Brian Chippendale Quotes
People have a hard time reading my comics. I think I leave things out, but I feel you should.
Quotes to Explore
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When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.
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The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.
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I was always very focused on how people dressed.
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When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.
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Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.
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All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.
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Traditionally with debut albums, labels insist on a face, so people know who you are.
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People ask me, 'Is 3D a good medium for horror movies?' I think it's the perfect thing for horror movies because it really puts you into it.
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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
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People tend to think they know you when you come into their televisions every week. They think you are different than who you are. Don't believe everything you hear.
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You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.
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I have no child to inherit my properties. You, the people, are my only family, and to make you happy is the reason I do politics.
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You'll get a kid in Liberia wearing a Tupac T-shirt, and for us, that's zef. People try to say it's like trash, but it's not really trash. It's putting things together you think are cool.
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In the end, it's a good investment for America to be involved in helping people get democratic governance - not to take over their country - but to help people be free. And that is an investment that will pay off in the future.
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I'm typically a 'just drink water' kind of guy. I was a bodybuilder in high school, so I used to - food to me was, 'there are this many grams of carbohydrates and proteins, and I need these micronutrients in order to grow and be fit,' and I ate in order to live and not live in order to eat, and I think most people are the opposite.
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I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting me - they're completely incredible people. It was my dad who encouraged me to question everything, to forge my own path, to think, to read. I always felt it was my right to question everything.
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During the 19th-century struggle for women's rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.
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People who create 20% of the results will begin believing they deserve 80% of the rewards.
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I found myself at dusk in the bewitching Roman city of Jerash with H.M. Queen Rania of Jordan one year, and scrambling with hardened paparazzi to get an image of the Princess of Wales in a tiny Nepalese clinic in the foothills of the Himalayas another.
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I was with the Lord In the manger of the ass. I upheld Moses Through the water of Jordan.
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I hardly ever think about audience. I just try to tell a story for me. I write the kind of story I would like to read.
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I really see myself continuing to design clothes, fragrances.
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Pickup's washed and you just got paid, with any luck at all you might even get laid.
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People have a hard time reading my comics. I think I leave things out, but I feel you should.
