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Bill Watterson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 5
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I say if a novelty Christmas song is funny one time, then it is funny every time. - Calvin
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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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Having an enviable career is one thing. Being a happy person is another
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There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
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Years from now, when I'm successful and happy, ...and he's in prison... I hope I'm not too mature to gloat.
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Instead of asking what's wrong with rampant consumerism, we ought to be asking, 'What justifies it?' Popular art does not have to pander to the lowest level of intelligence and taste.
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I wish I had more friends, but people are such jerks. If you can just get most people to leave you alone, you're doing good. If you can find even one person you really like, you're lucky. And if that person can also stand you, you're really lucky.
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If you don't get a goodnight kiss, you get Kafka dreams.
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I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal.
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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.
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We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
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I liked things better when I didn't understand them.
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As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a possibility, as I don't even like riding in elevators.
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I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
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Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer... Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?
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Blustery cold days should be spend propped up in bed with a mug of hot chocolate and a pile of comic books.
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The writing doesn't distract me while I'm drawing and vice versa. I can devote my full attention to each.
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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'm not a vegetarian! I'm a dessertarian!
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Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
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