John Katzman Quotes
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Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.
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The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
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One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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Can we really mobilize support, even of friends, when we tell them that if you are not with us you are against us?
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The hair department on 'Game of Thrones' is incredible.
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The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.
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I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
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Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?
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Any mechanism that will ensure benefits to consumer, any mechanism that will ensure that we do not waste food grains, any mechanism that helps the poorest of the poor is a welcome step.
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The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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Regardless of some disagreements in the past with Dr. Kissinger, I personally had a very good relationship with the secretary when I served as ambassador to the United States and later on as premier.
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I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.
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Anything I sing is supposed to be genuine. It's not supposed to be make-believe or I'm making something for the crowd to jump or to hold up their hands.
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I love owning my masters.
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I don't golf. I've never golfed. I will never golf.
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Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?
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I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about it, so I did another. And another, and then the readers demanded yet more.
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I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.
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The principal achievement of Europe is peace, which we often forget about as it has become so taken for granted by Europeans.
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I'd never taken an SAT prep course. They were for weaker students.
