Raymond Pettibon Quotes
I don't want to express violence or anger or hate in my art. I want to express forgiveness.
Quotes to Explore
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Of course I want to look well and fit - and as an athlete, I want to look strong.
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Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.
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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
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We are a nation of immigrants, and if the truth be known, don't we need a whole lot of immigrants to be buying homes and to drive our economy and to take jobs that U.S. citizens don't want?
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I don't think you really have chemistry in the way that you want between two actors unless frustration is there as well.
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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
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A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
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I've always been obsessed with style and glamor and if I want anyone to get anything out of my book, it's how we can all have them in our lives.
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Immigration is a volatile issue, but we're in the middle of it now, and probably the worst thing to do is to not do anything. Everybody recognizes the current system is not working the way we want it to work. It has huge flaws to it; need to do something.
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It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.
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For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it.
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But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.
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I don't want to be 50 years old and rapping, man. I'm pretty sure nobody wants to do that.
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I'm always studying my craft because I want to be the best at what I do.
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My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.
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I want to tell women in developing countries that they are as powerful as their male counterparts, and they can play an equal role in their respective societies.
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I hate celebrating birthdays.
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Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.
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In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and ecstasy is too much pain.
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One of the hardest things for me to do is watch myself. The first time I see it, I am obsessed with my left ear or my right ear or some other physical attribute, or the fact that I'm 60 or whatever shallow ego thought is running through my head. I'm just destroyed that I'm not Cary Grant or whatever.
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Cricket is not everything, not by any means, but it is a large part of who I am. Therefore, I want to play in all formats of the game and to play as much as possible because, before long, it will be over.
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We all need to find the simplest and easiest ways to help stop global warming.
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I don't want to express violence or anger or hate in my art. I want to express forgiveness.
