Raymond Pettibon Quotes
I'm not God, but I'm working within my own means as an artist and a person, and I possibly have more power than God does, in whatever form he has, if he exists, because I can work without the overarching ambition of wanting to rule over everything. I can work just for the heck of it.
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'Straight Outta Compton' is my first biopic, my first period piece, and I got a chance to kind of get out there like some of my idols, you know, like Scorsese, Spielberg, Spike Lee, the guys who came before me. You know, I'm feeling good about it.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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I am a perfectly normal woman. If what we do is storytelling and represent people that we see all day and every day, well, we do not see supermodels all day and every day.
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A store is just a collection of content. The Steam store is this very safe, boring entertainment experience. Nobody says, 'I'm going to play the Steam store now.'
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We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.
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It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
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Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.
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What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.
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No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.
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Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I'd say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect.
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Presidents make their hard decisions and then abide forever with their mistakes and regrets.
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.
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I'd love to meet the right girl and have a family. I'm very broody.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way.
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In truth, how much time do any of us really have?
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I don't actually believe in a clash of civilizations. I believe in a clash of the civilized and the noncivilized.
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It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell me that we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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You tend to ignore the structures that would guide you to take care of yourself if you are taking care of others too much.
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I'm not God, but I'm working within my own means as an artist and a person, and I possibly have more power than God does, in whatever form he has, if he exists, because I can work without the overarching ambition of wanting to rule over everything. I can work just for the heck of it.
