Gary Ackerman Quotes

Every gun sold should require a background check, period.

Gary Ackerman

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• I work hard at my job, and I guess hard work pays off.

  

  Walt Handelsman
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• There are a lot of really great cartoonists out there. It's nice to be thought of as one of them.

  

  Walt Handelsman
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  • Nice
  • Thought

• The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • People
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• Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

  

  Saint Augustine
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• I love working with people and having them bring something to the table that I couldn't. I think one of my favourite artists to work with has been Kucka. She's Australian, too, and it's great working with her because we kind of have a very similar take on music, and we like a lot of the same stuff. We're not super-precious about ideas.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Want
  • Safety
  • Framed

• Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Honor
  • Soldiers
  • Meeting

• When movies first came out, maybe they were in black and white and there wasn't any sound and people were saying the theater is still the place to be. But now movies and theater have found their own place in the world. They are each legitimate art forms.

  

  Hans Zimmer
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People
  • World
  • History

• When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • Up
  • College
  • Journey

• Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • True
  • Professional
  • Be True

• I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Good
  • Work
  • Writing

• You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more horrific because they've had the release of the laugh before it.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Audience
  • Laugh
  • Release

• By nature I'm sort of an introvert.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Nature
  • Sort
  • Introvert

• Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Good
  • Brooklyn
  • Funky

• I believe that it's better to have a conviction, believe strongly in something, and then the convictions create a style that reflects your mentality.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Believe
  • Style
  • Better

• If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • College
  • Student
  • Tuition

• I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Art
  • Best
  • Addiction

• I had the good fortune to be able to take a course with Margaret Mead. I had a fabulous art course, where it was explained to me that nothing exists in a vacuum, that everything is a result of the period in which it's done - the economics, the sociology, the politics, all sewn together. That was a very important lesson.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Good
  • Important
  • Done

• I went into my own black-out period 1942-45 which lasted two or three years where the canvases would simply build up until they’d get like stone and it was always just a gray mess. The image wouldn’t emerge, but I worked pretty regularly. I was fighting to find I knew not what, but I could no longer stay with what I had.

  

  Lee Krasner
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Black

• After I joined Toyota, there was a period when I drove more than 200 cars in one year - different types, other companies' cars. I want to be able to tell what distinguishes one car from the next.

  

  Akio Toyoda
  • Different
  • Car
  • Period

• The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975.

  

  Jose Saramago
  • Work
  • Important
  • Beginning

• Nick could see the gun shaking in Alan's hand now, in tight, terrified spasms. "Last night we put a magician in the river," Alan said, his voice low and intense as if he was making a promise."Maybe we should send you to join him." "You know the rules," the woman whispered. "Don't shoot the messenger." Nick interrupted, leaning down to speak in her ear. "Do they say 'Don't cut the messenger in half with your great big sword'?

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Night
  • Speak
  • Promise

• Every gun sold should require a background check, period.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • Period
  • Gun
  • Background