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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
-
Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
-
If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
-
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.'
-
Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
-
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.'
-
There are two sides to being pregnant. There is the beautiful, wonderful blessing side. The second side - it sucks!
-
As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
-
It's up to the audience. It always has been.
-
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.
-
But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
-
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.
-
I have two sisters, and we are the best of friends.
-
You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
-
Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips.
-
When there was a fight in school, because I was the tall one, the teachers would say, 'I know you were there. I could see you.'
-
I used to just sit in the living room and make up songs on the keyboard.
-
Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say.
-
Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
-
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.
