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Ben Katchor Quotes

I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: cartoonist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1951

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Strange Never Always Depend Watch

That was sort of the 'Second City' approach, which was try to be intelligent and assume your audience is intelligent. We were influenced by 'Monty Python,' too, which would have philosophers in a wrestling match.

City Intelligent Try Wrestling Your

I've learned that friendship does not equate business, business does not equate friendship.

Friendship Business Learned Does

I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.

Smart Door Enough Go Through Any

Yes, yes, children must early be made to practise piety, godliness, and propriety; a person of good breeding is one into whom 'good maxims' have been instilled and impressed, poured in through a funnel, thrashed in and preached in.

Good Children Early Person Yes Been

We cannot be a civilized society if these terrorists are going to have their ways.

Society Going Cannot Civilized Ways

My retirement, back in 1976, began as a one-year boycott to challenge the media on that question. I refused to return until the media, and radio stations in particular, got a hold on identifiably Canadian songs.

Stompin' Tom Connors

Challenge Retirement Media Back Hold

When you're a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness.

You New Ground Consciousness Break

Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television.

Feel Powerful Television Talk Radio

I'm a big Leonardo DiCaprio fan. And if I could have a career like his... he's amazing. And not only his career, his public persona and how he carries himself.

Amazing Career Big If I Could Fan

Contrary to what many people believe, terrorism is actually a very expensive business.

Loretta Napoleoni

Business People Believe Terrorism

The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.

Jonathan Edwards

Travel Heaven Bias Way Hard Content

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

Douglas Engelbart

Writing Computers Revolution Digital

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