Jhonen Vasquez Quotes
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Quotes to Explore
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
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It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.
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A lot of times, we look at jazz in eras. How can we not keep those eras separate and think of the language as one complete continuum? It's all interrelated, and it's all evolutionary.
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The GOP is broken. They need a Bill Clinton moment with someone to figure things out. Let me just say - and I don't agree with his policies, so let me put a warning label on the side of the packet here - If George W. Bush had never gotten in the disastrous Iraq war, he was trying to modernize the party on a series of fronts.
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I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
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I think when I first started cycling, it wasn't that popular with kids. I felt almost embarrassed going down the road on my road bike; I didn't want my friends to see me because it was embarrassing.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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I do not think athletes should get a free pass. I don't think we should train our children and future athletes to believe that they are above the law and morality.
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I actually happened to be in Haiti right before the earthquake in 2010. I was there already with the organization I work with now, Artists for Peace and Justice, visiting the primary school that I had adopted, the Academy for Peace and Justice in Port-au-Prince. I came back, and within days, the earthquake happened.
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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
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Now suddenly you got members of your White House team who were 23, 24. They've met their wives here, or their husbands here.
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