Daniel Clowes Quotes
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Republicans traditionally say, 'oh, we'll cut domestic spending, but we won't touch the military.' The liberals - the ones who are good - will say, 'oh, we'll cut the military, but we won't cut domestic spending.'
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The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.
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My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that he never could be persuaded to keep slaves, for he pitied them so much: and a slave belonging to one of his brothers being once in his house, was treated by him with as much tenderness as his own children.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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The kids can see that there are more parts to me than just being their mom; I wear a couple of different hats and have other roles to play.
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I got thrust into some great things when I was really young.
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The typical workday, particularly in startup mode, is from nine to six or nine to seven, then you take a two-hour break to work out and eat dinner. By that time, you're relaxed, and then you work until midnight or one A.M. If there was no break with physical activity, you'd be more tired and less alert.
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You do the policy, I'll do the politics.
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If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
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I still have nightmares about taking tests.
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You think you choose the subjects of your books. But sometimes, in ways you don't know, the books choose you.
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I think any message behind a lifestyle brand should embrace everyone.
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I don't want to be in somebody else's movie, and then they make all the money. I've gotten offers to do the movies, but I won't sell myself short and be in somebody else's movie, like 'Boyz N the Hood.' I don't think I woulda done that.
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It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation.
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The best are the ones built without controversy, when the owner, the architect, and the builder work together.
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I'm very smart, and I have a great team of people around me investing my money. I'm not buying gold - yet.
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A lapse in judgment is not a crime.
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I have never done a thriller, and it will just be really fun for me to heave and pant and run and climb and break windows and scream every once in a while.
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Indeed, the line between perceiving and hallucinating is not as crisp as we like to think. In a sense, when we look at the world, we are hallucinating all the time. One could almost regard perception as the act of choosing the one hallucination that best fits the incoming data.
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When politicians rush to fix things, it's a sure sign that either the intended patient is dead or fully healed.
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History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
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I feel that one of the hardest things in acting is the way you need to switch your emotions.
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The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
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I'm a fan of parchment and wood pulp.
