Harvey Pekar Quotes
I wanted to write literature that pushed people into their lives rather than helping people escape from them.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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I'm totally fine with people criticizing me in shows... people like this show, or don't; you're entitled to your opinion. But when people are criticizing you as a person, I have to say it's a little bit different.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
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God's blessing has been on America from the very beginning of this nation, and I believe God isn't done with America yet.
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The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
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It is incredibly important to set goals for your business, as if you have no direction for your business, your online business will be a failure.
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Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.
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By itself, tofu is like wet foam rubber, but you'd no more eat it by itself and expect fine dining than you would stare at a blank canvas and expect to see fine art.
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Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce?
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If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
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I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.
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As if our birth had at first sundered things, and we had been thrust up through into nature like a wedge, and not till the wound heals and the scar disappears, do we begin to discover where we are, and that nature is one and continuous everywhere.
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I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.
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Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.
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If people are going to be cooking the books, you're in trouble.
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'It might interest you to know that our state is tired of being used as a chemical toilet so that people in Utah can have plastic lawn furniture.' 'I can't believe an assistant attorney general came right out and said that.''Well, I wouldn't say it in public.'
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I wanted to write literature that pushed people into their lives rather than helping people escape from them.
