Dave Sim Quotes
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I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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We'll always be fascinated by people who live above the law.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.
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Sometimes I'm not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
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High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.
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I find short, fast romances romantic. There's a beauty to dark imagery.
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The only routine with me is no routine at all.
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We want to get to a point where anything you can think of finding that is video related is searchable or recommended to you on YouTube.
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Kabir Khan is a director who goes out of his way to make his actors comfortable. He's very chilled out. He makes the environment on set very casual and friendly.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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I had the impression from reading English literature that British women were great beauties, and I only had seen Julie Christie, and she was gorgeous and sexy. I don't know whether it was just my taste, but when I got to London, I went two years without seeing a truly attractive woman. A lot of near misses.
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.
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Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link.
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I love having horses from a young age and seeing how far they can go.
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The soul shares not the body's test.
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I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in a band with musicians and writers.
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If you're just starting out in the workforce, the very best thing you can do for yourself is to get started in your workplace retirement plan. Contribute enough to grab any matching dollars your employer is offering (a.k.a. the last free money on earth).
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No companies are ever going to pay you enough money to sue them successfully. (pp. 50-51)
