Gary Ackerman Quotes
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I work hard at my job, and I guess hard work pays off.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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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.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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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.
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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
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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.
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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.
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By nature I'm sort of an introvert.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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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.
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If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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Music is in me. I don't have much of a choice. People might listen to one of my songs or come and see my because of my famous last name, but if my music's not good they won't hang around.
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The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us.
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In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.
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What of the tale of Balaam's ass speaking to him, probably in Hebrew? Is it true, or is it a fable? Many asses have spoken, and doubtless some in Hebrew, but they have not been that breed of asses. Is salvation to depend on a belief in a monstrosity like this?
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Every gun sold should require a background check, period.
