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We knew coming in that this would be a litmus test for our team. Who better to see where you're at then against the team favored to win? Chesterton had a really good meet, but we didn't just roll over for them.


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JIM DAVIS I didn't have a whole lot of success getting dates, I was always a bit of a geek.
JIM DAVIS I can go everywhere and no one recognises me.
JIM DAVIS I was very happy and honored to create the Professor Garfield Foundation with Ball State to make rea...
JIM DAVIS Usually I commit to something in my head and then I start drawing.
JIM DAVIS I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.
JIM DAVIS My dream in life is to write the one gag that makes everyone in the world laugh.
JIM DAVIS I thought if I could create a convincing cat I could say and do anything I wanted on the human condi...
JIM DAVIS Readers have told me that their children have learned to read after years of struggle after starting...
JIM DAVIS You have to do something when you're lying in bed. So you play with your mind.
JIM DAVIS The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.
JIM DAVIS Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat.
JIM DAVIS There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessari...
JIM DAVIS Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute hum...
JIM DAVIS You'd have to go a long way to find someone who was more proud and grateful for what our veteran...
JIM DAVIS Good morning is a contradiction of terms.
JIM DAVIS Cats rule the world.
JIM DAVIS As we celebrate President Reagan's remarkable career and historic legacy, we also celebrate a ma...
JIM RAMSTAD I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, th...
JIM JARMUSCH Where's your will to be weird?
JIM MORRISON Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
JIM ROHN Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.
JIM MORRISON Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and op...
JIM MORRISON My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where t...
JIM CARREY Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn't eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Se...
JIM CARREY I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserv...
JIM CARREY There was a time when people said, 'Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like...
JIM CARREY I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever.
JIM CARREY Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good rel...
JIM CARREY Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased.
JIM CARREY People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without despera...
JIM CARREY Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain...
JIM CARREY I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingred...
JIM CARREY I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day w...
JIM CARREY If you've got a talent, protect it.
JIM CARREY My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.
JIM CARREY I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create ...
JIM CARREY It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's lef...
JIM CARREY Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articl...
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