Jules Feiffer (Jules Ralph Feiffer) Quotes
Eventually, if it's on your mind, you stumble on it. You need a certain amount of luck and persistence.
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If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
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I take certain steps to make sure I'm relevant artistically. I always have new music and a reason to be on the road. I'm not just playing 'Get By' over and over. I have 12 albums.
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The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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The more deeply connected you are with the people that you're working with, the better the work and the character, and then, I think, that really translates to life. It will help you in life to be more grounded and genuine.
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I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.
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Stay focused on the mission.
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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
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It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.
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It's cool having a little bit of money to do your thing.
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When climate change supercharges weather patterns, the disadvantaged often suffer first and most.
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Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
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On films, you have the liberty of working out the details, the psychology, taking maybe more risks and takes than you can in television just because you can't be figuring things out on the day.
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I leave with sadness, but with pride: Dravid on retirement
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You have the power to remind us all that human dignity is not just a universal aspiration, but a human right.
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Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming.
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...most of the people in a war never fight for even a minute-though they bear for years and die forever. They do not fight, but only starve, only suffer, only die: the sum of all this passive misery is that great activity, War.
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The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit.
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I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty.
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Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom!
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Sleater-Kinney becomes bigger than the three of us. It pulls us along, in a way.
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I eliminated coffee and fish from my diet. The pesticides in coffee and fish, as well as the mercury in the latter, are considered possible contributors to birth defects in fetal tissue.
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In Brazil we have a comic strip in the newspaper. That one also attracts a different kind of followers.
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Eventually, if it's on your mind, you stumble on it. You need a certain amount of luck and persistence.
