Tom Tomorrow Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Politics, like advertising, is about people selling you things you didn't really want or need.”
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“To keep doing this job [draw political cartoons] week after week, I think you have to want to change the world, while understanding that you can't. You have to hold both of those contradictory ideas simultaneously.”
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“I don't think being a cynic is necessarily a negative thing. It's a matter of seeing the world with clear and open eyes.”
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“Our basic civil liberties are in jeopardy, but we're going to be spending our time as a society arguing about whether or not schoolchildren should be forced to pay tribute to imaginary invisible beings who live in magical kingdoms in outer space some”
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“My cartoons appear in newspapers, which are full of words, but there's something about having it in this little box that confounds people's expectations.”
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“My biggest influence growing up was Mad magazine, which is a very text-heavy form of visual satire. I didn’t grow up wanting to draw donkeys and elephants with the names of politicians written across them.”
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“I don't think that what I'm doing [political cartooning] is necessarily left versus right. What I'm addressing is top versus bottom. If I'm not spending a lot of time making fun of the more extreme elements of the Green Party, it's because what I do is to critique power.”
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“Good satire is about attacking the powerful, and that tends to be more the purview of the left. Maybe there's something about the conservative mindset that confuses mean-spirited name-calling and insults with actual humor.”
-- Tom Tomorrow
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