Gerard Way Quotes
The difference we wanna make is number one to let these kids know that they’re not alone, that they’re actually not that messed up and that they can do whatever they want; they can express themselves however they want, without being persecuted or called a faggot or some kind of racist thing. You know, really just to get people to get over their stuff so they can live.
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I'm a huge NASCAR fan, but I'm not a gearhead. I've never been into fixing cars. It's not because I don't like it. I would love to know more. It's just my dad never taught me that stuff because my dad wasn't a mechanic.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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Standing up on the right to trial by jury is something that, really, a lot of people should agree with, you know, both on the Right and the Left.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.
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I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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I began going to juvenile prisons. And some of these kids face some very, very tough lives. How do they handle these lives? Do they even know that if their life is bad, that they're still OK? Do they know that? Do they know that someone is thinking the same way that they're thinking?
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Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.
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It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we're telling you, 'Oh, you look old.' Be a career woman, but also, why aren't you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew?
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We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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The years teach much which the days never know.
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The world is shifting from a hegemonic era, where the United States dominated alone, to a multipolar system.
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You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.
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I felt like an outsider. The only time you get to really know guys is on the ice, and I couldn't be there.
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I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.
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Theater is where you go to find out something new that you don't know. It goes through somebody's brain and comes out in a comprehensible way that is beautiful, that's really interesting.
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As kids, we were at concerts like Michael Jackson every weekend. My first concert was Earth, Wind and Fire.
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I don't think of kids as a lower form of the human species.
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Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.
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Having a guy on a microphone yelling lines at you is counter to a lot of acting techniques.
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The Forest of Arden, where I grew up, is where 'As You Like It' is set. It was idyllic.
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The difference we wanna make is number one to let these kids know that they’re not alone, that they’re actually not that messed up and that they can do whatever they want; they can express themselves however they want, without being persecuted or called a faggot or some kind of racist thing. You know, really just to get people to get over their stuff so they can live.
