Raymond Pettibon Quotes
My work is more driven by the creative word. It's immersed in other writing and printed work, rather than drawn so much from life or past experience.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.
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My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.
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The military executes policy decisions.
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My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in.
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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
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My father was dark skinned because he was Tatar. Sometimes Tatars can look Brazilian.
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Unfortunately, in the race to the most douchebaggery, Silicon Valley is fast in gaining on Hollywood. That race is neck and neck.
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I have plenty of investments that I wish I'd never made. But the model is to lose money on a lot of investments and then make 1,000X or 10,000X on an investment.
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I believe that when the public lacks even the most fundamental access to what its governments and militaries are doing in their names, then they cease to be involved in the act of citizenship.
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The advancement of technology has probably guided us more than anything else in one direction or another. I don't know, it's hard to say. We're so much more connected, but we've never been more fractured as a culture.
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I know that some of the finest writing I've ever read has been sports writing, whatever the topic was, whatever the sport they were writing about. It seems to be an area where people are allowed a little more leeway than when they're reporting on traffic jams and city-council meetings.
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My work is more driven by the creative word. It's immersed in other writing and printed work, rather than drawn so much from life or past experience.
