Jeff MacNelly Quotes

Political cartoonists get hung up on daily deadlines and the front page. The worst thing you can do is open up the newspaper and ask, 'What's funny about this?'

Jeff MacNelly

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: cartoonist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 17, 1947 - June 8, 2000

Topics

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If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

Jimmy Carter

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Once Playboy came to me, all the preachers ran. I needed to pose in Playboy to make money.

Jessica Hahn

MoneyMePoseMakePreachersOnce

I used to jump out of airplanes. I was a member of the 101st Airborne Division. When parachuting, you never look down at the ground. You feel for it with your legs. Your knees are your shock absorbers - you cannot tighten them. Same as skiing.

Jesse White

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What is beautiful enchants me. I mean not just physical beauty but a wider concept of beauty. There is beauty in poetry and in great musical or singing performances. There is beauty everywhere if you can just see it.

Andrea Bocelli

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Most of the good executives do pretty well. Because to be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.

John Milius

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When I teach and meet a class for the first time, you realize that there are people there that have exceptional abilities or have the potential to do exceptional things and you never know who those people are. My job is to provide the best information I can.

John Sexton

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There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.

Stanley Kubrick

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I was never one for the passenger seat. I have always wanted my level of entertainment and showmanship to be the same as a frontman.

Tommy Lee

EntertainmentNeverSameAlwaysSeat

I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness.

Tom Cochrane

LonelinessBelieveAnxietyI Believe

I'm a keen musician. Me and my mates have a great times jamming and recording stuff. We have a great band behind us and have turned my nursery-rhyme songs into quite credible pieces of music.

Tom Felton

MusicGreatMeBandPiecesUs

Fashion is this obsessive narrative that people don't understand but they can't stop looking at.

Rita Ora

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We made part of the record in Miami, and I would go down to the beach, and not 20 feet from the water I see a fish that is at least seven feet long swimming close to the shore. I did not go back in the ocean the entire month.

Michael Stipe

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