Chester Brown Quotes
I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't.
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When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
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Obviously it's more fun having my teammates there and having all that camaraderie, but individual workouts are not a loss.
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I think I have a passion for playing the game. I love to play, and I want to play at a high level. You have to do the right things in order to continue at that level.
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You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event, and you'll always hold that special, but if you're looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you're able to do.
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Midi is my hobby.
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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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You try to do what you can to bring harmony wherever you go.
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
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Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is.
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I didn't want to do something typical.
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I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.
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Although I come from a family who are Muslim - my mother is Egyptian, my father is Palestinian - my mother only puts a veil on her head when she has a bad hair day.
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If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!
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The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
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A learned man is a tank; a wiser man is a spring.
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My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive. But that's the swish in the work, I think. It's really important to me that the work isn't just sitting on top of something, that the materials are woven together - that they are recognisable and from the world.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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My rule is that if I interview someone, they should never read what I have to say about them and regret having given me the interview.
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I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream; it strengthens my creativity.
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I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't.
