Daniel Clowes Quotes
For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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I went through a training camp; I worked extremely hard. I prepared for UFC 200. This was the big one. This one meant everything to me.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.
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New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.
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I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare.
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Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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Virtual reality is a tough sell for a software developer. They have to convince investors that not only are they going to build a good game, which is what they normally have to do, they have to convince them that it's going to be a good game and that virtual reality will be successful.
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
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My slogan is I'm the least qualified guy for the job, but I'd probably do the best job.
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My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.
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Amen is not the end of a prayer, it just gets us ready to go to the next level.
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The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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A lot of times, you think you want something, and then you find something completely different.
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A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.
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Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.
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The great thing about YouTube is there are no gatekeepers. No one is waiting to tell you if you're good enough. It's just your audience.
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One of the great tragedies of life, it seems to me, is when a person classifies himself as someone who has no talents or gifts. When, in disgust or discouragement, we allow ourselves to reach depressive levels of despair because of our demeaning self-appraisal, it is a sad day for us and a sad day in the eyes of God. For us to conclude that we have no gifts when we judge ourselves by stature, intelligence, grade-point average, wealth, power, position, or external appearance is not only unfair but unreasonable.
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Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself.
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Every single match, every single point, I have to concentrate.
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For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.
