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I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#beat #book #comic #comic book #doing

Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future. ↗

— Gary Ross

#change #complexity #contradiction #each #else

The uprising in Egypt was initiated by the young generation. The uprising achieved two things. One is it made the lives of dictators impossible. Today, if you are looking for a safe job, don't become a dictator. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#become #dictator #dictators #egypt #generation

I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a heritage of culture and values and not of bombs and missiles... How can a nation allow a regime to instill fear, take away the people's freedom and shock the young generation that seeks its way out of the dictatorial Iran. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#away #bombs #call #corrupt #culture

It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut. ↗

— John L. Phillips

#becoming #career #goals #happened #kind

Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back. ↗

— Madeleine Peyroux

#amount #artists #back #columbia #companies

I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along. ↗

— Michael Phelps

#along #back #change #change things #coming

I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn't know a lot about him. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#beatles #big #big country #bowie #country

In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#beginning #developmental #epistemology #genetic #never

I don't think for a minute we went to Iraq for oil. It just so happened that it had oil. But I think we'll come out of the Iraqi situation with a call on their oil at market price. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#come #had #happened #i #i think