Garry Trudeau Quotes

• I don’t think so, but it’s always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wounded and killed in Iraq are about the same age as my kids. My godson is going over soon, so the war’s about to get personal for me.

  Garry Trudeau

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Mind, Soldiers

• Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

  Garry Trudeau

  Topics in College

  Tags in Commencement, Students

• Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.

  Garry Trudeau

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Insecurity, Combination

• I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.

  Garry Trudeau

  Topics in Compromise

  Tags in People, Contradictions

• I’ve been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn’t require my presence.

  Garry Trudeau

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Lifestyle, Development

• In any event, it’s not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are.

  Garry Trudeau

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Regular, Readers, Secret

• In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.

  Garry Trudeau

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Divorce, Lawyers

• Life is like a movie-since there aren’t any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.

  Garry Trudeau

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Comparison, Movie

• Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there’s no culture of complaint.

  Garry Trudeau

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fundamental, Goals, Frustration

• Well, it’s a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader… But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.

  Garry Trudeau

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Responsibility

Garry Trudeau (10)

Birth:	21st July, 1948
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Cartoonist

About

Garretson Beekman "Garry" Trudeau was born in New York City, New York, USA. He is an American cartoonist, best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning Doonesbury comic strip. He is also the creator and executive producer of the Amazon Studios political comedy series Alpha House. He spent much of his time cartooning and writing for Yale's humor magazine The Yale Record, eventually serving as the magazine's editor-in-chief. He earned a master of fine arts degree in graphic design from the Yale School of Art in 1973.

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