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“If I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits. If I was curious about sex, I would draw pictures of it. There were no books for me to look at. Then I would go find my father's matches to burn the paper”
Source : Interview with Tom Heintjes, cartoonician.com. 1994.
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“Sometimes somebody has an amazing house party and you meet great people and you dance - I've had incredible experiences. But they have been so much fewer than the awful experiences where you're just standing around like, "Why did I come here? We're all just putting on a show for each other and I might as well be in a museum."”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good paying job.”
Source : "Congress Must Act to Prevent Student Loan Rates From Doubling" by Mark Pocan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2013.
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“The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws.”
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“I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.”
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“Life ain't the movies.”
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“We are all proud of having thus contributed to the heretofore magnificent successes of our army.”
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“I need to live like that crooked tree--... that knelt down in the hardest winds but could not be blasted away.”
Source : Edward Hirsch (2009). “Special Orders: Poems”, p.48, Knopf