Ryan North quote: "The nice thing about Squirrel Girl is that she's smart, and she looks for situations that don't necessarily involve punching people all the time."

I've said this before, but I think one of the reason so many of the cartoonists I know have beco...
RYAN NORTH

I am a big proponent of the pal-centric lifestyle.
RYAN NORTH

Social media has been a great change. It's also a great way to disseminate comics and market the...
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The first mp3 I downloaded, which I guess was illegal, was a symphonic rendering of the Super Mario ...
RYAN NORTH

There's a difference between children's literature and all-ages literature. One is written e...
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The funny thing with Ophelia is that I remembered her being this really cool, awesome female charact...
RYAN NORTH

The fun thing about writing a book with multiple paths and multiple endings is you really get to exp...
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I've always found it funny when people call 'Romeo and Juliet' 'the greatest love st...
RYAN NORTH

I actually put Jubilee in 'Squirrel Girl.' I made it a priority.
RYAN NORTH

It's like jazz: You learn the rules to break them - as long as you can break them in a meaningfu...
RYAN NORTH

Squirrel Girl is basically a Silver Age character in the modern age, and that makes her a fish out o...
RYAN NORTH

My first book, 'To Be or Not To Be,' took 'Hamlet' and converted it to the choose-yo...
RYAN NORTH

It's good to have hobbies.
RYAN NORTH

I used to worry that I had a finite supply of ideas, that I should hold on to each of them in case i...
RYAN NORTH

It's hard to get motivated fixing a compile-time syntax error when you can buy a powder that turns a...
RYAN NORTH

There's only one Squirrel Girl!
RYAN NORTH

Wait... maybe the question isn't "How do I beat him?" Maybe the question in "Dude, why are we even f...
RYAN NORTH

Wait... maybe the question isn't "How do I beat him?" Maybe the question is "Dude, why are we even f...
RYAN NORTH

Our family life was certainly not intellectual.
DOUGLASS NORTH

The really best acting is children in a playground or in a backyard. They're just lost in their ...
NOLAN NORTH

A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fi...
OLIVER NORTH

God knows, we don't want prayer.
OLIVER NORTH

And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen.
OLIVER NORTH

I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that w...
OLIVER NORTH

Vladimir Putin is leading a dying country. Vladimir Putin's regime exports three things: petrole...
OLIVER NORTH

Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Miss...
OLIVER NORTH

I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of th...
OLIVER NORTH

I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
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If you could have imagined that someone is happy that Obama is president, it has to be Jimmy Carter ...
OLIVER NORTH

I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of...
OLIVER NORTH

The Obama administration has turned a blind eye to radical Islam since before they came to office. I...
OLIVER NORTH

As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who ser...
OLIVER NORTH

We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And t...
OLIVER NORTH

The United Nations passed so-called sanctions again on North Korea, and they've said they 'w...
OLIVER NORTH

Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percen...
OLIVER NORTH

The lesson of Pearl Harbor ought never to be forgotten, and of course the motto that came from that,...
OLIVER NORTH

Nothing is going to change the fact that I believe Ronald Reagan is the greatest president in my lif...
OLIVER NORTH

I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea.
OLIVER NORTH

All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers an...
OLIVER NORTH

What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion.
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Jesus Christ is our supreme commander, but He operates only through His word, which is unquestionabl...
GARY NORTH

Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid fo...
GARY NORTH

Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.
GARY NORTH

One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television's coco...
OLIVER NORTH

The Question to be considered is, Whether the Government have reason by a Law, to prohibit the takin...
DUDLEY NORTH

Today it's not culture; it's box office.
ALEX NORTH

There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music.
ALEX NORTH

There are scores you have to write objectively without getting involved.
ALEX NORTH

The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the...
ALEX NORTH

My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.
ALEX NORTH

I prefer to write music for family films. I like people.
ALEX NORTH

I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of ...
ALEX NORTH

Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commer...
ALEX NORTH

Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impos...
ALEX NORTH

Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero.
ALEX NORTH

I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.
OLIVER NORTH

Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law...
GARY NORTH

Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to...
LORD NORTH

Because Naughty Dog relies on their facial team to hand animate the faces of each game character and...
NOLAN NORTH

I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.
OLIVER NORTH

There's the assumption being made by the national security advisers to the Obama administration ...
OLIVER NORTH

We've been in the nation-building business since World War I, and especially since WWII. The goa...
OLIVER NORTH

I studied journalism at The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. I did my graduate work at Em...
NOLAN NORTH

I don't think it makes any difference.
ANDY NORTH

I wouldn't say either of us hit the ball fabulously, but we hit some good shots when we needed to. T...
ANDY NORTH

Post offices are pretty much in every neighborhood and generally much closer than a UPS depot.
ANDY NORTH

