I’ve been amazed at how one idea leads to others if I allow my mind to play and wander.
BILL WATTERSONYou know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D’s in school. Well guess what, I get F’s!!!
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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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I wonder where we go when we die?” “…Pittsburgh?” “You mean if we’re good or if we’re bad?
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Hello Dad! It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I am?
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Calvin: Sometimes when I’m talking, my words can’t keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we can think faster than we speak? Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.
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I tell you all this because it’s worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success.
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I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn’t have paid for me.
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Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
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There’s great potential for that which has yet to be fully mined.
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People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.
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I would turn out rough idea after rough idea, and he would veto eighty percent of them. I pretty much prostituted myself for six months but I couldn’t please him, so he sent me packing.
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Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin. Calvin: [retrospectively] I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
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Hobbes: Jump! Jump! Jump! I win! Calvin: You win? Aaugghh! You won last time! I hate it when you win! Aarrggh! Mff! Gnnk! I hate this game! I hate the whole world! Aghhh!
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They can’t chain my spirit! My spirit runs free! Walls can’t contain it! Laws can’t restrain it! Authority has no power over it!
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Suddenly, we realize our time in here is fleeting. Is our quick experience here pointless?
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Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.
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