Ted Rall Quotes
The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone's apartment and they don't know you, but they've taped one of your pieces up.
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
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There are two sides to being pregnant. There is the beautiful, wonderful blessing side. The second side - it sucks!
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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It's up to the audience. It always has been.
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I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that.
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But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
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How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.
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I have two sisters, and we are the best of friends.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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Like I went out to a predominantly black club last night and nobody said anything and I was wishing somebody would so that someone would dance with me.
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Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
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Never give the devil a ride! He will always want to drive!
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I don't hate redheads! The millionaire men - wealthy men - never pick them. Every time I offer them they say no. I could say the most gorgeous redhead in the world and they'll say no, they don't want it. Now if you ask an Irish guy in Ireland, he says 'yes,' because that's indigenous to that country.
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I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.
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When I think about voting, I can skip it and still see myself as a good citizen. But when I think about being a voter, now the choice reflects on my character. It casts a shadow.
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To win you've got to stay in the game.
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The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone's apartment and they don't know you, but they've taped one of your pieces up.
