Jeff MacNelly Quotes
Editorial pages all say, 'Well, the other guy has a point, too. It remains to be seen how this will come out. We certainly hope it comes out fine; blah, blah.' Cartoonists don't go that way. Our job is to stick out our tongues, to show a big raspberry to whatever pompous jerk happens to be mouthing off.
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.
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The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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Over the next decade, there will be disruption as significant as the Internet was for publishing, where blockchain is going to disrupt dozens of industries, one being capital markets and Wall Street.
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Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.
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I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.
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I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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Our reactor actually burns nuclear waste as fuel. So not only is it safe and powerful, it solves an important issue: It actually reduces nuclear waste instead of creating. It's the reactor of your dreams.
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When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
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There's only so much you can do with a male voice in dance music.
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I'm socially awkward in life, and that's one of the reasons why I do what I do. I'm more about interpreting other people's words.
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I'd love to do situation comedy - it's the best job in show business.
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You ran away and left us to do the job that you could not do.
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We're warriors, this culture, and we're very puritanical about sex and very embracing about violence and I don't know why that is.
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What I immediately recognized about Wall Street in 1983 was that it was a continuation of my career in theater. Wall Street is a big theater, and it's all illusions.
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Editorial pages all say, 'Well, the other guy has a point, too. It remains to be seen how this will come out. We certainly hope it comes out fine; blah, blah.' Cartoonists don't go that way. Our job is to stick out our tongues, to show a big raspberry to whatever pompous jerk happens to be mouthing off.
