Jeff MacNelly Quotes

That really has been my message over the years: 'Hey, we're all in this together, so let's laugh about it a little, please.' It adds perspective to an argument if you know where you're coming from.

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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I'm not an angry man.

Joe Cornish

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I drive past the Mad Men billboard every day and I can't believe I'm on that show.

Jessica Pare

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Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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'The Last Five Years' is this quintessential piece, and every song is an actor's song, and every song is incredibly difficult and incredibly powerful and incredibly amazing. It was one of those things in college where, like, you gauged how good you were by how well you were able to pull off a song from 'The Last Five Years.'

Jeremy Jordan

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Chinese people of my parents' generation who lived through the Cultural Revolution knew so much of death at such a young age, and the psychic toll those experiences left was immense. I knew the stories of the Cultural Revolution before knowing what the Cultural Revolution was.

Jenny Zhang

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The thing that's depressing is teaching graduate students today and discovering that they don't know simple elemental facts of grammar. They really do not know how to scan a line; they've never been taught to scan a line. Many of them don't know the difference between 'lie' and 'lay,' let alone 'its' and 'it's.' And they're in graduate school!

Maxine Kumin

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We don't tell New Zealanders we can stop the global recession, because we can't. What we do tell them is we can use this time to transform the economy to make us stronger so that when the world starts growing again we can be running faster than other countries we compete with.

John Key

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People sometimes have a very hard time accepting change.

John Zorn

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Evolution, cell biology, biochemistry, and developmental biology have made extraordinary progress in the last hundred years - much of it since I was weaned on schoolboy biology in the 1930s. Most striking of all is the sudden eruption of molecular biology starting in the 1950s.

John Tyler Bonner

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I'm a liberal inside a liberal's body.

Ana Gasteyer

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Golf course design is exciting.

Tom Kite

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Radio is so heavily programmed; you have to fit into a certain box. So it's harder for anything different to get through.

Roger Taylor

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