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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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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An important part of any focusing regimen is to set aside time at the end of the day - just before going to sleep - to acknowledge your successes, review your goals, focus on your successful future, and make specific plans for what you want to accomplish the next day.
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Success made me self-sufficient, but it also took away my anonymity. I'm just this quiet nobody, and all of a sudden people are nervous around me. That was kind of weird.
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In first grade, I told my friends I had a third story in my house filled with jewels and lions.
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If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.
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A real job is a job you hate.
