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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.

Career day High school Cartoon guy
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Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.

Humans Ecosystems History Life
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I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.

Head Start twisting Envisioning
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I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.

Think Important Fear Always doubting
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My future plans are hazy, and I've yet to experience how much cartooning is in my blood and therefore how much I'll miss it. But I have some other interests, especially in music, and I will probably take the opportunity to delve into those things more deeply.

Future plans Hazy Experience Cartooning
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

Cartooning Good fit Never think
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I didn't want to go to school for more than four years, and I didn't know what you did with a bachelor's in biology. So I switched over and got my degree in communications. I regret it now. It was one of the most idiotic things I ever did.

School Four years Communications
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I didn't feel that my identity was caught up in being a cartoonist, and that if it stopped I'd stop.

Feel My identity Caught up Cartoonist
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As a kid I used to raise snakes. Obviously, my social life was a bit down at the time. But it took me a while to realize that with an interest like that people are going to think there's something wrong with you.

Kid Raise snake Social life Interest
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If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?

Tell Truth Start talking
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I don't like giving speeches. It makes me nervous.

Giving speech Nervous
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What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.

Any Earlier Form Internal
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The thing I love about making movies is the peace of mind that I know I don't have to be perfect the first time. I can be perfect the second time or the third time.

Love Making movies Peace Mind
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Pride is not the worst of sins. In fact, it's one of the most interesting ones.

Pride Worst Sins Interesting ones
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What we learned quite early on is what was really important to early British pop that we produced-and this is where we were distinct from almost everybody else in this respect-is that it had to reflect exactly what the audience wanted us to say.

Almost Audience British Distinct
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When I'm not working on something, I seem to go through periods of depression. It helps to keep busy.

Working on Period Depression Keep busy
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Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.

Bob Did Dylan First
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Some of our early work was two minutes twenty when it actually came out on vinyl, very, very, very short. Sometimes if you made a three-minute record they would make you do an edited version for radio, particularly in America.

Actually America Came Early
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What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.

Always Back Because Character
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I want to do what I can lend my talents to, but I want it to be as a human being and not as a two-dimensional character.

Talent Human being Character
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The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.

Accompany Any Dramatic Itself
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Which one of us, anywhere in the world, doesn't yearn to be believed when the audience is watching?

World Yearn to Believe Watching
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I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.
Interested Only Passage Rites
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I trust if your life is right, the right things will happen at the right time. If the chords are in harmony inside, I think other things will happen in the same way. That sounded highfalutin' to me once, but I believe it now.

Trust Your life Happen Right time
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I only really started to go to plays and to be interested in drama 20 years ago when as an artist I was already well-rounded. I think I'm more disciplined today.

Artist Disciplined Drama Go
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When your mother gives you confidence about anything that you do, you carry that confidence with you.

Mother Confidence Anything Do
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The world is not based on fairness. Human beings can rise to fairness, can administer something that makes it fair or just. But that's not God.

The world Based on Fairness Human being
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A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.

Audience Continue Lot Me
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If the physical thing you're doing is funny, you don't have to act funny while doing it...Just be real and it will be funnier

Physical thing Funny Be real
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I think I probably would have enjoyed to keep my own private pain out of my work. But I was changed by my audience who said your private pain which you have unwittingly shown us in your early songs is also ours.

Also Audience Changed Early
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I said something really stupid once. I told a friend that my mother was so beautiful, but my dad was ugly. My dad heard it and just laughed it off, but I felt guilty. It haunted me for years. I should never have said that.

Something really Beautiful
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I'm going to tell you what my religion is. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Tell you Religion Do unto Others
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I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track.

Write funny Wife laugh Right track
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I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while.
Funny Camera In life
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I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.

Never thought God Believe Devils
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. s

Everyone Genius Year Bright ideas
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Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
Man loves Small Burning candle
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Person reveals Character Joke Resents
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One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

One must Judge men Opinions
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Men still have to be governed by deception.

Men Governed Deception
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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

In love Advantage Encounter Rivals
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We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.
Remember Observe nature
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The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

Fly Swatted Secure Lights
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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

Opposite Something Imitation
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Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.
Nothing can Contribute Peace Soul
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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

Nothing makes Old Thought Growing older
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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
Virtue Premeditation Worth much
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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Sure conviction Reason Good minds
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Whether at work, at home or in public, we have been trained to believe that who we are at the core of our being is often unacceptable. As a result, we work diligently to live up to - and sometimes down to - what others have made us out to be, whether or not it is an accurate reflection of who we are.

Accurate Been Being Believe
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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

We accumulate Opinion Age
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