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Quotes by Cartoonist
"If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done."
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"I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it."
Life,
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"Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man."
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"Animal welfare issues have always been important to me."
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"On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet."
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"We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public."
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"All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable."
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"Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor."
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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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"Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals."
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"And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine."
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"I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent."
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"Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?"
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"I try not to change my political point of view from paper to paper."
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"We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year."
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"There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed and blissfully unaware."
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"It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become."
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"For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination."
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"Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems."
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"But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu."
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"What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter."
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"You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go."
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"I went over to say hi to Rob and he introduced me to Wayne and Fred. I had made a radical purchase of some brown Beatle boots. Wayne was like 'Where did you get those boots! Who is this guy?"
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"Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery."
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"I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character."
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"I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste."
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"I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time."
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"But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before."
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"Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books."
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"A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself."
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"I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me."
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"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."
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"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island."
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"There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker."
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"Why does this person who is sitting behind a desk and never watches cartoons is arguing about what cartoons should be like. Its so creepy realizing that this person is a lunatic."
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"Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend."
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"One of the things I would like to do is make up stories that I would have enjoyed when I was a kid. So, if I'm thinking about an audience, it's usually a younger version of myself."
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"When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression."
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"The director is planning on titling the film 'Yummy Fur' so we are probably planning on changing the title of the book to 'Yummy Fur' to match the film."
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"We start out talking about the story, trying to figure out who is who and what should happen, taking notes the whole time. Then I do a rough layout of the issue, showing what happens on each page. Then we discuss that some more."
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"Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity."
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"Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes."
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"Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary."
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"I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society."
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