Chris Ware Quotes
I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right.
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you – and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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No man may make another free.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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I can't cook to save my life.
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Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private.
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I want my soldiers - I mean artists - to be young and strong, with tireless energy performing impossible feats of cunning and bravura.
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I played cello in my high school orchestra.
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The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.
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I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right.
