Patrick Chappatte Quotes
Let's not let cartoonists get involved in a war of any kind, except for a war against stupidity.
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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We would consider it our moral duty to lend all support to the ending of colonialism and imperialism so that people everywhere are free to mould their own destiny.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.
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The French complain of everything, and always.
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Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
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I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.
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When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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Mamata Banerjee is just a casual worker, just like a commoner.
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I feel comfortable any position I play. It doesn't matter.
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I did 14 movies in six years, I had a cartoon TV show, and I don't want to do that again. I just want to make unique pieces of art. That's why I quit everything when I was 14 and sat around for eight years before I did another movie.
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I think parents are probably really excited for their kids and want to give them everything. But there should be a limit on how much you give your kids. Because kids are quite creative, especially at a young age when they don't really know what rules are.
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If we go to Chihuahua we must be considered as prisoners of war?
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The War office kept three sets of figures - one to mislead the public, another to mislead the cabinet and the third to mislead itself.
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There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like... But prudent minds have as a natural gift one safeguard which is the common possession of all, and this applies especially to the dealings of democracies. What is this safeguard? Skepticism. This you must preserve. This you must retain. If you can keep this, you need fear no harm.
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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Let's not let cartoonists get involved in a war of any kind, except for a war against stupidity.
