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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All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
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I find my best writing time is actually 6 A.M., before the detritus of the day - the fish fingers and the school uniform and dogs and bills - have had a chance to clog up my brain. I can usually get 500 words done before 7 A.M. But it is difficult, and the Internet, and social networking, are terrible timesucks.
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Time will tell and we will watch with interest how they put their action with their words.
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We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.
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He Brendan Bracken had been upset by my observation that a wartime Minister of Information was compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow to resemble a wig.
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Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.
