Jeff Lemire Quotes

When I write Superboy and other DC characters, it's about boiling them down to core concepts.

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• While teaching a course on global development at Uppsala University in Sweden, I realized our students didn't have a fact-based worldview. They talked about 'we' and 'them.' They thought there were two groups of countries: the Western world, with small families and long lives, and the Third World, with large families and short lives.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Long
  • Small

• I've written a lot of really good books. Now we'll see if I can write any more good books. I mean there's a chance I won't, but I'm going to try.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Good
  • Chance
  • Try

• Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
  • Language
  • Literature
  • Economics

• I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Think
  • Vision
  • Politics

• History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • History
  • Victim
  • Both

• And a tiny number of people in a few states make these decisions, and we're left with these options that are increasingly not attractive to the American people.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • American
  • Decisions

• Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Rock
  • Guilt
  • Rock And Roll

• Someone was asking me what my favorite outfit is, and 100%, without a doubt in my mind, is my forever lazy.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Mind
  • Forever
  • Lazy

• You have to love what you do. And in order to do that, you have to search your soul to find out what it is that you really are about. And then when you find it, if you're lucky enough to be in a position to do what it is that you love, it becomes easy. I'm blessed that I ended up doing exactly what I wanted to do.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • Soul
  • Blessed
  • Easy

• I could program the VCR when I was really young.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Young
  • Program
  • VCR

• The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure to achieve quick or short term results.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • True
  • Year
  • Prove

• What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.

  

  Alice James
  • Book
  • Reading

• I want to be something so much worthier than the doll in the doll's house.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • House

• I do not give a damn about the dead. They died for the Communist Party and the Party can decide what it wants. I practice a live man’s politics, for the living.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Live
  • Party
  • Practice

• Mine is a job that never ends, a function where it is almost impossible to set aside time to rest or take a breather.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • Time
  • Job
  • Rest

• It's a phobia I have. I never assume I'm going to be able to write another album after I finish one.

  

  Bruce Cockburn

• I'm this goofball. I look at myself in the mirror, and the person that I know doesn't match up to what I think people love to perceive me as.

  

  Darren Criss
  • People
  • Up
  • Mirror

• I do not know how wicked American millionaires are, but as I travel about and see the results of their generosity in the form of hospitals, churches, public libraries, universities, parks, recreation grounds, art museums and theatres I wonder what on earth we should do without them.

  

  William Lyon Phelps
  • Art
  • Theatre
  • Library

• We are not perfect. We make mistakes. We screw up but then we forgive and move forward.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Perfect
  • Mistakes
  • Forward

• I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.

  

  Cory Booker
  • King
  • Alive
  • Civil Rights

• I've never seen a great military, political, or corporate leader who was not a great storyteller. Telling stories is a core competency in business, although it's one that we don't pay enough attention to.

  

  Bran Ferren
  • Business
  • Political
  • Attention

• Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.

  

  Alexander Smith
  • Life
  • Road

• When I write Superboy and other DC characters, it's about boiling them down to core concepts.

  

  Jeff Lemire