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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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The reason behind Hrithik being the best dancer is that he never takes his work for granted.
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When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it.
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We tried to get him the ball. That was one of the strategies we tried to do coming into the game. With his size and his ability, one of the things we wanted to do was get him the ball.
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I'm still having fun and as long as skiing is enjoyable, I'm going to continue to do it.
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Blog-based businesses have lower cost structures and are more 'authentic,' and as a result are drawing larger shares of ad budgets.
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One of the things when you're drawing a comic book is that you're spending four or five times as long to draw it as the writer takes to write it. In my career I've had to spend a week drawing something that a writer has thrown out in an hour. And there's nothing worse than having to work on something that no previous thought has gone into.
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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.
