Jean Giraud Quotes
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Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.
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Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
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Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.
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When you love something, it doesn't feel like work.
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As supportive as my hometown is, in my high school, there are people who would probably walk up to me and punch me in the face. There's a select few that will never like me. They don't like what I stand for. They don't like somebody who stands for being sober, who stands for anything happy. They're going to be negative no matter what.
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Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play.
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I don't just whisper it, I say it and I say it: 'The United Nations is an anti-Semitic organization, an anti-Israel organization.'
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I've lived an amazing life. There's no reason to focus on the bad. They teach you that in racing school. Keep your eye where you want your front tire to be. You don't want to be stuck in the rut? Then don't look at the rut. Always look at where you want to go.
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With 'Richard,' I was excited to make this film with such an amazing role for an actor. Play a wide range of emotion and really invest myself in the character.
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When you play a guitar for a long time, you get your hand oils in there; it starts feeling good and behaving, and you just don't want to mess with that.
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It really is a blessing when two people who are so full of dignity and kindness and really live to make the world a better place get together.
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There are apparently three factors that lead to longevity: heredity, habits, and what your wife will let you get away with.
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Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.
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El hombre habla de todo y habla de todo como si el conocimiento de todo estuviese todo en él.
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Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.
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The parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted.
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As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile.
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There's something to be said for a likable character, but fiction has a way of upending our ordinary standards.
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When you wear a mask and create a character, nothing will pigeonhole you faster.
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I almost wish I could be more exciting, that I could match what is happening out there to me.
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At my age I'm envious of a stiff wind.
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I read it [history] a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all — it is very tiresome: and yet I often think it odd that it should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention.
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I started in 1957 when I sold my first story to a magazine.
