Gerard Way Quotes

I thought if we made an album that tried to change the world, or give it hope, it would really happen. But all people found was death and destruction and misery and self-hate. I learned that the world doesn't want to be saved, and it will f**king punch you in the face if you try.

Gerard Way My Chemical Romance

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• As a little girl, I thought I'd like to get married on the beach. But I'm not the quintessential girl who had these sort of fantasies about that stuff.

  

  Mandy Moore
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  • Thought
  • Beach

• I would like to see every newspaper and every magazine have a network of bureaus all over the world, gathering news.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • World
  • News
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• Monologues are self-verifying and self-referencing, a world in their own right, one with its own internal logic that strengthens with reiteration.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • World
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• I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • World
  • Trying
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• Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Time
  • Change
  • Sea

• The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
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  • Knowledge

• Writing is a creative process, and you need to have the doors and windows of your mind open so that you have the possibility of change.

  

  Hakan Nesser
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Change

• I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • World
  • Live
  • Book

• I wanted to live in the suburbs and have a white picket fence and my own bedroom. And a staircase - I thought having a staircase meant that you were a normal family. I thought somehow if you could transplant us to the suburbs, we would become a normal family. But in retrospect, I'm so grateful I grew up in the Chelsea.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
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• As a champion and one of the best fighters in the world, guys should always step up to the plate and want to fight Jon Jones.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Up
  • World
  • Best

• There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • World
  • Energy
  • Kind

• The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Back
  • Ant

• Education, doing homework, is the way to lift up girls. Around the world, where girls are educated, the economy and the standard of living rise.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Up
  • World
  • Education

• I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Life
  • Real
  • Soul

• Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • World
  • Women
  • Peace

• I can say with absolute certainty that I will run for one of two offices: my state Senate seat or for the governor. I'm still trying to decide, but I do think people are ready for a change from the partisan, very fractured leadership we have in Texas.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • People
  • Trying
  • Change

• My name, my real name, is Tracy. I always thought I was like a boy named Sue. So I made my friends call me 'Tray.'

  

  Ice T
  • Real
  • Friends
  • Boy

• This simple truth is the essence of my message to Muslims throughout the world: know who you are, who you want to be, and start talking and working with whom you are not. Find common values and build with fellow citizens a society based on diversity and equality.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • World
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  • Society

• For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.

  

  Plato
  • Money
  • Value
  • Fortune

• I was in a band at school, and almost from the day we started, I started writing songs, just because that seemed what you did.

  

  Jamie Lawson
  • Writing
  • School
  • Band

• According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life.

  

  Questlove
  • Life
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  • Dad

• I thought if we made an album that tried to change the world, or give it hope, it would really happen. But all people found was death and destruction and misery and self-hate. I learned that the world doesn't want to be saved, and it will f**king punch you in the face if you try.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • World
  • Change
  • Thought