Harvey Pekar Quotes
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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In England, rain was thin and cold, and made you hunch up inside your coat, walking home from the bus stop. In Jamaica, it was wide and thick and invited you to step into it, and see how wet you could get, and be thrilled that it was warmer than the sea and warmer than your skin; it was abandon.
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Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it.
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My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.
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I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting.
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I grew up around really not-normal people. My family is general Hollywood. They're all artists; they're creative people who are advocates for expressing themselves. But I also have to say I'm not impressed with Hollywood.
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I'm not a drummer anymore, on my gravestone, if there is one, if anyone writes anything about me besides hopefully being a dad, it would be that I sang in my band when I was in my 20s. So I was like, 'Yeah, I should probably focus on this a little more,' so I just practiced a lot. (When asked about his singing.)
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I was instructor To the whole universe. I shall be until the judgement On the face of the Earth.
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We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament.
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Chorus of Birds: Man naturally is deceitful, ever indeed, and always, in every one thing. (tr. Warter 1830, p. 199)
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'Everybody is born good and everybody has got the same size soul. We're here to connect with that.'
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Chairman Mao was the first in the world to use Twitter. All his quotations are within 140 words.
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The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing. X claims a, Y claims b. They make arguments to support their claims with any number of points. But when their listeners remember the discussion, what matters is simply that X believes a and Y believes b. People then form their judgment on what they think of X and Y.
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I am very excited about the future for Ulta Beauty.
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It's always good to have other people who you can lean on and pick you up when you're down and vice versa.
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I just got sick of not being able to raise money for a movie - that's what happens, so I just made my own.
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The character in 'Arya' was so close to my real life persona. The director saw me once and felt I was the right guy for the role because my body language was so flamboyant. In real life, too, I am very peppy and full of life.
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You can't make everyone happy right away, you can't figure out what people want you to do, you just have to do what you want to do and hope it works out.
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The heart must glow before the tongue can gild.
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Man's life is but a jest, A dream, a shadow, bubble, air, a vapor at the best.
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Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.
