Michael Ramirez Quotes
When people ask me what is an editorial cartoonist, I often say we're kind of a hybrid. We're a cross between Edward R. Morrow, Ted Koppel and the Son of Sam.
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You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you've got to make it look like what it's supposed to look like five years from now.
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We have to prove to the disinherited majority of the world that ecology and conservation will not work against their interest but will bring an improvement in their lives.
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I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order.
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Celebrity culture is an aspirational culture regardless of how much you don't want it to be.
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The last season of 'Rescue Me' is going to be very sort of half and half: it's how you think 'Rescue Me' would end versus something very outside the box. And, they do it in this sort of perfect way - it's only nine episodes, you know. Very stream-lined.
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My mother is really the person I learned to curse from. She discourages me from saying that in interviews. But it's true.
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The good thing about breaking up is that you have nothing else to lose.
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Do not disregard the accumulation of goodness, saying, 'This will come to nothing.' By the gradual falling of raindrops, a jar is filled.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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... but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood.
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Most women loathe limericks, for the same reason that calves hate cookbooks.
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Looking back I realize I had the perfect family background to become the political cartoonist that I became. My father was stupid, insensitive, and cruel, thereby making me distrustful of all authority. On the other hand, I had a warm, supportive and encouraging mother, which made me want to fix the world.
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If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
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I've crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never thought I'd have to come to. And I don't know how I got here. It's a strange place. It's a place where a little harmless dreaming and then some sleepy, early-morning talk has led me into considerations of death and annihilation.
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When people ask me what is an editorial cartoonist, I often say we're kind of a hybrid. We're a cross between Edward R. Morrow, Ted Koppel and the Son of Sam.
