Raymond Pettibon Quotes
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A baby comes with such responsibility. Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.
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Love is more than one thing.
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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
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It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever so slightly better.
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I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.
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Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.
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The only difference between a good writer who publishes a book and a good writer who doesn't is that the writer who publishes actually finished her book.
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I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.
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I am trying to do my own thing, but there will always be comparisons, even if I don't agree with them.
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I can't touch Simon anymore.
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I do believe the potential for ConnectU was as big as Facebook's, absolutely.
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When you have children love is always there in the best form.
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Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white.
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The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.
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If you have a lot of sweetness and quirkiness, someone's got to have a little bit of bite against that.
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I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father. I want to be judged on my own merits.
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You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, 'Yes, where are you going?' And he says, 'I want a ticket to nowhere.' I thought: that's it. The freedom to do that. I want a ticket to nowhere.
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I have four horses, and they are my everything.
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When I see a train, I want to take it in my arms.
