Harvey Pekar Quotes
It didnt take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start.
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When I went to drama school, I knew I was at least as talented as other students, but because I was a black man and I wasn't pretty, I knew I would have to work my butt off to be the best that I would be, and to be noticed.
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Sofia Coppola is wonderful, and I'd love to work with her.
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It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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The women who don't feel that people think they're sexy are the ones who seem to titillate in that way, because they don't feel like they're getting that kind of approval.
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Everyone knows almost everything about me. I make it very clear that I'm cool with people knowing all my personal life through my songs.
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I just like when I work with people that are professional and good.
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We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.
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I believe that we are going to have a much deeper appreciation of what kinds of abnormalities in cancer cells and in the surrounding cells that feed and respond to cancers are vulnerabilities that will allow us to make better predictions of which kinds of drugs will work to treat these cancers.
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There's no such thing as a healthy tan, and that's what people need to understand.
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I think whatever dress you wear, people will criticise you. Different people have different opinions.
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Some of my favorite pieces are from thrift shops. When I find something I really love, I live, work and sleep in it.
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It wasn't in the cards to work out in football.
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Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be blended; and, in fact, they are surprised by the rigid and pretentious Western hierarchy of 'high art.'
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People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.
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I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.
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'Polytechnique' changed everything in my way of working. I became an adult, really, during those five years. I didn't work on anything else but 'Polytechnique.'
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I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.
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The one thing I like about 'Playboy' is they don't have the anorexic look. The women are voluptuous. So I didn't really want to diet. I just wanted to tone up.
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You get into sports with the idea that you want to win. If you aren't trying to win, what's the point in being involved?
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You know how some people complain about the way carriage horses are treated? That they are in a small stall? That is mistreatment. In a holding cell, you get very bored. You have no newspapers, you have no anything.
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I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' 'til I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you're not doing so well. And your rest room is not inside the house.
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I guess I look so straight and normal, nobody expects me to pick my nose and fall.
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It didnt take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start.
