Gerard Way Quotes

It is not a band. It is an idea.

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• I'm 5-feet-9, I have a deep voice, and I have a way with a line. What can I do about it? I can't stay home waiting for something different. I think it's a total waste of energy worrying about typecasting.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Different
  • Home
  • Energy

• If you could find a way to peel back the skin of this world so to speak, would you really see this supernatural reality that is greater? Is it true that we fight not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers? Every young person wants to know.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • World
  • True
  • Reality

• I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Writing
  • School
  • High

• From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Book
  • Age
  • Wine

• The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People
  • World
  • History

• Through the ages, from the beginning of time, I'm certain man has covered woman's face with masks. They are, however, his masks, not hers.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Time
  • Man
  • Beginning

• I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Life
  • Music
  • Guy

• It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • People
  • Important
  • Where

• I don't like to be feared, and I can't work in conflict, I'm very bad with conflict. I try to avoid it, it paralyzes me.

  

  Nadine Labaki
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Me

• Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Earth
  • Organization
  • Ants

• I'm one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is the way I think it should be.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Think
  • Way
  • Wrong

• We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Want
  • Way
  • Wrong

• If you are a 5-year-old, you just go ahead and try something. You don't think about it. You are just a little kid.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Think
  • You
  • Try

• I always hope that people feel less alone when they see a movie that I make. That some part of the story played out on the big screen will resonate for individuals in the audience in a way that gives them comfort.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • People
  • Movie
  • Hope

• Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Loved
  • Read
  • Feared

• Girls run the world.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • World
  • Run

• In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Life
  • Art
  • Guy

• Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Different
  • Me
  • Like

• Judges cannot - nor should they try to - align our legal system with the Church's moral teaching whenever the two diverge. They should, however, conform their own behavior to the Church's standard.

  

  Amy Coney Barrett
  • Church
  • Moral

• I think I tend to destroy the better paintings, or those that have been better to a certain extent. I try and take them further, and they lose all their qualities, and they lose everything. I think I would say that I destroy all the better paintings.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Destroy
  • Qualities
  • Paintings

• I really believe in myself. I'm the hardest worker I know, and one of the best songwriters. There's a craft to it, and it takes a long time to hone it, and I work really hard at it.

  

  Arthur Godfrey
  • Time
  • Work
  • Believe

• That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music.

  

  Alvin Lee
  • Music
  • Different
  • Freedom

• The first Maiden record I ever got was 'Piece of Mind,' and I only got it because I thought the artwork was cool, and everyone talked about Iron Maiden. But they weren't necessarily the most popular metal band in America for a 12-year-old kid when I discovered them.

  

  M. Shadows
  • Mind
  • America
  • Band

• It is not a band. It is an idea.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Band
  • Idea