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.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Young

• 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.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Care
  • Ability
  • Protect

• 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.

  

  Barton Seaver
  • Age
  • Space
  • Start

• 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.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Love
  • Small
  • New York

• If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Being
  • Year
  • Very

• 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.

  

  Ice T
  • People
  • Doing
  • Hatred

• The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Man
  • Failure
  • Cost

• Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Security
  • Immigration

• On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Time
  • Long
  • Hand

• I don't know what I've done that has made people so interested in me, more than anyone else.

  

  Rachel Lambert Mellon
  • People
  • Done
  • Know

• Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Stand
  • Other
  • Shoulders

• 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.

  

  Ze Frank
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• 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.'

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Say

• It made the most sense for us to select Sam Bowie. It was almost a no-brainer.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Made
  • U.S.
  • Almost

• If you want to do something, what does it matter where you are ranked?

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Want
  • You
  • Matter

• Getting a family into work, supporting strong relationships, getting parents off drugs and out of debt - all this can do more for a child's well-being than any amount of money in out-of-work benefits.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Work
  • Family
  • Money

• You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Good
  • You
  • Education

• I really don't want you to think of Qatar as a hydrocarbon country alone. We know that hydrocarbons will come and go. But education will stay. It is the most important thing for us.

  

  Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
  • Important
  • Country
  • Education

• I am not afraid of much. I kill all the spiders in my house, and I'm planning to go skydiving. I am into girl power, and I'm very self-sufficient.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • Power
  • House
  • Girl

• It'a an immense joy to be here today. I have received from millions of male and female Brazilians the most important mission of my life. This fact, beyond myself, is a demonstration of the democratic development of our country because for the first time a woman will rule Brazil.

  

  Dilma Rousseff
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• Since I was a little kid, I was against fur. I never wore fur in my life.

  

  Elisabetta Canalis
  • Life

• The fact that you are not sure means that it is possible that there is another way someday.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Way
  • Facts
  • Someday

• The last time I saw Dad alive, he was in the hospital. He was watching 'Hell Drivers,' a crummy B-movie about truckers, on TV and reading the 'Daily Record.' This seems scarcely believable, but I actually said, 'Dad, you've not got long to go - don't you think you should be imbibing the culture a bit more?'

  

  John Niven
  • Time
  • Long
  • Movie

• It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something.

  

  Jhonen Vasquez