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Bill Watterson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 5
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Yeah, but actually, I've got the same questions about God.
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But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He's one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!
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I'll bet my autopsy reveals my mouth is too big.
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My guess is that the editor [Cincinnati Post] wanted his own Jeff MacNelly (a Pulitzer winner at 24), and I didn't live up to his expectations. My Cincinnati days were pretty Kafkaesque.
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I wonder where we go when we die?” “…Pittsburgh?” “You mean if we’re good or if we’re bad?
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I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.
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I'd hate to have a kid like me.
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Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles.
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Calvin: Trick or treat! Adult: Where's your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak... Am I scary, or what?
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It must be hard to cook if you anthropomorphisize your vegetables.
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I chose to tell the story visually, so that anyone of any age, from any country, could understand it.
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I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.
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I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life...procrastinating and rationalizing.
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I played in rock bands in college and then right out of college I moved over to Europe and lived in Ireland for about four years playing in indie rock bands. I love and miss being in a band, I still am in a band but pursuing that as a career I definitely missed it but I felt like that ship had sailed.
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The more words you have at your disposal, the more precisely you can express yourself.
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Good friends are hard to come by... I need more money.
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You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.
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I always think of Popeye and Barney Google as quintessential comic strips in that old rollicky, slapstick way we've sort of lost.
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No sport is less organized than Calvinball.
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I'm related to people I don't relate to.
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