Lynda Barry Quotes
Whenever I do a book, I'm usually guided by a question or something that I'm trying to tease out.
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!
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The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.
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It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.
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At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.
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I don't know much about football. I know what a goal is, which is surely the main thing about football.
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My song-writing has always been just about my life - usually my worst moments.
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I have a biology degree, okay?
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It's a dream when some people think that once you give your life to God, all of a sudden things are perfect. That's not the case. We live in a world that's broken, where there's disease, where people are selfish. The foundation of your faith helps you know how to put that in proper perspective.
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Washington politicians think that government can make better decisions than you and me. But we know better. We know it's smaller, less intrusive government that will lead to real economic prosperity. We know it's business-friendly policies, not more red tape, that will create real growth.
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I know, for me, when I was depressed, I didn't want to talk to my friends at all when I was depressed. If they tried to help me, I would kind of back away from them.
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Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.
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Genius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius must consider itself as above the law, for it is the task of genius to remake the law; moreover the man who frees himself from his time and place may take everything, hazard everything, for everything is his by right.
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Whenever I do a book, I'm usually guided by a question or something that I'm trying to tease out.
