Jeff Lemire Quotes
I think America's obsession with guns and with violence in media and society is a horrible sickness.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.
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You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.
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My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.
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Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.
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Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
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I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
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You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.
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Rome will exist as long as the Coliseum does; when the Coliseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world.
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If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?
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Getting a degree, being on Sesame Street... those were like real accomplishments to me.
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Never forget the nine most important words of any family- I love you. You are beautiful. Please forgive me.
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I'm the black sheep: I got into telly.
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Yes, ISIS is a threat. It's more than a nuisance. It's also in many respects criminal violence. But it isn't, in my view, a central strategic issue facing humanity.
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I find it amoral if you're making a movie where the problem is solved with a guy standing in the back of pickup truck firing a machine at the bad guys. The morality of it is questionable because the repercussions of violence are incredibly far-reaching.
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I think America's obsession with guns and with violence in media and society is a horrible sickness.
