Harvey Pekar Quotes

I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.

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• I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Culture
  • Politics

• Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed under this kind of molecular scrutiny. I want them to understand I'm not simply painting them: I am painting them within a precise moment in time, as a shadow moves across their eyebrows. Then it is gone. The moment is over.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • People
  • Time
  • Present

• People are going to label you anyway, but the one that bugs me the most is when they say, 'One of the funniest female comedians.' There's s no 'funniest male comedians.' You're either a funny comedian, or you're not!

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Funny
  • Comedian

• I was trying to be someone for the first part of high school. I was kind of this nerdy kid who didn't want to be a nerd anymore. Even talking about it, I'm embarrassed. I'm like, 'Ugh, why did you care what people thought?'

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • People
  • Trying
  • School

• When I used to go to Elvis's house was always a nightmare trying to get into the house because of so many fans outside the gate and he really couldn't go anywhere without sneaking in or doing something because people just wanted to be around him and to be with him.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • People
  • Trying
  • House

• Technology itself is neither good nor bad. People are good or bad.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• I really admire people who have a natural sense of style. They have a super power.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Power
  • Style

• One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Good
  • Children

• People tend to think they know you when you come into their televisions every week. They think you are different than who you are. Don't believe everything you hear.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • People
  • Believe
  • Different

• Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus Christ and that the born-again are not just little old ladies in black but also CEOs and provosts of universities and candidates for office.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • American
  • Black

• I love watching people enjoying food. It's very relaxing for me to cook.

  

  Cara Buono
  • People
  • Food
  • Watching

• We have to help young people, because at the end of the day, we won't have an economy if we don't have them.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • People
  • Help
  • Day

• I'm a very consistent leader, and people won't find me different day to day. You won't have to have the sort of conversation that says, 'How is she today? Is this a good day to have this conversation?' You won't find that situation with me. I treat people with respect.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • People
  • Respect
  • Day

• Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Wisdom

• I wanted to write joyful music that made other people feel good. That’s what I tried to do for the past 27 years.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• One thing about television, it brings out personality. People are able to watch me in action. They hear my voice and see my eyes. There's nothing I can hide. That's me. Television brings out your flaws, your weaknesses, your strengths, and you truths. The audience either likes you or it doesn't.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Action
  • Eyes

• I have been doing some writing on the side a little bit with artists that I'm really excited about. Kind of more up and coming people. But, I'm focusing more on my own project. It's a full time job being an artist!

  

  Bonnie McKee
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• When I think about the most exotic, beautiful places, Porto is at the front of my mind. It's incredible, man. You have an idea of what Europe is like as an American, and people talk about Paris, Berlin and Stockholm, which are all great, but it wasn't until I went to Porto that I felt that idea of this exotic, beautiful, timeless place.

  

  Kevin Morby
  • People
  • Great
  • Mind

• Don't matter what they throw at us. Only angry people win football games.

  

  Darrell Royal
  • People
  • Football
  • Angry

• An actor said recently that, unless you're a parent, you shouldn't play a parent in a film. I don't know who said it, but I disagree. I understand that maybe there are aspects that you don't understand, or maybe this actor or actress had a really strong recent experience with having their first or second or third born child. I don't know. As a dad, I get that. I get that there is no love like it. But, at the same time, love is love.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Strong

• As an actor, you always think your last job is your last job, and you're always doubting yourself and worried that people will see you're a fraud.

  

  James Marsden
  • People
  • Job

• I started working when I was 13, picking up trash, bagging ice.

  

  Bob Corker
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• I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.

  

  Harvey Pekar
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  • Prose
  • Comic Con