Gerald Scarfe Quotes
I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation.
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You know you've made your mark when you're on the cover of a videogame.
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Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
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I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.
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There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.
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When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right hand knows that 0.3 seconds after I hit this key, I need to hit that one. And the right hand knows not to hit keys that the left hand is playing, so the hands do not collide.
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I've always sort of believed that the future takes care of itself.
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To go back means defeat.
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I used to watch Oprah Winfrey, and whenever she used to lose weight, I used to be like, 'How's she losing it? What is she doing?' But it's all about education and knowledge, feeding yourself and knowing that too much carbs is what gets us fat.
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Have the pride of the brown girl and know that you'll figure out your own beauty in time.
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Death can only be profitable: there’s no need to eat, drink, pay taxes, offend people, and since a person lies in a grave for hundreds or thousands of years, if you count it up the profit turns out to be enormous.
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I don't really sell many records.
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I have so many messy moments.
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Upon graduation from high school, following my brother by a couple of years, I joined the U.S. Air Force.
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There is no right religion, and no one can prove that there is.
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I put a lot of trust in my stylist, Micaela Erlanger.
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There is a saying that we provide the machines with an end, and they provide us with the means.
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It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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Never ask a favor until you are drawing your last breath; and never forget one.
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I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation.
