"I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal."
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"I've just been writing a column about the way in which Fallujah and New Orleans are looking to be twin towns in effect. They're both been worked over by the Bush Administration."
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"I don't think that I'm a top 40 artist in any way. So I don't think I'm that mainstream."
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"I went through a huge transition in my life where everything and everyone I knew and trusted didn't turn out to be that way."
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"My goal is to teach readers how to treat and respect themselves and each other in an entertaining way. I do that in all of my books."
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"Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights."
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"Having worked my way from the bottom of the ladder to the top [of the UN] certainly helped me navigate that complexity, both political and bureaucratic."
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"If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down."
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"I'm way too disorganized."
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"I like the Internet as place to get instant gratification: posting a comic online is the quickest way to get attention for your art, but I have been talking to a lot of younger, aspiring cartoonists who very quickly get discouraged if they aren't getting a lot of attention immediately. This can also be aggravated by artists who appear to be really quickly Tumblr-famous, and get lots of notes on their work."
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"He will not succeed in this," Taran said. "Somehow, we must find a way to escape. We dare not lose hope." "I agree absolutely," Fflewddur answered. "Your general idea is excellent; it's only the details that are lacking."
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"I probably believe in God in a non-denominational way."
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"I just don't feel like - I've never felt like - part of the entertainment industry. I still just feel like I'm trying to work my way in. And that's weird."
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"Without being good enough, I started figuring out how to make my way through the minefield of a script, which is what it was to me at the time, and the rest is semi-history."
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"I've got at least one tiny corner of the universe I can make just the way I want it."
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"I now believe that the only way in which Americans can rise above their ordinariness, can mature sufficiently to rescue themselves and to help rescue their planet, is through enthusiastic intimacy with works of their own imagination."
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"Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself."
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"There is no way a beautiful woman can live up to what she looks like for any appreciable length of time."
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"He became fubar in the classic way, which is to say that he was the victim of a temporary arrangement that became permanent."
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"There are lots of things worth doing that are no way to make a living. They are agreeable ways to make a more agreeable life."
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