Quotes by Jonathan Shapiro - Page 1

You can't undo a deportation.
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Deportation
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What's much harder is taking on people in your own community.
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Harder
Community People Your
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Certainly in cartooning I'm given huge free rein at the moment.
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Cartooning
Rein
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I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals.
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Satirical
Individuals
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I try not to change my political point of view from paper to paper.
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Paper
Point Of View
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Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!
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Computers
Barely
Complete
Gee
Log
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I am anti-Bush. A lot of what he stands for is the antithesis of what I stand for.
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Antithesis
Stands
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There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great.
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Teacher
Cartooning
Recognized
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Primarily I'm a social commentator rather than someone who's out to get the belly laugh.
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Belly
Commentator
Primarily
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Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.
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Humor
Agree
Target
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I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character.
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Mood
Revealing
Expose
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I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them.
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On one occasion in 1987 the security police came looking for me because of a drawing that I'd published.
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Drawing
Security
Came
Occasion
Published
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I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas.
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Catalogue
Draft
Draw
Normally
Scribble
Sketch
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Mandela once phoned me out of the blue while he was still president, and at first he played with me a bit.
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Blue
Mandela
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I see the cartoonist as contributing to the content, being critical, because we do poke holes in some of the dialogue and find new ways of seeing things.
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Cartoonist
Critical
Dialogue
Holes
New Ways
Poke
Content
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Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what the readers or letters may say.
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Compromise
Death Penalty
Letters
Trade
Views
Arm
Penalty
Readers
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The cartoons which I enjoy have caused some kind of out rage, but they have got people talking about these issues out in the open and in essence that's what its all about.
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Essence
Caused
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I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about.
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Absurd
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Hypocrisy
Skeptical
Define
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It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace.
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Arrows
Cows
Hypocrisy
Sacred
Sacred Cows
Social Justice
Advocate
Politicians
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There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks and balances that in that way their noises are just noises.
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Authoritarianism
Checks
Disturbing
New Government
Government People New
Balances
Checks And Balances
Noises
Tendency
Toward
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We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture - physical, mental or otherwise.
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Reasonable
Torture
Convention
Expectation
Mental
Otherwise
Subjected
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