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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I have two rules for a great book: make me think and make me smile.
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Once you learn the basic rules of good nutrition, you'll realize it's not so complicated. It doesn't matter if you're running errands or 13 miles, you need enough fuel to last all day. Proper nutrition is the difference between feeling exhausted and getting the most out of a workout.
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There are a lot of idiots in this country, and they deserve representation as much as the next man.
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When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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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.
