."
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"Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow."
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"And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me."
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"But I couldn't draw as fast as she requested. Thus, I tried to create the worst abomination of a comic that I could, so as to make her not want comics anymore. That abomination, my friends, was Happy Noodle Boy."
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