Bill Watterson Quotes
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!
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Responsible statesmen have only one choice - to do everything possible to prevent a nuclear catastrophe. Any other position is short-sighted; more so, it is suicidal.
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Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
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I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven't got the overt threat of a knife in the face.
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Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer. - On being a social smoker.
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I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a children's author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president.
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To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
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I've never understood the 'things to do before you die' idea. If I was ill, I'd be in no mood to have a swim with a dolphin.
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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
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Personality is so important - when you dress somebody for a big party, it is good to feel that the person has an ease and naturalness with what she is wearing.
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Es ist so bequem, unmündig zu sein. Habe ich ein Buch, das für mich Verstand hat, einen Seelsorger, der für mich Gewissen hat, einen Arzt, der für mich die Diät beurtheilt u. s. w., so brauche ich mich ja nicht selbst zu bemühen. Ich habe nicht nöthig zu denken, wenn ich nur bezahlen kann.
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Something was dead in each of us,And what was dead was Hope.
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As feminism made this transition from equal opportunity to unequal opportunism, I made my transition from supporter to critic. But in my inner psyche, there was no transition: I went from supporter of equality to supporter of equality.
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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.
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Prayer ardent opens heaven.
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Geoffrey Robertson: You don't think that this man deserves to die?Yusuf Islam: Who, Salman Rushdie?Robertson: Yes.Islam: Yes, yes.Robertson: And do you have a duty to be his executioner?Islam: Uh, no, not necessarily, unless we were in an Islamic state and I was ordered by a judge or by the authority to carry out such an act - perhaps, yes.
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A vine bears three grapes, the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third of repentance.
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The caterpillars of the commonwealth, Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.
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No matter what fabulous place I visit, I don't feel like I'm on vacation unless I'm dehydrated and covered with sunscreen.
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Life is most delightful on the downward slope.
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We're a family operation. There's not many of us. We have a couple people who come from time to time who work with us. Two of my sons are themselves filmmakers, and we can't afford them nor they us.
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I want viewers want to talk about The Conquest. I want the dialogue to start after the movie. The cinema is there to leave a trace. I hope my film leaves a trace and that it will open a door for French cinema and that tomorrow other directors will make political movies. The job of a filmmaker today is to talk about the world surrounding him and, through his movies, to both entertain and raise questions about modern society.
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From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.
