Lynda Barry Quotes

Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid.

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• Both sides were supposed to release all their prisoners, those were unconditional. There was some prisoner release that took place but it's not been satisfactory.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Place
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• As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.

  

  Ted Cruz
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  • Mother
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• Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.

  

  Kailash Kher
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• I don't ever want to be like a peasant. I want to always be all right. But motivation is fans - not your kids, your mum, none of that. All of that matters, but number one is your fans.

  

  Young Thug
  • Kids
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  • Always

• I'm saying, Come on, the global warming thing? How did the ice melt during the ice ages? Was the dinosaurs driving SUVs around back then?

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Driving
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• I think a lot more people are starting to understand the power of YouTube.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • People
  • Power
  • Starting

• Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself. I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette, but if I do, then within that, I can be creative.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Long
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• Us comics guys tend to get really good at the things we draw a lot. I'm good at creepy old forests, Victorian houses, underground goblin cities, and beautiful but creepy fairies.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Good
  • Beautiful
  • Old

• I'd see an old person on the street and start crying. I couldn't understand how people could cope, knowing they only had so long left. It would be like dominoes and then the last one fell and I'm a little heap on the floor. Doctors put me on anti-depressants for a couple of years.

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Long
  • Couple

• I have a terrible tendency to lick my fingers when I cook. So much so that I got a telling off from my pastry teacher years ago, who said it would hinder my prospects.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Teacher
  • Years
  • Said

• To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • God
  • Better
  • Impossible

• To me, writing an ongoing series feels like driving a freight train downhill. All you can do is steer and pray.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Writing
  • Driving
  • Train

• I got all my politics and culture and my sense of the great wide world of adults from 'Mad Magazine.' But all other comic books literally gave me a headache.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Great
  • Culture

• The best thing I've learned is that you have to listen to your body, and you have to be your own physician. Don't ignore those little groaning aches and pains.

  

  Valerie Cruz
  • Best
  • Body
  • Ignore

• I have the best husband a wife could possibly have. He's the best father my children could have.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Children
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  • Wife

• So I have four daughters, about ten granddaughters, and five grandsons.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Four
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  • Five

• Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.

  

  Walter Kerr
  • People
  • World
  • Clever

• The role of an actor is to make every character believable.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Character
  • Actor
  • Role

• Wherever there's money, there's drugs, so to say drugs don't exist in the NBA would be stupid.

  

  Dennis Rodman
  • Money
  • Stupid

• I was in the Marine Corps in 1971. The idea 'Where does authority come from?' is fascinating to me. And also, the idea of a chaplain is fascinating to me because it's a man of the cloth in uniform, and it's the uniform of a killing machine. Back when I was in the Corps, when I saw that, I was amazed by it.

  

  John Patrick Shanley
  • Marine

• Generally, I read nonfiction. There's very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

  

  Peter Morgan
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Reading

• I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.

  

  Adele
  • Heart
  • Write
  • Broken

• If you think your lot has been hard, read 'Up From Slavery' by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate you have been.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Up
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• Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid.

  

  Lynda Barry
  • Stupid