Cathy Guisewite Quotes
Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material.
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I think the meaning of abortion is what the woman says it is: For a woman who wants a child but can't have this one, it can be sad; for a woman who doesn't want a baby, it can feel like a huge relief, like having your whole life given back to you.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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The identification of the genes which determine biological phenomena and the study of the control they exert on these phenomena has proven to be the most successful approach to a detailed understanding of the mechanism of biological processes.
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.
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I like to think that I'm one of the few people in public life who write their own material. I write every word. And I really enjoy writing - especially my political commentary.
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The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.
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I have always been interested in theater, as an actor and as someone who looks upon theater - at the risk of sounding pretentious - as an icon by which we measure society... My life has been in the theater to an extent. It's only an extension to write, direct, produce, whatever.
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The very first right of every animal is the right to live. As you cannot give life to a dead creature, you do not have the right to take life away from a living one.
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There is something … more important in life than punctuality, and that is decorum.
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I am very happy with what I see. The grey, the not-so grey and the camouflaged That's life. One has to live with it.
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For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.
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To be honest with you, I still eat whatever I want. It's all about portion control. I still love pizza, but instead of eating half, I eat a slice.
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I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'
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For the liespotter who knows how to listen well, the random words, sounds, and phrases in a person's speech are never as random as they seem. They offer a clear sightline into the liar's psyche.
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We live in the false as long as we have not suffered. But when we begin to suffer, we enter the truth only to regret the false.
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Yes, I love playing Mom.
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Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material.
