Scott McCloud Quotes
Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.
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As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people don't talk about race amongst themselves!
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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As feminism becomes more integrated into mainstream publications and conversation, I feel weary of an obsession of celebrity culture masquerading as activism or as conversation or action. It's clickbait.
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It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
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Well, first I have to make the team, of course.
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When you're trying to accomplish lofty goals, and when you're attacking something of great magnitude, you have to have help.
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I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It's a conscious thing; it's a common-sense thing.
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Since Sandy Hook, I have sat back as a father and been mesmerized by the inability of the federal government to do anything substantively on gun safety.
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I have literally played the most interesting parts since I turned 40.
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I feel it's tougher for the guys, because if I break up with them, then they can go on and be forced to watch me on TV every day. I don't see them.
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My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life.
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Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
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I was in the canon When Absalom was slain. I was in Llys Don Before the birth of Gwydion.
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No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.
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If I ever thought I wasn't the right guy for the job, I'd be the first person to fire myself.
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Everyone was saying computers were going to be the future of art; everyone had to do something in this medium. And it was almost some sort of rebellion that I wanted to do these small, intimate drawings.
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Can any thing in this world be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth can come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster?
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We are God's creation, and we have a responsibility to keep ourselves at our best.
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Girls are taught to be so afraid to take up any "space," even with their own bodies, and hair is a part of that. I'm glad to not be a part of that!
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Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.
