George Lois Quotes
I had a fistfight with every kid on my block. I got about fifteen broken noses to prove it. Part of it was also because I was always drawing, and I always had an artist portfolio with me. But I was a tough kid. I won their respect.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
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I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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I could go to London in 2012. I will only be 37.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
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I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
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I always try to remain aware that what affects others affects me, too.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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I bought my first electric car in 1970. Its top speed was 15 mph and it had just a 15 mile range - it was essentially a golf cart with a windshield wiper and a horn.
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What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C. is a very cerebral space. So, they're the ying and the yang in my world. I like them both for their own reasons.
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I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?
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We get criticized for showing no personality, then we get penalized when we do.
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I'm the weird poet who has paid her dues in the experimental world for 30 or 40 years.
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Rome is a very loony city in every respect. One needs but spend an hour or two there to realize that Fellini makes documentaries.
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I'll tell ya, I don't get no respect... The other day, I got back from a business trip. I got in a cab and said to the driver, "Hey! Take me to where the action is!" So ya know where he took me? He took me to my house!
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I had a fistfight with every kid on my block. I got about fifteen broken noses to prove it. Part of it was also because I was always drawing, and I always had an artist portfolio with me. But I was a tough kid. I won their respect.