Go out and do what he did.
ANDY NORTH

We have had a long-standing relationship with UPS. That's not going to change.
ANDY NORTH

My main goal has always been [to teach you something about] what I do,
ANDY NORTH

My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dis...
DOUGLASS NORTH

I am a person who believes in the good of people and who may have had things influence them to a cer...
NOLAN NORTH

I was clinging to all that had been and, in an ideal world, all that we had hoped for. He, he wanted...
FREYA NORTH

Tell me that you refuse to allow me to be so stupid. Tell me that you will not tolerate this relatio...
FREYA NORTH

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furt...
OLIVER NORTH

I was authorized to do everything that I did.
OLIVER NORTH

When we did the first 'Uncharted,' we weren't able to capture the audio with the perform...
NOLAN NORTH

I'm proud of the versatility I've had since I was in high school, getting in trouble for all...
NOLAN NORTH

In North Korea, grass is a vegetable eaten by the people, and they've got nuclear weapons and in...
OLIVER NORTH

I revel in my anonymity. But when I'm at a specific event and gamers are there, they'll reco...
NOLAN NORTH

The National Security Council's real role is to coordinate the various activities of the governm...
OLIVER NORTH

Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God's sovereignty and disobeyed God's law. ...
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I don't think there's room in video games for people to bring an ego. It's very frustrat...
NOLAN NORTH

I've always had a penchant for dialects. I remember getting detention and being told, 'Have ...
NOLAN NORTH

Laws were made to be broken.
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While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in...
DOUGLASS NORTH

Bill Clinton is not my commander-in-chief.
OLIVER NORTH

What's been happening in Iraq, what young Americans wearing flak jackets, helmets and flight sui...
OLIVER NORTH

But is it a mania? This week, I spoke with a friend who bought a 2,000 square foot house in Orange C...
GARY NORTH

It just shows that he's sort of out of contact with reality; his thinking is unrealistic, which rais...
CHRISTOPHER NORTH

Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more co...
ALEX NORTH

In 'Uncharted,' we do the scenes the same way you would do a film or television show. The mo...
NOLAN NORTH

I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of Americ...
OLIVER NORTH

When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And yo...
OLIVER NORTH

The terrorists that we are up against today do not rely upon cell phones and SAT phones and emails. ...
OLIVER NORTH

I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer
OLIVER NORTH

When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the p...
DOUGLASS NORTH

I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Viet...
OLIVER NORTH

Four or five frigates will do the business without any military force.
LORD NORTH

The development of a political-economic framework to explore long-run institutional change occupied ...
DOUGLASS NORTH

Do you really believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, plans to be a loser in history?
GARY NORTH

This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.
GARY NORTH

I can envision the finished painting before I start. I read occasionally about an artist who says I ...
WILLIAM NORTH

She liked him. She liked the feeling of liking him. She felt light and smiley and too full of excite...
FREYA NORTH

I've found a lot of the thinking in America is that a lot of people become actors to become famo...
NOLAN NORTH

The question eventually must be raised: Is it a criminal offense to take the name of the Lord in vai...
GARY NORTH

So let us be blunt about it: we must use the doctrine of religious liberty to gain independence for ...
GARY NORTH

Didn't you notice, mate? You got the wrong one. He's Iraqi!
OLIVER NORTH

I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do.
OLIVER NORTH

It's not just talking the talk. ? It's walking the walk. The word of God inspires in ways you can't ...
OLIVER NORTH

If you are to give him the whole of Great Britain and Ireland for an estate, he would ask the Isle o...
LORD NORTH

Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades
GARY NORTH

It's when a fruit is growing on a tree and a twig or leaf brushes against the fruit as it's maturing...
WILLIAM NORTH

But the rejections got nicer as I went along. And I let a lot of people read it - not just relatives...
DARDEN NORTH

Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.
OLIVER NORTH

This condition that exists in our harbors is not just a maritime industry problem, it's a problem fo...
GARY NORTH

Renoir was one of the primary people that started the impressionist movement. He roomed with Monet.
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I'm an outdoor painter painting from life. All of my paintings are oil paintings. They are character...
WILLIAM NORTH

I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school.
DOUGLASS NORTH

Basically he's been a terror in the community and a pussycat in custody,
CHRISTOPHER NORTH

I think he has serious difficulty controlling it,
CHRISTOPHER NORTH

I eventually became an actor, starting with doing stand-up comedy in New York and then theater where...
NOLAN NORTH

It's not a persons mistakes which define them - it's the way they make amends.
FREYA NORTH

I've never walked around on the runway in my underwear before.
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I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and...
OLIVER NORTH

There was a time when all the actors were saying, 'We should get residuals on videogames.' I...
NOLAN NORTH

I'm an actor. Whether I'm on stage, in front of a camera or a microphone, what I do is the s...
NOLAN NORTH

