Steve Breen (Stephen Paul Breen) Quotes
As an editorial cartoonist now, I live for those moments of inspiration, and it is exhilarating to be inspired by a topic, have an opinion on the topic, come up with a good cartoon on the topic, and to draw it and get it in the paper the next day. That is what I live for.
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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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It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
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Did anyone ever have a boring dream?
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
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I always fall in love with qualities of people I work with.
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Normally in dangerous situations I have a getaway car.
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It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.
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I'm somebody who can laugh even at myself. That happens now and again, when I've made a mess of really simple things.
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I'm very picky, and I'm never 100% happy with the work I do; I hate watching myself and hearing my voice.
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Every form is a base for colour, every colour is the attribute of a form.
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One characteristic that I hope I never relinquish is an intense curiosity about the world around me.
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I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it.
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It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has caused me deep concern and distress.
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The majority of mankind is lazy-minded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith; and when the ordinary man calls himself a sceptic or an unbeliever, that is ordinarily a simple pose, cloaking a disinclination to think anything out to a conclusion.
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Adaptation to one's environment makes for a sort of survival; but after all, the supreme victory is only won by those who prove themselves of so much hardier stuff than the rest that no power on earth is able to destroy them. The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
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The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.
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I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations which are as many as they are useless; at last I am living in the scintillating splendor of the stars, each of which used to seem to me as large as millions of suns.
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Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.
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What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope... It is not a reflection of all religious people.
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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not.
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As an editorial cartoonist now, I live for those moments of inspiration, and it is exhilarating to be inspired by a topic, have an opinion on the topic, come up with a good cartoon on the topic, and to draw it and get it in the paper the next day. That is what I live for.
