Harvey Pekar Quotes
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
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In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.
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It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!
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Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.
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My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
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Learn how to heal yourself and stop fucking with them hospitals
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I've got three daughters and I'm going to stand up for them and support them in whatever they want to do.
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When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
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The explosion in the number of available personal services says a great deal about changing ideas of what we can reasonably expect from whom.
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Follow what your head is telling you and work hard. That's the big secret.
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Most of what you see now emphasizes animals being dangerous to humans.
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I was a chameleon, the woman men wanted me to be.
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Television news was expanding to an hour, and producers did not know how to fill the space and time.
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I don't think I've ever been moulded but I think I am always learning.
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Russia has gone through eight years of continuing economic pain.
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In keeping with Miramax tradition, I was instructed to find the 'hottest young stars around' to cast in the movie. I got a list of two names: Michelle Monaghan and Casey Affleck. I was lucky enough to get them both.
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Managing people's sex lives is something that I don't think is a good role for government.
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'I consider this Negro Benjamin Banneker as fresh proof that the powers of the mind are disconnected with the colour of the skin or in other words, a striking contradiction to Mr. Hume's doctrine that 'the Negroes are naturally inferior to the whites and unsusceptible of attainments in arts and sciences.'' 123
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Policing is one of those jobs that will always revolve around a meatspace hub, if only because you can’t build a cellblock in cyberspace.
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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.
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Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.
