Jim Woodring Quotes
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You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.
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Nationalism in Norway was very strong in 1905, that we must be free of Sweden. But I must say, I'm not 100 percent sure that was a wise decision. We had the war; we were occupied by Germans from 1940 to '45. And if there had been one Scandinavian country, then it would not have been so very easy probably to go ahead with the occupation.
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Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.
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Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
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The muses visit when I'm lonely.
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
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We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.
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The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people suspected of a crime.
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
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An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.
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When you guys are sleeping at night, I am out there working.
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I've always read books and loved human behavior since I was ten or twelve years old. Maybe even that's why I wanted to do comedy.
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The 'war on terror' has created a culture of fear in America.
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Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.
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Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.
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Little by little, not without astonishment, I rediscovered the great names of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who had been the master thinkers of my grandfather and other Mexican liberals. They did no offer me a doctrine or a catechism: they were and they are a source, an inspiration.
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Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own - and I realized that there was another world.
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No one can ever help loving anyone.
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My dream is to leave this business on my own terms, and if it were my terms, I would love to do the Royal Rumble. I would love to do Wrestle Mania in New Orleans, because I had so many matches there over the years working for Mid-South. I was in the ring with Muhammad Ali in the Superdome. To close it there would be great.
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All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.
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Comics could use more creators with something worthwhile to say.
