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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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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If we can sacrifice something comfortable, that we're 'too good at,' that might even be holding us back, we'll have more room to grow into the person we want to be.
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There's always a backlash when you challenge people's convictions and their heroes.
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The people I choose as models have a quality that seems to contain the past, the present, and the future all at once. It's hard to explain. I can look at 100 people in a room but only find it in one person.
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Life piles up so fast that I have no time to write out the equally fast rising mound of reflections.
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The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
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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.
