Harvey Pekar Quotes
I wanted to write literature that pushed people into their lives rather than helping people escape from them.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, 'Well, I really want to try acting while I'm young, and I don't ever want to look back and say that I never gave it a try.' I fully figured I'd be back in grad school - probably for psychology.
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The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me. The sanction for it is sought in the Bible and the tenacity with which the Jews have hankered after return to Palestine. Why should they not, like other peoples of the earth, make that country their home where they are born and where they earn their livelihood?
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Vehicular traffic is completely forbidden in the green strips, where tranquility shall reign and the curse of noise shall not penetrate.
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.
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Churches, depending on their policy, can do fantastic work with people in the community.
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Listening is more important than talking. Just hit your mark and believe what you say. Just listen to people and react to what they are saying.
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I wanted to write literature that pushed people into their lives rather than helping people escape from them.