None of these people will be put out on the street.
DON NORTH

The facilities were strictly interim.
DON NORTH

The fire is north, south and west.
DON NORTH

It would be much worse for FEMA to be short of ice than to have too much. It's unfair for us to be c...
DON NORTH

There were some pretty solid plans and papers drawn up to establish a democratic media. Once we got ...
DON NORTH

I like to tell people that I have the best job in the media. All I do is hang around with heroes. I ...
OLIVER NORTH

The secret to being unafraid of the darkness is to challenge the darkness to fear you, to raise your...
CLAIRE NORTH

The trick with a truly successful intimidation is not to rely on volume or obscenity, but to cultiva...
CLAIRE NORTH

We don’t have to relive the sad and bad memories of Christmas Past. We can create new Christmas me...
TOM NORTH

The corpsman put the wounded man in the helicopter and made a gesture,
OLIVER NORTH

God knows, we don't want prayer.
OLIVER NORTH

My first motion capture game was with Sony - 'NBA: The Life.' It was very ahead of its time....
NOLAN NORTH

One rich Man hath Lands, not only more than he can manage, but so much, that letting them out to oth...
DUDLEY NORTH

Nor in truth, can Forreign Trade subsist without the Home Trade, both being connected together.
DUDLEY NORTH

The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for...
ALEX NORTH

When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years.
ALEX NORTH

I had hoped to go to law school, but the war started, and because of the strong feeling that I did n...
DOUGLASS NORTH

The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect u...
OLIVER NORTH

Currently she was midway through a bittersweet David Nicholls novel that any other time might well h...
FREYA NORTH

It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing c...
DOUGLASS NORTH

If an agent approached me tomorrow, I'd certainly listen. But if not, I plan to self publish my seco...
DARDEN NORTH

That's when I decided to do the self-publishing thing. The way I look at it is, you have to have con...
DARDEN NORTH

We played as good of a defense as we could play against them. We missed a few tackles, but they're t...
CLAY NORTH

This is like a Lumberjack Conference game. You see certain teams on the schedule like Medford, North...
CLAY NORTH

We didn't like the way we gave up yardage last week, but we liked how the kids played in the red zon...
CLAY NORTH

Our critics so far have been utterly incompetent. How do I know this? Because I know the "soft under...
GARY NORTH

There is only one Bride; God is not a bigamist. He took no gentile wife under the Old Covenant, and ...
GARY NORTH

Christians are supposed to love each other. Communists are supposed to share bonds with all proletar...
GARY NORTH

Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to i...
ALEX NORTH

Today it's not culture; it's box office.
ALEX NORTH

A lot of people in California garden in the nude, but there are naturists all over the country.
JAY NORTH

She didn't want to be reminded of her past or how different her present was from the future she'd ta...
FREYA NORTH

Have you ever or are you now involved in espionage or sabotage, or in terrorist activities, or genoc...
CLAIRE NORTH

In 1789 the French rebelled and found an emperor. The Americans found their freedom from the British...
CLAIRE NORTH

The honeymoon period of (Wells Fargo) we knew was going to have an impact.
MARK NORTH

Some of my bigger goals are building relationships and proving myself as someone who's going to be a...
MARK NORTH

I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have ow...
DOUGLASS NORTH

I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s.
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I was opposed to World War II, and indeed on June 22, 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union I su...
DOUGLASS NORTH

I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to...
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I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly ...
DOUGLASS NORTH

My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.
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My wife and I now live in the summers in northern Michigan in an environment which is wonderfully co...
DOUGLASS NORTH

What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the...
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My father had not even completed high school when he started as an office boy working for the Metrop...
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My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War ...
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It may be said, let him take Money at Interest, and not buy at Time. But then Men must be found, tha...
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So that it cannot be denied, but the lowering of Interest may, and probably will keep some Money fro...
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It is said, that in Holland Interest is lower than in England.
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No Man is richer for having his Estate all in Money, Plate, etc. lying by him, but on the contrary, ...
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Trade is nothing else but a Commutation of Superfluities; for instance: I give mine, what I can spar...
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You say 'love' too easily, Kepler."
"No, not rally - please don't call me that. The idea that l...
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We are making it work. It is becoming an effective people-moving transit system.
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This game will be our second game in four weeks. We have practiced 5-6 weeks to play three games, an...
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A team's record is comparative to the teams you play and Dresden has played very good competition.
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I pushed very hard for him to take the job. He was with me as an assistant for a few years prior and...
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All the bad publicity they brought down on us, yes, it came, and yes, it hurt us—for a day. That�...
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Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.
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It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. Wh...
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Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibili...
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
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In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it ...
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Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.
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It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
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Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder...
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No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idea...
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Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.
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Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
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Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.
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The nice thing about Squirrel Girl is that she's smart, and she looks for situations that don't necessarily involve punching people all the time.

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