Harvey Pekar Quotes
I just continue to be kind of disappointed that people don't realize that and try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics.
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Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.
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For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
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In my world view, clearly the Internet is a huge force multiplier for Indian media because it has not crept up on us like something invisible; we've seen it all play out in the West.
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Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.
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There's been a gap between perception and reality, the perception being that California is on the cutting edge of gun safety legislation when, in fact, there are a number of areas where we have fallen behind.
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I just sing. You have to use it.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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You don't win the game if you try to hit home runs all the time.
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Anything that I can do with Jennie Garth, I would love to do it. I really like her. I got along with her really well, and I enjoyed her perspective on life. I think she's really talented and very, very funny.
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They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.
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For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.
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Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.
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No one will be forced to take the public option. The word option means choice.
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The important thing is that we now have the tools to sequence all kinds of animals and plants and microbes - as well as humans. It is not important that we didn't actually finish the human sequence yet.
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A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
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When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other.
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I just continue to be kind of disappointed that people don't realize that and try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics.
