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Even when you look for it, you're never prepared for it.

Bill Watterson

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Bill Watterson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 5
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Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.
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Hobbes: What are you doing? Calvin: Being cool. Hobbes: You look more like you're being bored. Calvin: The world bores you when you're cool. Hobbes: Look, I brought a sombrero! Now we can both be cool. Calvin: A sombrero?! Are you crazy?! Cool people don't wear sombreros! Hobbes: What fun is it being cool if you can't wear a sombrero?
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I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
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I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man's destruction of forests. . . . Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
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It seems the less I do and say, the better everyone likes my work!
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Miss Wormwood: Calvin, your test was an absolute disgrace! It's obvious you haven't read any of the material. Our first president was not Chef Boy-Ar-Dee and you ought to be ashamed to have turned in such preposterous answers! Calvin: I just don't test well.
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Verbing weirds language.
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If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?
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Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask yourself questions about what makes life truthful, purposeful, meaningful, and redeeming, you have the Swiss Army Knife of mental tools, and it's going to come in handy all the time.
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I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
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The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
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We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.
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I'm learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework...procrastinating and negotiation.
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Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development. I assume they're either homages or satiric riffs, and are not intended to be taken too seriously as works in their own right. Otherwise I should be talking to a copyright lawyer.
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It's psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I'll get a saw.
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I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word 'booger' in a newspaper comic strip.
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Too often cartoonists just look at other cartoonists and, after a lot of inbreeding, everyone has the same funny look. The challenge of drawing is that there is no one right way to visually describe something. It's a good thing to confront your limitations and preconceptions every so often.
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