Pat Oliphant Quotes
I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.
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The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.
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I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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I do feel I'm responsible to carrying on the music. That's what I was charged with as a kid. When I was a little girl, I was told, 'When we are gone' - when you're a kid, you never think they'll ever be gone - 'you have to keep the music alive, the Carter Family songs, and add your own songs.'
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.
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Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.
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I eat a lot of chocolate.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
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This is something that I witnessed out on the campaign trail for three years, which is that there is a total disconnect between the rhetoric regarding immigration and the reality. And I'm speaking as a border state.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
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I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.
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You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.
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If I'd done a quarter of the things of which I'm accused, I'd be pickled in alcohol, I'd be a registered drug addict and would have sired half the children in the world's cricket-playing countries
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We should enjoy and make the most of life, not because we are in constant fear of what might happen to us in a mythical afterlife, but because we have only one opportunity to live.
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I've talked to some drummers who seem to have a very hard time staying in shape on the road, including some drummers touring with high-profile acts that don't have to live on fast food every night.
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I was not only typecast as a Russian, but I was typecast as Yakov Smirnoff. This is understandable, and I was very happy to get the roles, but it would be nice to be in a movie where I could be someone else.
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I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.
