Joe Sacco Quotes
My guide had a copy of Palestine on my last trip to Gaza. He'd bring it out and show people what I was trying to do. That usually went over pretty well.
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These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.
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Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls never dream of doing - like showering.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.
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Everyone watches everyone pitch. If they're doing good, you're trying to take something out of them. I've taken something from probably every average to above-average pitcher I've ever played with - what they do. You see what they do and how you can put that into your game.
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The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.
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I'm basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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I wrote poetry and short stories. I would send them to magazines; they wouldn't get in. But short stories are how I found philosophy and how I'd understand the world.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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My guide had a copy of Palestine on my last trip to Gaza. He'd bring it out and show people what I was trying to do. That usually went over pretty well.
