Saul Steinberg Quotes
People who see a drawing in the "New Yorker" will think automatically that it's funny because it is a cartoon. If they see it in a museum, they think it is artistic; and if they find it in a fortune cookie they think it is a prediction.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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Since FDR's New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from the government.
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I'm a 'Lost' guy, I love 'Lost.'
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There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.
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I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.
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Layering in different patterns will keep things from appearing too studied.
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It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.
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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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I really am an open book. I don't keep anything in at all, which is good and bad.
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Paul Rudd is too perfect. He's super talented, super nice and super calm. I just think he's a robot.
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I love drag queens... they perform me better than I ever could myself.
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I'm obsessed with 'Top Chef'.
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If we ever find out how the brain works, with all its complexity, then we will be able to build a machine that has consciousness. And if that happens, that is a road to planetary disaster because everything we've thought about ourselves, since the Bronze Age, the Bible, all of that will be gone.
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Because war is a competition involving life and death, and in which national security and vital interests are at stake, establishing an objective other than winning is not only counterproductive, but also irresponsible and wasteful. In some circumstances, it is also unethical.
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I lived in San Pedro, California, which is, you know, on the west side of California, and it's where many, many Japanese lived.
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It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.
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When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.
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I think good things are happening to me and will continue. I am not optimistic about the rest of the species, but I'm so blessed, it's almost scary. I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I have a wildly sunny disposition. I love to laugh.
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The reason behind Hrithik being the best dancer is that he never takes his work for granted.
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It's frightening to think about more sanctions. When I've met North Koreans in China, they've said to me, 'You have no idea how difficult our lives are. We live like dogs.' They wake up in the morning wondering what they're going to eat for dinner.
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I don't let it bother me too much if someone doesn't like me. I just figure there's no accounting for taste. It's not me, it's my acting. It's like if someone doesn't like someone's food, they just don't like my acting.
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Art came fluidly, so I was able to teach myself many of the things I thought were important by copying and mimicking my artistic idols.
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People who see a drawing in the "New Yorker" will think automatically that it's funny because it is a cartoon. If they see it in a museum, they think it is artistic; and if they find it in a fortune cookie they think it is a prediction.
