Raymond Pettibon Quotes

Anyone living, especially your peers, is a threat. You're judging them, they're judging you. This sort of criticism is as close to human nature as you can get. That can be a good thing sometimes. Jealously, rancor, competition, those can be good things in art. But it mostly puts you in a dangerous and disadvantageous position, and one that just takes away from you so much.

Raymond Pettibon Black Flag

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• Criticism
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• Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.

  

  Magdalena Neuner
  • Home
  • Feeling
  • Me

• People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • People
  • Different
  • Light

• On the national security front, Rick Santorum is superior to any candidate I know.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Know
  • Security
  • Front

• If I got hit by a truck, I would want to go to hospital, but if something is bothering me I will see my naturopath.

  

  Pamela Sue Martin
  • Want
  • Me
  • Truck

• Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.

  

  Adam Green
  • People
  • Money
  • Comedy

• I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Personal

• The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from 'The Great Gatsby.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Great
  • Kind
  • Literature

• No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Christian
  • Civilization

• The presumption that an extant mode is efficient if the expected net gain is negative can nevertheless be rebutted by showing that the obstacles to implementing an otherwise superior feasible alternative are 'unfair.'

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • Obstacles
  • Negative
  • Unfair

• I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And - and the actual depiction of three wise monkeys. And I began collecting it over the years. And I kind of figured that I might be the - the fourth monkey, the feel no evil monkey.

  

  Mackenzie Phillips
  • Evil
  • Wise
  • Speak

• When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• I worked at a hospital parking cars and getting folks in and out of the hospital as they would come in for their appointments.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Getting
  • Hospital
  • Parking

• Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Mind
  • Science
  • Political

• You can be vegetarian and eat fish. It's your choice, just say: 'I am what I am.' There are no hardcore divisions anymore.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Choice
  • Fish
  • Vegetarian

• Why is computer science a good field for women? For one thing, that's where the jobs are, and for another, the pay is better than for many jobs, and finally, it's easier to combine career and family.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Good
  • Women
  • Family

• People now tell me it's a good thing I stayed away from teen films. Well, it wasn't my choice. I wasn't hired.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Good
  • Teen

• A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Man
  • Poetry

• There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of beachfront property in California. It is going to be scarce, it is going to be expensive.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • California
  • Going
  • Example

• When traveling is made too easy and comfortable, its spiritual meaning is lost. This may be called sentimentalism, but a certain sense of loneliness engendered by traveling leads one to reflect upon the meaning of life, for life is after all a travelling from one unknown to another unknown.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Life
  • May
  • Lost

• Though typically paired with words like organic, harvest, or natural, almost all granolas are fattening.

  

  Harley Pasternak
  • Words
  • Harvest
  • Organic

• There are at least 18 dead in this barn. We've found the remains of at least 18. I'll think about this for months. I'll see it when I try to sleep. This is something you can't forget.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Sleep
  • Dead
  • Remains

• I think that's the great thing for us - we're a band full of songwriters, and we're capable of writing all kinds of songs.

  

  Matthew Ramsey Old Dominion
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Band

• Anyone living, especially your peers, is a threat. You're judging them, they're judging you. This sort of criticism is as close to human nature as you can get. That can be a good thing sometimes. Jealously, rancor, competition, those can be good things in art. But it mostly puts you in a dangerous and disadvantageous position, and one that just takes away from you so much.

  

  Raymond Pettibon Black Flag
  • Art
  • Sometimes
  • Competition