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People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.

~Gary Larson

Topics: Basically Cartoons Current Current Events Deep Down Drawing Events Folks Gee Get Getting Ideas Just Laugh Look Meanings Other People React Read Say Shallow Silly Sitting Sound Stimuli Table Try Tv Want Watch Work You

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My folks were drunks, and I had a rough childhood - really rough - in fact, rougher than I thought about.

~Gary Paulsen

Topics: About Childhood Drunks Fact Folks Had In Fact Really Rough Than Thought Were

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If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street - and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds - don't have a bad memory. They don't have any memory at all.

~Gary Weiss

Topics: Above Any Bad Dead Folks Funds Hedge Invest Memory Regulate Short Short Memory Street Think Wall Wall Street Who Work Wrong You

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Take responsibility. Step up and step in. Because at the end of the day, folks, we are our behaviors.

~Gavin Newsom

Topics: Because Behaviors Day End End Of The Day Folks Our Responsibility Step Take Up

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If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.

~Gavin Newsom

Topics: Day Doing Doing The Right Thing End End Of The Day Folks Glass Hackers Hacking Hat Living Neighborhood Question Resolve Right Right Thing Secrets Technology The Right Thing Thing White Wikileaks

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You draw a district for that particular minority - African American, Asian, Hispanic - so those folks have the right to elect whoever they want. If they don't decide to elect someone who sounds like them or looks like them, they can pick anyone they want.

~Gene Green

Topics: African African American American Anyone Asian Decide District Draw Elect Folks Hispanic Like Looks Minority Particular Pick Right Someone Sounds Them Those Want Who Whoever You

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We have lots of students graduating from our high schools, and you import the labor, then we're not giving that opportunity to our own folks.

~Gene Green

Topics: Folks Giving Graduating High High Schools Import Labor Lots Opportunity Our Own Schools Students Then You

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People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm, where folks don't have faith that things will get better because history and circumstances have proven over 30, 40, or 50 years that things don't get better.

~Geoffrey Canada

Topics: Because Believe Better Circumstances Community Faith Folks Get History Hope Hopelessness Lose Norm Over People Proven Things Understand Where Whole Will Years You

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When I began working in not-for-profits, it was taking a vow of poverty, which eliminated huge numbers of folks.

~Geoffrey Canada

Topics: Began Eliminated Folks Huge Numbers Poverty Taking Vow Which Working

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One of the things about being a minority actor is that you don't have that opportunity as some of your counterparts to keep that flow, to constantly be going from one thing to the other, so when you see really great performances out there by some black folks, you know it's coming from somewhere deep, because they just don't work as much.

~Georg Stanford Brown

Topics: About Actor Because Being Black Coming Constantly Counterparts Deep Flow Folks Going Great Just Keep Know Minority Much One Of The Things One Thing Opportunity Other Out Performance Really See Some Somewhere Thing Things Work You Your

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