Jules Feiffer (Jules Ralph Feiffer) Quotes
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It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
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I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.
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I was just doing my job in the ring and doing my best to make people happy.
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We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.
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Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
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I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.
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A source of conflict for women everywhere is the pull between reproduction and production. Women worldwide have difficulty in balancing their dual roles as caregivers and providers.
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Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer. So my being able to reach the masses was something that meant a great deal to me - especially for women who could never wear Vera Wang.
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It would not be amiss for the novice to write the last paragraph of his story first, once a synopsis of the plot has been carefully prepared - as it always should be.
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I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball - just spend a lot more time with my family.
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I wasn't that great in sports. I started doing children's theater and loved it. I thought I had a great thing going with musicals. I thought, 'I can do this. It's fun.' I wanted to go for it, and I thought I'd like to make a living doing this.
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As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is a game that can be played by day, by night, at home and abroad, and at which you must win in the long run. . . . What an interest it imparts to life!.
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Moral revolutions are typically seen retrospectively. Prospectively, the revolutionaries tend to look like crazy people, and sometimes they are.
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Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.
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I wouldn't exactly call it 'Intelligent', but somebody has to be behind designing the human form other than just biological necessity. Why else would women have arms? Or feet? Or mouths?
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Design is important because chaos is so hard.
