Bill Watterson Quotes
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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I love to write.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
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I was kind of loathe to go on social media. I find the trolling unacceptable, and I never wanted to look like I was someone who would accept that.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
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Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
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The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.
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Just to paint a representation or design is not hard, but to express a thought in painting is. Thought is fluid. What you put on canvas is concrete, and it tends to direct the thought. The more you punt on canvas the more you lose control of the thought. I’ve never been able to paint what I set out to paint.
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Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.
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I'm terribly happy at the moment - someone up there must be looking out for me.
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He is very fond of making things which he does not want, and then giving them to people who have no use for them.
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The experience of watching great cinema - great art - is life enriching and spiritually uplifting no matter whether it's about as difficult as it gets, like 'Breaking the Waves,' or as light as it gets, like 'Jerry Maguire,' 'Election' or 'Toy Story.'
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I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations.
