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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How can there be peace without people understanding each other; and how can this be if they don't know each other?
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The introduction of cooking may well have been the decisive factor in leading man from a primarily animal existence into one that was more fully human.
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Also, I think having that comic gene kind of makes you look at things in a different way. If you take yourself so seriously, eventually you end up one of those people having a 'Do Not Disturb' sign on their lives. You see them drawing the curtains and they don't even realize that they've kind of drifted off somewhere.
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I had - I was pretty hell bent on getting into the cartoon business specifically as an artist from the get-go.
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Authenticity doesn't just mean you're not filtering what you're saying, it's about being able to know and access the best parts of yourself and bring them forward.
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My favorite drawings at the Muhammad cartoon festival in Texas were the two chalk outlines out front.
