Cliff Chiang Quotes

I've always preferred comics that really rely on visual storytelling. It's what makes comics special. Otherwise, you're better off reading a novel.

Cliff Chiang

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I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.

Jessica Hagedorn

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I cannot, will never, understand these couples who hate each other, who conduct open warfare in front of their children - the kind of people who have to drop the kids off at the end of the driveway in case they lay eyes on one another. At the very least, civility must reign.

John Niven

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Anyway, that was the germ of the idea and of course... you know this was early days of sociology and whatever, especially on television.

Michael Apted

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I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.

John Pople

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I want to go wherever there's great work. I'm a huge fan of film primarily. But you can get a great TV show and get attached to it. Making a great film is forever, though, so I always want to be part of film. It's my first love.

Aml Ameen

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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.

Sri Aurobindo

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The only place you can really find the confidence and the love for yourself is within you, so that has to be what carries you: not all of these external things.

Rumer Willis

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Men are awesome, but they're pretty easy to figure out; women are way more complicated, and way more interesting.

Judy Greer

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I cannot be a placard waver for every campaign; that's why I have mostly kept quiet about gay marriage.

Clare Balding

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With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries.

William Irwin Thompson

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The flavour of something fresh out of the ground is 10 times better than something that's been flown halfway across the world.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

WorldBetterFreshOutGroundBeen

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.

Todd Gitlin

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