Chris Ware Quotes
The thing I like most about books is that anybody can afford them. They have an innate valuelessness.
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We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
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I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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For me, the Congress party is now my life, the people of India are my life, and I will fight for the people of India and for this party.
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Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.
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I think everybody can identify, you know, with this sort of struggle to decide for yourself who you are, you know, and what your place in life is.
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I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that's what keeps you alive. That's what keeps you from getting stale.
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I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.
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I think in a lot of situations I had got songs stolen from me, or treated badly.
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I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
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GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.
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I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
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Let's not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let's give importance to the real democracy that's constructed on a day-to-day basis. That's my hopeful perspective on it.
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Getting in and out of a character takes its own time for me.
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Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.
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I don't always want my opinion known. What little privacy I have left I'd like to maintain.
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You don't just end up with freedom when you have the vote. The struggle continues.
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My job as an editor is to gently prod the attention of the audience to look at various parts of the frame. And that - I do that by manipulating how and where I cut and what succession of images I work with.
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Miracles are like meatballs because nobody knows what they are made of, where they came from or how often they should appear.
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Delay not till tomorrow to be wise; tomorrow's sun to thee may neve rise.
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The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow its contribution to the welfare of all.... If every word spoken in behalf of truth has its influence and every deed done for the right weighs in the final account, it is immaterial to the Christian whether his eyes behold victory or whether he dies in the midst of conflict.
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The thing I like most about books is that anybody can afford them. They have an innate valuelessness.
