Evan Sayet Quotes
My favorite drawings at the Muhammad cartoon festival in Texas were the two chalk outlines out front.
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Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
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Cancer is really a DNA disease... We have these certain genes that prevent our cells from growing out of control at the expense of the body. And it's a pretty good, robust system. But if a couple of these genes fail, then that's when cancer starts, and cells start growing out of control.
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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.
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I don't like messing up. I think that's just a part of my personality. I don't like to mess up or do anything wrong. When I'm in gymnastics, I like to see my hit percent as high as possible.
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The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.
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John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.
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A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.
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I'm still traumatized that I'm going to be on a big screen in a white bikini and naked so who knows!
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.
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If civilization has an opposite, it is war.
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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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The most important thing is readers. I've got a huge Twitter following, but I don't really think it sells books; I don't think a huge Facebook following sells books - although these things aren't bad, of course.
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The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is, to me, one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.
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From my experience, moving through life, things tend to go in eight- to 10-year cycles. Friends, relationships and whatnot.
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I can look back at things I've done and said and worn and be completely humiliated by them, but I can never say it wasn't me. I feel really honored to say that.
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My desk is my drums.
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Why give you answers you wont believe?Well, answers I don't believe would be a step forward.
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Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Perhaps, in a way, that's where humanity is now: about to discover we're not as smart as we thought we were, will be forced by life to surrender our attacks and defenses which avail us of nothing, and finally break through into the collective beauty of who we really are.
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I write, fighting for every sentence, fighting to hold the reader with every paragraph.
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When I first started drawing the earliest incarnation of 'Optic Nerve,' I hadn't even been on a date; I hadn't had a romantic relationship of any kind yet, so in a way, I was almost writing science fiction.
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Well, the whole story is in the book, but the short answer is that I was the first information architect in an organization that was traditionally design-oriented, and I felt I needed a tool to help me gain the trust and support of my colleagues.
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My favorite drawings at the Muhammad cartoon festival in Texas were the two chalk outlines out front.
