Ted Rall Quotes
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.
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Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
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I have two homes in Malibu, a home in Canada that I'm building, and I just love pouring my heart out into this part of my life.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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For the most part, I don't care about what everyone else is doing, or what is popular.
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I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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I think what's wrong with the fashion world, particularly men's fashion, is the lack of creativity behind it.
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It's a comforting thought to know that I've got my partner by my side walking through life and all the ups and the downs. I know we can handle it. There's nothing too big or too crazy that's going to tear us apart.
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Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
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My journalistic mission was straightforward: to await the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Nobody knew quite when this would be. But the diplomacy - the meetings in the U.N. security council, the allegations about weapons of mass destruction, the martial language of Tony Blair and George W. Bush - all suggested a war was brewing.
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Great cities are not like towns, only larger. They are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of them is that cities are, by definition, full of strangers.
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I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
