Bill Watterson Quotes
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I like to wear shoes that are cool but also practical. The same goes for bags. Your bag is a big deal in New York. You can't just carry around a little clutch, because you don't have a car or anywhere to stash things during the day, so you need to carry your whole life with you. That's why I like big, chunky bags with lots of compartments.
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It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
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It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.
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I could go to London in 2012. I will only be 37.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
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I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
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I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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I'm not afraid of change, let's put it that way.
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The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.
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New synthetic substances - steel, concrete, glass - are actively superseding the traditional raw materials of construction.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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Knowledge is encoded in models. Models are synthetic sets of rules, and pictures, and algorithms providing us with useful representations of the world of our perceptions and of their patterns.
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This whole climate change and what it's doing to our environment is frightening to people.
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There are bad people in this world who are motivated by hate.
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I'm just so comfortable with my hard work that I'm not worried about if I didn't get a job, or I didn't get that movie, or they didn't like me. It's like, 'It's OK. I can go play golf now. Have a great day.'
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A real job is a job you hate.
