Chris Ware Quotes
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Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends in which the commodification of people was de rigueur.
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You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.
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The administrative control of the government remains everywhere. You can't have a government within the country and not have control over everything that's happening in the country... Even in the Election Commission there is some extent of administrative control.
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
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A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
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Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.
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I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
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The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
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I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
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Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.
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I'm not that moody. I don't have big ups and downs.
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Across the world, on your phone, everybody gets the same list of things to read, listen to, and watch.
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A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.
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I think there are many ways to be brave and that being brave and vulnerable in terms of a romantic situation is one of the hardest things to do in real life.
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With my own group I like to keep it loose. They have to counter rather than go with me. When they stop I like to be moving.
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I will watch a movie that is quote unquote dark and not get the qualification of what is dark and what is not.
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The real power of comics is writing as you draw.
