Gerard Way Quotes
I knew that I always wanted to keep making music, but I knew that comics needed to be a part of my life.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.
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The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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If you're offended, it's your problem.
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The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
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Scatter your flowers as you go; you will never go this way again.
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If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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I was lucky that I got to do films in between seasons of 'Chuck.'
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As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.
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Our marriage is strictly in name only. It has never been consummated.
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It's a good giggle to look back at yourself in your 20s. You thought you were so fierce and fabulous, and it's just embarrassing.
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I didn't know I was cool, but I was very flattered that some of the younger comedy writers came up to talk to me at the Emmys. I found that gratifying.
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A president who is concerned about an ongoing criminal investigation is almost inevitably going to do a worse job as president.
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No matter when you were born or where, puberty is the same. It's the same for your parents as it is for you - what's happening in your body dictates everything.
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In the end there is only Matisse.
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I respect everything in change and the solemn beauty of life and death... and therefore, while man is amidst the immense beauty of objective bodies, he must possess the capacity of self-perfection and must observe and represent his world with full confidence.
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I knew that I always wanted to keep making music, but I knew that comics needed to be a part of my life.
