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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I have favorite authors from a lifetime of reading, so there are some I'll automatically read every time they have a new novel. Included in them: Robert Goddard, Jeffery Deaver, Sophie Kinsella, Katherine Neville, Greg Isle, Laurie King, Lee Child, Lisa Tucker, Susan Howatch, Paul Auster. Barry Eisler, David Hewson, Tracy Chevalier.
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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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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
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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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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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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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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
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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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If you're able to help some people and make them smile and make them realize that life is good, then that's worth so much more than buying a pair of shoes.
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I do have moments when I feel insecure. I do have moments when I feel jealous, and that's normal. It's a very normal emotion. It's your action and your attitude and your reaction to that that is important.
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I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
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You want to live a life in which the things you have traded your hard-earned money for are quality items that really do uplift your life.
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There's nothing wrong with using the money that you earn to be daring and buy art that you love or that you think is beautiful.
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No companies are ever going to pay you enough money to sue them successfully. (pp. 50-51)
