Jules Feiffer (Jules Ralph Feiffer) Quotes
I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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I have already reached out to the janata, and I am only trying to acquaint myself with people's problems.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.
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Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.
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In Italy there's perhaps a little less space than in Spain, but there's certainly as much sunshine.
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The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.
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Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the cards, the development of the cards' manipulation and the revelation of what has been achieved.
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Terrorists convince thousands of people to kill themselves in the name of God. I can't convince two of my friends to help me move.
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I know quite a few fellow members of the news analysis and commentary business, and I have it from the highest-placed sources, on the record, that each and every one of our children is a genius.
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Words are things, but things which mean. We cannot do away with meaning without doing away with signs, that is, with language itself. Moreover, we would have to do away with the universe. All the things man touches are impregnated with meaning.
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My predecessor, P. W. Botha, had an inner circle, and I did not like it. I preferred decisions to evolve out of cabinet discussions. That way, we achieved real co-ownership of our policies.
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I know there are those in the community who, rather than have us invest more in policing, even for community policing, instead want us to disinvest in the police department. We need a police department. We are going to have a police department.
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Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
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I'm a DJ, but I'm also a ridiculously high-grossing musician due to doing productions.
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It's hard sometimes to capture magic when it comes to live records.
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I don't think there is anything immediately that we are going to do to get us lower prices.
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The barrels were on a platform and to keep the platform level someone had shoved a quarter-inch tape box underneath it. I pulled it out. Covered in old beer and sweat and condensation, it was one of the master tapes of Joy Division's debut album, Unknown Pleasures. It made me smile. It was an absolutely perfect metaphor for the Haçienda. Joy Division had held the whole fucking thing up.
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I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.
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My father's music has always inspired me in many ways... especially to be better at what I do.
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I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.
