Raymond Pettibon Quotes
In my time, we had little league and junior league or whatever - before that, there's the sandlot. Kids played baseball wherever you can make a space. We played tackle-football on the street. Now we play basketball in the studio. We have a hoop. But we also have a pitching machine.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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I'm kind of an antsy person.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.
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I remember being in a history lesson and saying to my teacher, 'How come you never talk about black scientists and inventors and pioneers?' And she looked at me and said, 'Because there aren't any.'
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I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.
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Eating is my main hobby now, and most of what I do on the weekend revolves around that.
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I grew up Catholic, so the more non-denominational Christian experience was a new experience for me.
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Offensive operations and hunting down the enemy is an integral part of any counterinsurgency approach.
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The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.
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Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
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Nihilism, then, is the end process of rationalism. It is man's self conscious will to destroy his past and control his future. It is modernity at its extreme.
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Port Security is one of our weakest security links, and it must be one of our highest priorities.
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There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to give kids every platform for them to find what they are good at and what they love. The arts also provide a space for newfound creativity.
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If I wanted, I could have ruled half of Bombay.
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In my time, we had little league and junior league or whatever - before that, there's the sandlot. Kids played baseball wherever you can make a space. We played tackle-football on the street. Now we play basketball in the studio. We have a hoop. But we also have a pitching machine.
