Ted Rall Quotes
Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
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I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
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Examine the history of China for 2,000 years back, and then compare it with the Western history of fifty years! Does the government of these foreign countries present such a record of generosity, benevolence, loyalty, and honesty as ours?
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We care about margins.
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Politics is largely a matter of heart.
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In my own life, I've seen myself ramping up the amount of text I consume digitally. For me, it's the weight and inconvenience issue – I want anything that will spare me having to carry around reams of paper.
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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
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Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.
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People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'
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I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.
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The body is the one thing you have to say goodbye to. You can hold on to your memories. You can hold on to the spirit. That's part of the package that you love and the part that comforts you.
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We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?
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It was really fascinating for everyone involved in 'Fargo' that Marge Gunderson became the iconic character she did. I think it was something about the cultural zeitgeist and what was happening with women in the workplace.
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Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
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My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.
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I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.
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No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.
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Rise early. Fix a time-table to which you must try to keep. One seldom regrets having made an early start, but one always regrets having set off too late; first for reasons of safety-the adage 'it is later than you think is very true in the mountains-but also because of the strange beauty of the moment: the day comes to replace the night, the peaks gradually lighten, it is the hour of mystery but also of hope. Setting off by lantern-light, witnessing the birth of a new day as one climbs to meet the sun, this is a wonderful experience
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For the longest time, the way that I had understood 4chan was this idea that the lack of an archive made the content really ephemeral, and it took me a while, but I finally realized that that's just totally wrong.
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Believe in yourself. You are enough.
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The truth of love is the truth of the universe: it is the lamp of the soul that reveals the secrets of darkness
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The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.
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Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
