Quotes by Ted Rall - Page 1

I'm a better polemicist in prose.
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Prose
Better
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Anyone should be able to read comics.
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Able
Book
Reading
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Most people don't know how to tell stories.
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Brussel Sprouts
People
Stories
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I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip.
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Radical
Strip
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Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.
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Jimmy
Anyway
Liking
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Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most.
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Dad
Stress
Used
Money Dad Me
Remind
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I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
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Graphic
Graphic Novels
Novel
Thinking
Written
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It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.
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Perfectly
Shakespeare
Valid
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Even though I'm a leftist. I think the left eats its own.
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Left
Leftists
Thinking
Eats
Leftist
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I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.
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Enjoy
Jazz
Thinking
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Close friends love you for who you are; not what they want you to be.
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Friendship
Love
Want
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I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
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American Society
First Generation
Generation
Integrate
Successfully
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At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.
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American Workers
Boss
Loathe
Respectful
Workers
Bosses
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On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
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Anti-american
Pakistan
Planets
States
Ground
Planet
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The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.
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Boss
Firsts
Moron
Steps
First Step
Step
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When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.
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Cartoon
Headlines
Incomplete
Information
News
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If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
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Graphic
Long
Long Way
Novel
Skills
Writing
Good Long Way
Rank
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There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.
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Blair
Honorable
Ruined
Source
Tradition
Anonymous
Sources
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I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.
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Parody
Work Doing Never
Directly
Influenced
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Americans are not terribly intelligent people. They need to read important things several times.
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Important
Intelligent
People
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When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
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Graphic
Novel
Prose
Storytelling
Thinking
Together
Writing
Literary
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Do our government's poorly paid contract killers deserve our 'support' for blindly following orders?
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Government
Order
Support
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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Jobs
Hated
Stills
Day Job
Personally
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I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.
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Awful
Cartoonist
Default
Editorial
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Life is incredibly short, yet we're always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn't acceptable.
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Life Is
Race
Take Time
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The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone's apartment and they don't know you, but they've taped one of your pieces up.
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Bars
Cartoonist
Pieces
Walks
Best Walk Your
Bar
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But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches.
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Trenches
People More Who
People More Things
Cartooning
Experiencing
Full-Time
Observer
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When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.
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Bird
Expression
Eye
Tilt
Stare
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Over time, however, the endless war in Iraq began to play a role in natural selection. Only idiots signed up; only idiots died. Back home, the average I.Q. soared.
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Home
War
Average
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Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.
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Humor
Fun
Harder
Two Sides
Frankly
Liberal
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Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.
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Running
Afghanistan
Country
Hands
Alliance
Cheap
Puppet
Northern
Rebuild
Regime
Runs
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I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great.
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Book
Great Book
Literature
Prose
Good Great Better
Standard
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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Analysis
Direct
Notes
Rely
Silk
Use
Writing
Quotes
Right Away
Ruin
Structured
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Imagine foreign troops sitting idly, laughing as hooligans trashed the Smithsonian, stole the gold from Fort Knox and burned down the Department of the Interior. That was us in Iraq.
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Iraq
Laughing
Usa
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Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
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Association
Confused
Fans
Thinking
Fan
Cartoonists
Editorial
Hatch
Last
Meeting
Speaker
Sought
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Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.
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Cutting
Genre
Kind
Stuff
Comics
Cuts
Objective
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The word 'hero' has been bandied about a lot to refer to anyone killed in Afghanistan or Iraq. But anyone who voluntarily goes to Afghanistan or Iraq [as a soldier] is fighting for an evil cause under an evil commander in chief.
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Fighting
Hero
Iraq
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The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country.
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Afghanistan
Commitment
Country
Experts
Marshall Plan
Occupation
Years
Allied
Billion
Original
Coupled
Forces
Marshall
Plan
Soldiers
Throughout
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Here in the US, we've built this insane infrastructure of oppression. When it's not run by a Barack Obama - who, by the way, I don't think is a perfect president - but by someone who is off-kilter, like a Carly Fiorina, that could be dangerous.
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Running
Perfect
Thinking
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That's what comics journalism does better than anything else: you can get a feeling of what it was like. Like Scott McCloud says, especially with a simple drawing style, you can project yourself into the image, and imagine yourself having those experiences.
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Feelings
Simple
Style
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Saddam Hussein, influenced by fascism, ordered the deaths of tens of thousands of people, fought two disastrous wars, turned his nation into an international pariah and ruined his country’s economy. In other words, his record is identical to George W. Bush’s.
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War
Country
Two
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I would like to fire every cop in America and start from scratch. We don't need as many of them, and the whole model of policing is completely off the rails. For the most part, the police are engaged in very little protection of the public. That's probably 5 percent of what they do. The rest of it is writing tickets.
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Cop
Police
Writing
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For an ordinary citizen, what is the common interaction you have with a police officer? When they pull you over for speeding, or when they write you a ticket for parking. The rest of the time is patrolling minority neighborhoods like an occupying army. It's suppression of blacks, and it's revenue enhancement. Surveillance is a Band-Aid. That's like saying, "Let's surveil the SS." No! Let's get rid of the SS!
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Army
Police
Writing
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Bernie Sanders is an impressive guy. His authenticity and his credibility stem precisely from the fact that he has been marginalized from the mainstream political process for decades. He's been in the US Senate, yeah, he has had a life in politics for thirty years, but he's never really been able to get anything done. He's the only socialist in the US Congress. He's not a Democrat or a Republican, but he's always been saying the same things about income inequality, in particular.
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Done
Guy
Political
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I was reading through all these NSA programs that Snowden has revealed, and one of the ones that fascinated me was that smart TVs can be used to look at you in your room. That is totally like the telescreen from 1984. It's not sort of like it, it's not a lot like it, it is it. And the ability of the NSA to turn on your cell phone, even if it's powered down, and listen to you in your home - that's insane to me. People had been warning that 1984 was just around the corner. Well, it has arrived, and Snowden has proven that.
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Home
Reading
Smart
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What people don't seem to ever understand is that any infrastructure that exists under your regime, in your current government, will be appropriated and inherited by the next regime. I mean, the KGB came out of the NKVD which came out of the Tsarist version of the same thing. And now, the FSB operates out of the old KGB building in Moscow. The infrastructure remains exactly the same. There's a little bit of reshuffling of personnel, and that's it. The way to make sure that there's no FSB today would have been for the Tsar to not have built an infrastructure for it in the 1800s.
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Mean
People
Today
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