Harvey Pekar Quotes
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The secret of my success with Geraldine is that she's not a putdown of women. She's smart, she's trustful, she's loyal, she's sassy.
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I got no hate in me.
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I have received nasty e-mails, messages on Twitter and ridiculous comments, not only about my size, but my family.
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It fits my ADD, so that's good. Because I really can't focus on anything for too long. And 'Top Gear's really the easiest thing to do because I'm with my pals. It's like coming home with my friends. We're having so much fun making the show.
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
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I can never let the guy across from me be in better shape. I have to be the best-conditioned guy.
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All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?
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How could I stand by and watch my house on fire?
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Far and few, far and few,Are the lands where the Jumblies live;Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,And they went to sea in a Sieve.
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I was aware that the loosening of mortgage credit terms for subprime borrowers increased financial risk. But I believed then, as now, that the benefits of broadened home ownership are worth the risk.
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The moment the angel enters a life it enters an environment. We are ecological from day one.
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When you live and work in different time zones, you spend a lot of time on airplanes.
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We use digitisation and 3D-render programs such as Optitex and ClO3D to create the silhouettes, but we invented our system to let users mix and match components in real time.
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If there is one belief that unifies most Alaskans - our true north - it is less government and more freedom. We don't want the government in our pockets or our bedrooms; we certainly don't need it in our families.
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The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.
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I'm not a politician. I'm a businessperson.
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Our brains are designed to solve some of our most complex problems when we're distracted by routine habits.
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I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Special Skills. I was to do posters, pamphlets, murals, propaganda in general, you know.
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Life is priceless even to an ant.
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I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing poems at that point only because a friend of mine dared me to write a poem. And I took the dare because I was convinced that I couldn't write a good poem... And then it actually wasn't so bad.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.
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I've been involved in doing advertising for various elections and I just couldn't see doing anti-Trump advertising in this election. My line has been, "How could you do anything worse that what he does himself?".
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Since about 1980 Kenny Werner has been one of jazz’s unsung heroes...
