Jules Feiffer (Jules Ralph Feiffer) Quotes
If you are not able to communicate successfully between yourself and yourself, how are you supposed to make it with the strangers outside?
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I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.
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Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
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The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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I'm very physical. I love to work out; I'm very athletic. It's a great therapy, not only for my body, but for my mind.
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They probably do have an Asian Barbie.
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We're here to win. We're not here just for the experience.
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The quarterback is an extension of the coach and has a certain type of swagger mentality, on and off the field.
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The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it because I think I have a weird barometer in the sense that some of the characters I've cared about the most in movies are characters that are often thought of as despicable.
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In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.
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Well, I'm a Christian. I was a born a Presbyterian and became an Episcopalian.
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Conrad Black is a picture of a man hugely enjoying himself.
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I'm a normal guy.
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I love singing and performing. I'm always singing. Even if I'm at school or in the car, I'm always singing. My mom said ever since I could talk, I was singing.
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If I can't do high kicks or dance in it, then I won't wear it.
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We did major work at the White House. But what people often don't understand is that when you do a historic restoration, you can't just do whatever you want. You work alongside the fine-arts commission and are obliged to create a replica of the past, as close as humanly possible. It's a historic institution, not a showhouse.
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When you talk to an author - to any artist, really - you learn something about how they do what they do. I've never come away from that kind of experience feeling disillusioned, as if the magician had explained his tricks. I always find a greater appreciation for the form.
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Angels possess greater powers than do human beings.
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You should never feel comfortable. There is something wrong if you are. You should always feel under threat, on the edge of your seat and pushing yourself. Win one and you want to win more. It's never-ending.
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If you are not able to communicate successfully between yourself and yourself, how are you supposed to make it with the strangers outside?
