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Chuck Jones Quotes

We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: September 21, 1912 - February 22, 2002

Topics

Change Innovation Art Useless Must

War today is such a more visible thing. We see it on television, on CNN. In 1914, war was a concept.

Today War Television More See Thing

When US-led forces toppled the Taliban government in November 2001, Afghans celebrated the downfall of a reviled and discredited regime.

Government Downfall Forces Taliban

The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.

Sonia Sotomayor

Family Truth Myself Childhood Me

There's this idea that when you make a certain amount of money that you should be staying at four-star hotels and taking town cars. And believe me, I will take a town car every day, but there are some things where it's like, 'Is this necessary? Is this important?'

Car Money Day Me Believe You

Comedy writers have the most fragile egos.

Comedy Fragile Most Egos Writers

Iowa is an amazing place. But I didn't have much race around me. I was definitely not like everyone there.

Amazing Me Place Race Everyone Iowa

We are fighting for an open and fair economy. We are fighting for the consumer. Someone needs to.

Fighting Someone Fair Economy Open

People always ask what a book is about, as if it has to be about something. I don't want to write books that lend themselves to that sort of description. My books are more a kind of breaking-down.

Jonathan Safran Foer

People Book Want Kind More Write

It boggles my mind that the same people who cry 'foul' about rationing an instant later argue to reduce health care benefits for the needy, to defund crucial programs of care and prevention, and to shift thousands of dollars of annual costs to people - elders, the poor, the disabled - who are least able to bear them.

Health People Mind Care Prevention

I've got $130 million in the bank and a whiteboard full of cool ideas for emerging markets and technologies where we're gonna test the waters and see what happens.

Ideas Cool Test Bank See Where

I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.

Armistead Maupin

Fiction Shelter Prefer Tend

When Texans suffered from the collapse of the oil market in the 1980s, they could rely on the fiscal union to help them. When Texas boomed with rising oil prices in the 2000s, it contributed to the union to help harder hit regions.

Austan Goolsbee

Texas Help Oil Rising Union Market

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