Dave Sim Quotes
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I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books.
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My public in Guadalajara and the people from Guadalajara, they've supported me since day one.
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Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.
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Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.
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Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?
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I can use most of the tools that every American teenager can master. Maybe not all of them.
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Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
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I think there's no creative process that goes without injuries and scratches and punches. You get beat up somehow, and that's part of the commitment. You have to be open to that.
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How is it that mercury is not safe for food additives and Over the Counter drug products, but it is safe in our vaccines and dental amalgams?
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I love graffiti because it enables kids from every social extraction to do something that brings them closer to art, when they normally wouldn't be stimulated to be visually creative. Graffiti helps to develop an awareness of immediate expressive and uncontrolled freedom.
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I didn't even want to start acting when I started. At least, I never thought about it.
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Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.
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Portam itineri dici longissimam esse.
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I thank God tonight for freedom - those who bought and paid for it with their lives in the past - those who will protect it in the present and defend it in the future.
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Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.
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Without Ukraine, Russia's imperial aspirations are essentially nostalgia, but it's not a real policy.
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We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.
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Once you're in a room like '30 Rock,' it's a creative setting, so you write more even after you go home, just because you're still in that mode of coming up with jokes. So the job wasn't sapping standup jokes, but it was sapping stand up time and energy, and I wouldn't be able to travel as much.
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Leftist reactions are always histrionic.
