Burne Hogarth Quotes
My father would sit and design furniture and cabinets - he was a carpenter and cabinet maker - and I would ask for my own piece of paper and pencil. And when I would say, 'What should I draw?' he would push a cartoon under my nose and say, 'Here, draw this.' So the cartoon became a kind of focus of attention.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
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My songs are a mix of my own weird raised-by-wolves perspective and civilization.
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The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
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Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.
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I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
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Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time I've got left, I intend to write artistic books - for kids - because they're still open to new ideas.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.
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I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
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I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world.
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I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that's fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that's fine. And it might not be right, because I'm the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It's the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.
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I'm really scared of flying. Like, really, really, really scared.
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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
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The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile.
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I was a really bad taxi driver. I only collided twice but it was one time too much.
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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
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I didn't ever plan to be a producer, and I didn't really know what I was getting myself into.
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The simple act of sitting down and playing something enormously complex and spiritually uplifting on a harpsichord just bores kids to tears. There's no sizzle, there's no grab. But it's the great lesson of serious music, that it invites you to listen, rather than demands that you listen.
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Science blogs bore me. When everyone is an expert, no one is an expert.
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My father would sit and design furniture and cabinets - he was a carpenter and cabinet maker - and I would ask for my own piece of paper and pencil. And when I would say, 'What should I draw?' he would push a cartoon under my nose and say, 'Here, draw this.' So the cartoon became a kind of focus of attention.
