Daniel Clowes Quotes
I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace.
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In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of the goods delivered to American shores, yet they are in constant need of revenue for facilities, improvements and upgrades to roads and bridges and rails.
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I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.
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As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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Researchers looked at news programs on major broadcast and cable networks between 2008 and 2012 and found that of those labeled as domestic terrorists, 81% were identifiable as Muslims - this despite the fact that FBI reports from the period studied revealed that only 6% of domestic terrorist suspects were Muslim.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.
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Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.
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No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.
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All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.
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It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.
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I spent a lot of time over in England wrestling at Butlins holiday camps for Brian Dixon and All Star Wrestling.
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
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When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.
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'Air' is very placeless - it's set in many different countries, and much of the story is about going places rather than being places. 'Air' is about travelers, and I'm a chronic traveler.
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With all this bulk there's nothing lost in Og,For every inch that is not fool is rogue :A monstrous mass of fuul corrupted matter,As all the devils had spew'd to make the baiter.When wine has given him courage to blaspheme,He curses God, but God before curst him ;And, if man could have reason, none has more.That made his paunch so rich, and him so poor.
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I hold to fiction as a cure, or partial cure, or cause for hope, or essential distraction from the rain you wake up to, the doubts in your head, the daily desolation that you have not yet said what is most true, you have not yet crafted the story that reveals you. And therefore something waits. Therefore you must wake and you must write and you are not alone. Your fiction is with you.
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We have to understand in value what the services of nature are so that we can understand that degrading them is an irreplaceable resource that no amount of money or human ingenuity can replace.
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I think that, as is the case offline, we should not be tolerant of hate speech, racist comments, or groups that promote hatred or intolerance in any shape or form.
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Anyway, that's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die.
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I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace.
