Bill Watterson Quotes
God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
Quotes to Explore
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
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Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
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A lot of the players that I play with who are Canadian, they call me Patty. Before then, I never heard it. I didn't mind Patty.
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Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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It's not a lack of confidence, because I can't argue with the fact that I've taken some good pictures. But it's just a raw fear that you've taken the last one.
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I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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I was raised by very traditional Southern parents with Southern manners. You don't air your dirty laundry to people that aren't your family or your friends. Why would I ever want to portray myself as anything other than together?
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Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.
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As a kid, I always liked reading stories where I had a power-projection fantasy. I wanted to be inside of a story where I had power and influence, was going to rise to power, was going to somehow influence my society.
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My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
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No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession.
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Must one dread what others dread?
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I cannot believe that God wants punishment to go on interminably any more than does a loving parent. The entire purpose of loving punishment is to teach, and it lasts only as long as is needed for the lesson. And the lesson is always love.
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Far more than any other power, imagination is what sets human beings apart from every other species on earth.
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God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
