Jhonen Vasquez Quotes
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
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That show, 'The Amazing Race' - is that about white people?
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If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?
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When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.
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I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.
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I understand entertaining. You want people to walk out saying, 'I spent a night with interesting people.'
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It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.
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When people think girl adventurers, they tend to think of a spunky, plucky tom-boy with a chip on her shoulder. I'm not saying that this makes for a dull character, but I think other types of adventurous girls exist. It's easy to fall into well-established tropes, believing that the tropes of a genre define the genre itself.
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I'm lucky to be married to someone who entirely gets what I do. She is totally sympathetic to the actor's life. Her own mother was an actress, so she sort of grew up with it.
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I like America, and I think probably the American people like me.
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Everybody wants to be a star right now, to be heard, to have a voice, so you have to give the confidence for people to have that ability - and give them the wardrobe to become a star.
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This is my job. I just wake up, and I train.
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The first time I went on stage as an adult was touring with the Johnny Cash Show. I'd sang as a child. But my grown-up initiation was as part of that band.
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Mangroves, salt marshes and sea grass lock away carbon at up to five times the rate of tropical forests.
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Growing up in the Sacramento Valley in the '70s, we were all pretty big into cars. Of course, I had to nerd out and be a fan of Bob Tullius' Group 44 Jaguars instead of Corvettes/Camaros.
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I go to all of the trade shows, know a lot of the people making marketing decisions, and I want to keep my finger on the pulse of snowboarding.
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Sometimes the biggest problem is in your head. You've got to believe you can play a shot instead of wondering where your next bad shot is coming from.
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The realization of a sustainable economic development strategy for Maine's Native American communities has always been a priority and a critical element of my administration's overall economic development strategy.
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Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
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Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.
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I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.
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I will tell you, I'm a lousy cook, but I think I'm a pretty good judge of a good meal.
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I don't like it when people dress up like Zim, because they look like Hulks.
