Chris Ware Quotes
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During workouts, I listen to Pandora, and I like the '90s pop stations. 'The Backstreet Boys' is fun!
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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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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
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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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I always practise penalties, but what people don't understand is that you can never recreate that pressure situation that you're under.
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I just think it's sad that the main places in our culture that we designate to meet new people are bars and nightclubs.
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IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.
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A lot of my words come to me when I'm out and about as well, riding the bus or sat in the pub. I went through a stage of going to a strip bar called the White Horse at lunch times and did a lot of writing in there. They were fine with that but I don't know how they would feel about me setting up the easel.
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I think it's cool to come out of somewhere where you're being pushed into this mold and then you figure out in that who you are.
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The real power of comics is writing as you draw.
