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When you make your peace with authority, you become authority. 
Make measurable progress in reasonable time. 
Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws. 
I was in and out of comas until I was nine and I would lose entire days and weeks. The novelty of be... 
I stop short of being a workaholic. 
I was very happy and honored to create the Professor Garfield Foundation with Ball State to make rea... 
As we celebrate President Reagan's remarkable career and historic legacy, we also celebrate a ma... 
Where's your will to be weird? 
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job. 
My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where t... 
Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn't eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Se... 
I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserv... 
Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articl... 
Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I ... 
There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most ... 
Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals. 
There was something special and unique about the love triangle that existed between Clark Kent, Supe... 
A liberal will cut off your leg so he can hand you a crutch. 
Embryonic stem cell research will prolong life, improve life and give hope for life to millions of p... 
Narrative has been part of human consciousness for a long time. And if it has played a part in all t... 
You can't be unhappy in the middle of a big, beautiful river. 
The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in o... 
Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action. 
I would love to have a role with the Browns. I think that's what every ex-player would like to d... 
Boundary setting is really a huge part of time management. 
The first time I drew a Superman story was 'For Tomorrow' with Brian Azzarello in 2004. It d... 
The financial report makes it very clear that if we got into honest budgeting today, that in fact we... 
Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years. 
Mr. Speaker, we have reached a point in history where some have forgotten that it is the family, not... 
Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger aroun... 
A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly... 
Success and money can really be quite blinding. 
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress. 
Then a neighbor, Mr Smith, had a dairy cow and an couple bulls. He showed me how to bluff a bull. 
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in ... 
There's a trend toward anti-heroes now, and I think it goes back to guys like Bogart and Cagney.... 
When you start a novel, it is always like pushing a boulder uphill. Then, after a while, to mangle t... 
Mr. Chairman, on September 11, we were attacked by terrorists who took advantage of weaknesses in ou... 
Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and... 
Not one country in existence today has had the same borders and government for as long as two hundre... 
School prepares you for the real world... which also bites. 
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me. 
You can have everything in the world, but if you don't have love, none of it means crap," he said pr... 
You get lonely, is what it is. A person's not supposed to go through life with absolutely nobody. It... 
If you can look back on your life with contentment, you have one of man's most precious gifts -- a s... 
There are some people who knock the pyramids because they don't have elevators. 
I never thought I didn't have a card to play. 
Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best. 