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Quote by Ernest Istook

“English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.”

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Ernest Istook is a former United States Representative, born on February 11, 1950. He held several significant positions during his political career and has extensive experience in public policy and legislative matters. more

“People think you get one idea for a cartoon every week, and that's not the way it works. You usually get 10 or 15, and you're - certainly when I was a cartoonist, before I was a cartoon editor, you're rushing to do what is called the batch. When I was doing that, I liked to have, in general, about 10 cartoons.”

People Thinking Way Ideas Week Editors Cartoon Rushing Cartoonist

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“Cartoons, often, that you do for the New Yorker don't appear for months afterwards, and the record for that is a cartoon that was bought by James Stevenson in 1987 and didn't appear until 2000.”

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“A lot of what the Internet is showing is that talent is more disperse than gatekeepers such as myself...”

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“There is humor that's just whimsy, that we smile at, but the humor that we laugh at, someone has to be - someone's dignity has to be reduced.”

Laughing Dignity Whimsy

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“I have a cartoon where the guy is pretty much, he's a regular-sized guy, but he's the size of the island. He's saying no man is an island, but I come pretty damn close.”

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“When you look back at the older cartoons, they're very much more observational cartoons. And the cartoon, the people in the cartoons are not making the joke.”

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“The generations that were exposed to sitcom have the people actually saying the line, saying the joke, whereas sort of before that you have much more observational humor.”

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“I know everybody wants humor to be subversive and speak truth to power. I don't think power's been listening, incidentally.”

Thinking Knows Want Speak Listening Speak The Truth Subversive

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“None of the cartoons that I ever did are basically, if they're about sex, they're about sex in sort of this, you know, this ironic way, or the way that people actually treat it.”

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Author:Robert Mankoff

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