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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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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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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I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball.
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Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
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The film [Django] really has a lot of ups and downs, and taps into a lot of different emotions. To me, the trick was balancing all those emotions, so that I could get you where I wanted you to be by the very end. I wanted the audience cheering in triumph at the end.
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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
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I want the last cheque I write to bounce.
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Watch me when people say deaf and dumb, or deaf mute, and I give them a look like you might get if you called Denzel Washington the wrong name.
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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.
