Jhonen Vasquez Quotes
It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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It's a great time of the year... if you can stand it.
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Grilling is an easy tradition to start at any age! To get started, one only needs a modest investment in equipment and a little bit of outdoor space.
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I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.
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The thing is, if I ever found a guy I could fall in love with, I'd want to marry him and have his children. And that scares me to death because I think I'm a whole bunch of crazy, and I always worry that a guy will walk away once he really, truly knows me.
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I love rhymes; I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from Knoxville who bought her brassieres by the boxful.' I just feel a sort of small triumph.
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If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
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I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops. The cops are just doing what they're told to do.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform.
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Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.
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On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.
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I don't know what I've done that has made people so interested in me, more than anyone else.
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Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
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On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss this as some sort of bad trend in human culture. But the truth is life is being lived there. When they smile - right, you've seen people stop - all of a sudden, life is being lived there, somewhere up in that weird, dense network.
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Every once in a while, I would say, 'I don't want to do this anymore,' and I would go back to third grade, and after six months, I'd say, 'OK, I'm bored. Let's go make a movie.'
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It made the most sense for us to select Sam Bowie. It was almost a no-brainer.
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If you want to do something, what does it matter where you are ranked?
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We're all dead the moment we're born. Just, some of us get there faster than others.
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Being a father at a later age is different from when I had my other two daughters when I was in my 20s and 30s. If you're in your 60s and you're with the kid every day, you're dealing with the mind of a child, so it opens up that childishness in you again.
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Call it stubborn, call it ignorant, call it what you want, but I don't think I have to join a particular faith or culture or creed or religion just to fit in
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If we want to enlighten people or give them new thoughts and ideas, we have to be willing to do the work of educating them.
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It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.
