Gerard Way Quotes

'Watchmen' is a politically charged story, and it explores exactly what a hero is, how the world would treat them and how they would react. It was the first time I read a superhero story that explored that situation. These are very real people with very real problems.

Gerard Way My Chemical Romance

• Story
• Superhero
• Politically
• Watchmen

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• I think the most important element of a power outfit is proper fit. The one item to focus on is a suit. If it's the right fit, you could wear it with a T-shirt and still convey the positive message.

  

  Garrett Neff
  • Important
  • Power
  • Focus

• I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Friends
  • Dog
  • Philadelphia

• I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.

  

  Wale
  • Me
  • Learning
  • Famous

• My mom is from Cuba, my dad is from Spain, and I grew up in Miami. So there's maybe a little more flair in me than typical Silicon Valley types.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.

  

  Maggie Cheung
  • Time
  • Doing
  • Part

• Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • History
  • Dangerous
  • Ride

• I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Women
  • Enjoy
  • Explore

• I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Quiet

• Honestly, at times, I still get bored. 'Dancing with the Stars' kept me busy, and that's what I like. When I first started fighting, I was working two jobs, and I was still going to school at the same time while training. I'm meant to be a busy person.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Time
  • School
  • Fighting

• I so never went through a bad-girl period.

  

  Maggie Siff
  • Bad
  • Girl
  • Never

• I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Women
  • Joy
  • Famous

• Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Time
  • World
  • God

• To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Real
  • Knowledge
  • Understand

• How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • Up
  • Child
  • End

• Our intent of how we're going to play doesn't change.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Change
  • Play
  • Intent

• Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Fear
  • Name
  • Increases

• All the things that are in the past are in the past.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Past
  • Things
  • In The Past

• We met because Chad was in one of my classes, and I was looking for someone to write music with. I knew that he wrote his own music, and he seemed nice, so I found out he was going to be in a practice room, practicing his trumpet. He'd already said he was too busy to hang out or hear any new people or work on any music, so I stalked him.

  

  Ian Axel
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Way
  • Idealist

• Lyndon Johnson is still the most formidable, fascinating, frustrating, irritating individual I think I've ever known in my entire life. He was huge, a huge character, not only standing six feet four, but when you talked to him, he violated the normal human space between people. He was a great storyteller. The problem was that half his stories, I discovered, weren't true.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • American
  • Funny
  • English

• I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Different
  • Thought
  • Chance

• I didn't wake up one day and say, I have to tell O.J.'s Simpson story. But what drew me to it wasn't what people have focused on over the last 20 years - meaning, the question of innocence or guilt, nor the spectacle of the trial. I was more interested in the history that led up to that point in time in 1994, which would help explain what exactly went into making the trial as fascinating as it was.

  

  Ezra Edelman
  • History
  • Story
  • Interested

• 'Watchmen' is a politically charged story, and it explores exactly what a hero is, how the world would treat them and how they would react. It was the first time I read a superhero story that explored that situation. These are very real people with very real problems.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Story
  • Superhero
  • Politically