Raymond Pettibon Quotes
I don't drive often, because the parking makes it too much of a nuisance. And I could never go back to commuting or anything. I'd just get fed up with it.
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If you want to get married to a man, then get married to a man. If two women want to get married, they should get married. It's not hurting me.
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No one individual vote, no one individual quote or no one individual statement defines me, my beliefs, or my record.
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She was a young person whose reveries never were in retrospect. For her past was no treasury of distinct memories, all hoarded and classified, some brighter than others and more highly valued. All memories were for her but as the motes in one fused radiance that followed her and made more luminous the pathway of her future.
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I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying gold of the one, and make the other toss the pale purple of its plumes, so that all the air shall be Arabia for me.
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Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody ever seems to do anything about it.
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The latest literary discussions reflect a struggle between two artistic methods - romanticism and realism, with the latter clearly ascendant for the time being.
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If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.
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What's the point in having a mind if you don't use it to make judgements?
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Carlsen came with a line that was not very theoretical, trying to challenge the World Champion to play chess. [...] But Anand proved that even this obscure line is something he has studied before, and it was Carlsen that was set back.
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Many traumatized people seem to seek out experiences that would repel most of us,14 and patients often complain about a vague sense of emptiness and boredom when they are not angry, under duress, or involved in some dangerous activity.
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There's something very particular about the kind of rage you feel when you're alone in a practice room by yourself, unable to master a simple thing like a rudiment.
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Our goal should be to understand our differences.
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The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul.
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Consider the willful scorching of the earth, over-fishing, wasteful hunting, excessive and dangerous recycling of resources, and other similar "injustices" against the ways of nature share in the responsibility for this ecological spiraling down.
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If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.
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A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place — like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard.
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So much of learning to be an American is learning not to let your individuality become a nuisance.
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I don't drive often, because the parking makes it too much of a nuisance. And I could never go back to commuting or anything. I'd just get fed up with it.
