Mort Walker Quotes
The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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All the reasons that have made software so successful are beginning to happen with hardware. So much can be done so quickly, prototyped so rapidly, and the costs are so low.
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Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
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Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
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I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate.
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I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.
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I try to be a good father, and my kids are the most important thing in my life.
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Spain and the United States share the same values of democracy, liberty and fundamental freedoms.
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The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages.
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I'm a comedian, and I have my share of anxiety and depression; so do most of my friends. My humor tends to lie in the juxtaposition of extreme lightness - I'm a huge musical-theater fan - and extreme darkness. And so I really like playing with those because that's how I feel.
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I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, 'Well, I really want to try acting while I'm young, and I don't ever want to look back and say that I never gave it a try.' I fully figured I'd be back in grad school - probably for psychology.
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Working with Candy Bergen was really wonderful.
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Prophecy is rash, but it may be that the publication of D.T. Suzuki's first Essays in Zen Buddhism in 1927 will seem to future generations as great an intellectual event as William of Moerbeke's Latin translations of Aristotle in the thirteenth century or Marsiglio Ficino's of Plato in the fifteenth.
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People love watching medical dramas - they also love watching documentaries about the workings of the brain.
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When the Revolution triumphed in 1959, our island was a true Yankee colony. The United States had duped and disarmed our Liberation Army. One couldn't speak of developed agriculture, but of immense plantations exploited on the base of manual and animal labour that in general used neither fertilizers nor machinery.
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Short-lived people, people who could die, did not know what enemies loneliness and boredom could be.
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The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived.
