Harvey Pekar Quotes

When I was a kid, back in the '40s, I was a voracious comic book reader. And at that time, there was a lot of patriotism in the comics. They were called things like 'All-American Comics' or 'Star-Spangled Comics' or things like that. I decided to do a logo that was a parody of those comics, with 'American' as the first word.

Harvey Pekar

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.

Jerome K. Jerome

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More than once in the history of Whole Foods Market, the company was unable to collectively evolve until I myself was able to evolve - in other words, I was holding the company back. My personal growth enabled the company to evolve.

John Mackey

GrowthHistoryMyselfWordsBack

Football is such a great game, but football players are so dull.

Steve Sabol

GreatFootballGamePlayersDull

I even asked Eleanor Roosevelt difficult questions and she loved it.

Mike Wallace

LovedQuestionsSheDifficultEven

I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s.

Luc Ferrari

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It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.

Jared Diamond

WorldOldNative AmericansReturn

Regardless of whether one is a writer or a reader, one's task consists first of all in mastering a life that is one's own, not imposed or prescribed from without, no matter how noble its appearance may be. For each of us is issued but one life, and we know full well how it all ends.

Joseph Brodsky

LifeAppearanceKnowMatterTask

When you're dealing with a big amount of money, you should have your own accountant and your own lawyer.

Johnny Van Zant

MoneyLawyerYouAccountantOwnBig

A very tiny percentage of people with mental illness are also violent. We know this. The constant linking of the two together in national media is so misleading.

Chirlane McCray

TogetherPeopleMediaKnowTwoTiny

That's what the gas is about, that's what the bloating is about and that's what the fat storage is about.

Suzanne Somers

FatStorageGasAbout

I am a spacer. It is what and who I am. It is my cause and my life. I am not an enthusiast, a fan, or supporter. It is what I exist to do here on Earth. And there are many of us; some, like Elon Musk, are very high profile.

Rick Tumlinson

LifeI AmMy LifeEarthHighHere

I do not believe that God tortures any person simply for its own sake. I believe that God enables all things to work for the greater good.

James McGreevey

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