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.

Gerald Scarfe

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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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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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.

  

  AJ McLean
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• China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.

  

  Zhang Xin
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• With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.

  

  Maiara Walsh
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• Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.

  

  Nancy Astor
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• I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.

  

  Larry Brown
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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.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • Guy
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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.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Hand
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• I've always sort of believed that the future takes care of itself.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Future
  • Always
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• I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real hardware. It doesn't matter. Gamers don't make their purchase decisions based on movies that were shown in May for products that come out in March.

  

  J Allard
  • Great
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• To go back means defeat.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Back
  • Go
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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.

  

  Fat Joe
  • She
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• Have the pride of the brown girl and know that you'll figure out your own beauty in time.

  

  Tamara Taylor
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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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• Universal human characteristics are a good base for great art.

  

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• Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.

  

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• Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
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• Because war is a competition involving life and death, and in which national security and vital interests are at stake, establishing an objective other than winning is not only counterproductive, but also irresponsible and wasteful. In some circumstances, it is also unethical.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Life
  • War
  • Death

• I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary.

  

  Deborah Copaken Kogan
  • Book
  • War
  • House

• 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.

  

  Gerald Scarfe
  • War
  • Situation
  • Drawing