Jules Feiffer Quotes

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.

Jules Feiffer

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SkyRedBluePeopleStupidThink

In order to satirize adequately, I think you need to bring people down to Earth and be like, 'Yeah, these people drink coffee and have tummy troubles and they go to the bathroom like anybody else, and they all have relationship problems, if they even have relationships.'

Anna Chlumsky

RelationshipCoffeePeopleThinkYou

I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.

Ann Patchett

WritingBookThinkWillWriteSell

We all know about secrets - to have that pressure of something you can't reveal. That's universal: 'Am I safe? Am I gonna be OK? Will my family still love and respect me?'

Jeffrey Tambor

FamilyLoveRespectMePressureYou

I have a pretty good idea of what I am not good at and have it front and centre of my consciousness every minute I am doing it.

Meryl Streep

GoodI AmDoingConsciousnessPretty

Don't you hate when your hand falls asleep and you know it will be up all night.

Steven Wright

HateNightYouKnowWillHand

Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is.

Jason Silva

IdeasWorldPowerfulSeeUsBecause

When America is united, America is totally unstoppable.

Donald Trump

AmericaUnitedUnstoppableTotally

There are only three integral views of the world: the religious, the materialistic, and the Islamic. They reflect three elemental possibilities (conscience, nature, and man), each of them manifesting itself as Christianity, materialism, and Islam.

Alija Izetbegovic

NatureManWorldPossibilitiesThree

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.

Wislawa Szymborska

NatureTimeMyselfI AmWorldThink

We are living toward incredible times where the only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.

Peter Diamandis

ChangeLivingWhereOnlyIncredible

The majority of Aboriginals do not want handouts because they realise that welfare is killing them.

Pauline Hanson

WantWelfareBecauseMajorityThem

I like to think that people who really know me understand I am the same person - and that is something I will always fight to maintain. Obviously the money is there, but I want to stay the same. At the same time, I want my son to enjoy what I didn't have. My father-in-law often looks at all the toys and games Benjamin has.

Sergio Aguero

SonTimeMoneyFightI AmPeople

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