Pat Oliphant Quotes
Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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I always regret leaving home if I don't get at least four or five surfs in the week before I leave. I try to be in the water as much as possible before leaving, and it's the one thing I miss massively.
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I'm like John Q. Public. I represent what every guy wants and needs.
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
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For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
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I'm a big fan of Katy Perry.
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Chicken... I am a black man, we love our chicken, but I don't eat it anymore. My genotype means I don't process it as well as other things. But I eat lamb twice a week; that is a super food for me.
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We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.
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I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.
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I think I'm very old-fashioned.
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I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.
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Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.
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I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.
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I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
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Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy.
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Even if I did give a good talk, is what I have to say more important and interesting than what Colin Powell said?
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High school is the time to find yourself and to explore with fashion and create your own identity.
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In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It's sure been tough on my nails.
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The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.
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Right now, my job is that I'm like an ambulance chaser. I've got to look for movies with white guys falling out of them.
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I wasn't known as a neighborhood tough or anything like that. But yeah, I was, like, a scrappy kid. You know, I kind of kept to myself, you know?
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The world of the Greeks illustrates why visual appearances cannot interest people before the interiorization of alphabetic technology. (p. 61)
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Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.
