Harvey Pekar Quotes

I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing comics weren't just kid stuff.

Harvey Pekar

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 8, 1939 - July 12, 2010

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KidTellStartedGoingJustStuff

I always believe that most people could do it. I mean obviously I didn't just sit and stand. I used to love cradling the gun and just posing with the hand cocked ready to fire the gun, and the costume helped a great deal.

Jeremy Bulloch

LoveGreatFirePeopleBelieveGun

Kate Mara is actually one of my really good friends.

Jenna Dewan

GoodFriendsGood FriendsActually

I tolerate lots of people I have no patience or respect for. Then, as soon as I can, I rat on them.

Andre Aciman

PatienceRespectPeopleI CanRat

The most important lesson to take away from allowing the minimum wage and unemployment benefit data to talk is that abstract notions of what is right, good and just should be examined from a concrete, operational point of view. A dose of reality is most edifying.

Steve Hanke

GoodRealityViewDataPoint Of View

I've never worked in a retail store, but I did sell shoes at Gimme Shoes in San Francisco, a job I was fired from.

Sophia Amoruso

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When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a bite out of somebody's face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home.

Robert De Niro

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Seeing is in itself a movement.

Robert Delaunay

SeeingMovementItself

Listening to Brunello Cucinelli is like getting your own personal tutorial with a very glamorous, fatherly professor. He is charming and solicitous, speaking in an urgent, musical voice. Associates say he is both disciplined and happy, as well as extremely meticulous. When it comes to business, he's known as savvy and calculating.

Michael Paterniti

BusinessHappyListeningVoiceSay

What does a house want to be?

Louis Kahn

HouseWantDoes

My charity is in the business of helping firefighters in any way that we can. For instance, after 9/11 we were the second-fastest charity to raise and distribute money to the widows and surviving family members of the 343 firefighters who died that day.

Denis Leary

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Time is bunk.

Douglas Adams

TimeBunk

I'm really into the human interest thing. I really like regular people.

Chelsea Handler

PeopleHumanInterestLikeReally

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