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Harvey Pekar Quotes

I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Music Art Man Painting Trying Get

I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you're sparring or drilling techniques, you can't think of anything else.

Moving Think You Meditation See

Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.

Die Follow Patterns Spread Because

I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters.

Me Control Choices Movies Make

Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday.

Michael Jackson

Father Mirror Myself Me Face Look

I think he Oswald felt he was a failure and for the United States and for President Kennedy and all of us. He knew he was a failure at everything he tried, frustrated, with a very sad life, but he was a Marxist.

John Sherman Cooper

Life Failure Sad Think President Us

A lot of people thought the sense of self was hard-wired, but it's not at all. It can be changed very quickly, and that's very intriguing.

Miguel Nicolelis

People Thought Self Sense Changed

If you do a story about a British journalist rescuing a child from Sarajevo, then Sarajevo just becomes an exotic location, and the story's about this British journalist.

Michael Winterbottom

Child Story You Location British

I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut.

Happiness Baby Friends House She

Yes, your home is your castle, but it is also your identity and your possibility to be open to others.

Home Identity Others Open Castle

When people ask me, 'Are you happy?' I respond with, 'You've asked the wrong question.' There is a deep kind of satisfaction you get from building a company. This kind of satisfaction transcends happy, sad, hard, or easy. I seek satisfaction. I want to be positively disruptive.

Sad Happy People Me Building Deep

The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age.

Music Age Play Because Like Maybe

I think what I learned is that just because somebody says you can't talk to them or just because somebody says they don't have an answer for you, you don't stop.

Pramila Jayapal

Think You Stop Just Because Talk

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