Dave Sim Quotes

In any creative field-any creative field-you must first understand that you have no value whatsoever. Your work has no value whatsoever. You are completely worthless. Whatever potential you have is just that-potential-and when you are discussing self-publishing a comic book, you have about the same chance of success as 10 thousand others. (p. 21)

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• Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Great
  • Evil
  • Military

• I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Nature
  • Think

• In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Violence

• I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Heart
  • Think

• There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Life
  • Myself
  • My Life

• We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Support
  • Decision

• The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • American
  • Strong

• You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.

  

  Sam Altman
  • You
  • Progress
  • Try

• Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Good
  • Rock
  • Metal

• I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • United States
  • Plans
  • Almost

• I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Cool

• I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Think
  • Me
  • Angry

• I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Like
  • Busy
  • Cattle

• War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Political
  • Military

• Bitcoin is one of the most viral concepts I've ever encountered.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • Most
  • Concepts
  • Bitcoin

• There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Failure
  • Difference
  • Between

• England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Power
  • America
  • True

• Did I feel naked being naked? Yeah. Totally.

  

  Jennifer Lawrence

• 'Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the billions. 'We the people' affect the making and quality of most of our culture, but not our art.'

  

  Banksy
  • People
  • Art
  • Success

• But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money. It was the fault of the rich, it seemed, but just how he did not know.

  

  Agnes Smedley
  • Work
  • Money
  • Mother

• On the sets, Ali Zafar was extremely entertaining... he would just start singing out of the blue. It was just great!

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Great
  • Singing
  • Blue

• I like to go out and have fun with my friends. I have family, too, so why can't I go out to clubs? I can, and I will.

  

  Neymar
  • Family
  • Why
  • Friends

• In any creative field-any creative field-you must first understand that you have no value whatsoever. Your work has no value whatsoever. You are completely worthless. Whatever potential you have is just that-potential-and when you are discussing self-publishing a comic book, you have about the same chance of success as 10 thousand others. (p. 21)

  

  Dave Sim
  • Work
  • Book
  • Success