Jules Feiffer (Jules Ralph Feiffer) Quotes
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That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.
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The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continued to train in film classes and had been auditioning for T.V. and movie roles since I was in my late teens. My career has been slow and steady, and I kind of like it that way.
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
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I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell phones, no laptops... I learned to type on an actual typewriter.
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The game embarrasses you until you feel inadequate.
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During the first 10 years of my life, while my parents were married, I enjoyed a privileged upbringing. After their divorce, my life was difficult.
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Television programming is the number one topic on Twitter, and dozens of start-ups in the social space are linking second-screen experiences. People no longer need to sit on the same couch to enjoy a show together.
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There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.
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It is an extreme perversion of capitalism if you can trade in something before you have even paid for it.
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Peace is not wimpy. It's about sitting down and negotiating with people you hate. Ultimately, all occupation ends, and you have to deal with the enemy.
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In England, there is this tradition of the upper classes going to very expensive drama schools and then going on having careers. I knew that wasn't an option for me. My mother would never have been able to afford that.
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I would also say Barack Obama has spent much, much, much, much more money than the Republicans.
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I think people are universal.
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But when you want to come to work, it makes things that much better. Mentally, when you're at work, it doesn't feel like work. When you take the fun part away from basketball, that's a problem.
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I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then you need to try new things. And he was very willing to try unorthodox approaches when the orthodox approach had shown that it was not adequate.
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It sucks. I used to be governor of New York.
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The only women who don't believe that sexual harassment is a real problem in this country are women who have never been in the workplace.
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I only love when money makes a difference and not makes you different.
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Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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How memories lie to us. How time coats the ordinary with gold. How it breaks the heart to go back and attempt to re-live them. How crushed we are when we discover that the gold was merely gold-plating thinly coated over lead, chalk and peeling paint.
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Am I giving you enough to let you know that I want ya? My heart is beating out loud like thunder. Are you gonna kiss me? Are you gonna make me wonder?
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Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.
