Kurt Busiek quote: "Maybe I had a "secret identity", but then when you think about it, don't we all? A part of ourselves very few people ever get to see. The part we think of as "me". The part that deals with the big stuff. Makes the real choices. The part everything else is a reflection of."

I created lots of characters in high school and college, and the first character I created in pro co...
KURT BUSIEK

At one point, I worked up a list of five requirements for a superhero: superpowers, a costume, a cod...
KURT BUSIEK

The reason I quit being a sales manager over twenty years now is because I hate elevator pitches. I ...
KURT BUSIEK

I wrote 'Marvels,' which was about a guy who had two daughters, and I wrote 'Astro City ...
KURT BUSIEK

I don't view Twitter as a promotional tool but as a really, really, really cool cocktail party.
KURT BUSIEK

When I realized that people actually wrote comics, that it was a job people could do, I thought, ...
KURT BUSIEK

Over the Thanksgiving holiday I took time to reflect on what is most important to me and realized I ...
KURT BUSCH

My cash cows, the slick magazines, were put out of business by TV.
KURT VONNEGUT

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the ki...
KURT VONNEGUT

Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders ...
KURT VONNEGUT

Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been...
KURT VONNEGUT

If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely y...
KURT VONNEGUT

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.
KURT VONNEGUT

I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
KURT VONNEGUT

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know...
KURT VONNEGUT

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
KURT VONNEGUT

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
KURT VONNEGUT

Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudic...
KURT VONNEGUT

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thin...
KURT VONNEGUT

I don't like to have gimmicks. I don't like to have gadgets and stuff. I just like to go out...
KURT ANGLE

Pro wrestling is not fake; it's sports entertainment. We go out there and we perform, and a lot ...
KURT ANGLE

In the aftermath of the oh-so-predictable crash, the Bitcoin fanatics have begun marshaling out excu...
KURT EICHENWALD

If I wouldn't have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.
KURT COBAIN

'Bunk' is a comedy game show where, each week, three of my favorite comedians compete in a s...
KURT BRAUNOHLER

Eric Bryant and Ethan Berlin, the creators of 'Bunk,' asked me to come get involved in very ...
KURT BRAUNOHLER

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so ...
KURT VONNEGUT

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll h...
KURT VONNEGUT

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can an...
KURT VONNEGUT

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our...
KURT RUSSELL

When it came to dire warnings about Obamacare, the Republicans were the kings of 'swing and a mi...
KURT EICHENWALD

'Bunk' is better than 'Wheel of Fortune' because we have a wheel, just like them, bu...
KURT BRAUNOHLER

I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evenin...
KURT VONNEGUT

To a degree, the West is reaping what it sowed from a major strategic blunder in the aftermath of 9/...
KURT EICHENWALD

Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on m...
KURT COBAIN

I understand with love comes pain, but why did I have to love so much?
KURT LEWIN

Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical ...
KURT VONNEGUT

The mistrust of government that blossomed in the late '60s has become a chronic and in some ways...
KURT ANDERSEN

I've learned in most areas of my life, to bounce heated choices off other people. Co-workers, my...
KURT SUTTER

There are many young Americans that are very distant from our political process.
KURT ANGLE

can't believe it, but it's next.
KURT ANGLE

here.
KURT ANGLE

It's true; this stuff can't be made up, folks.
KURT ANGLE

What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and c...
KURT VONNEGUT

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowled...
KURT VONNEGUT

In my new IFC comedy game show, 'Bunk,' we actually use our intern Patrick as a human timer ...
KURT BRAUNOHLER

The entire New York comedy scene has moved to L.A. - it's bled the New York comedy scene dry.
KURT BRAUNOHLER

I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This ena...
KURT THOMAS

Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any othe...
KURT VONNEGUT

... this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so inc...
KURT VONNEGUT

They laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same.
KURT COBAIN

I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake o...
KURT COBAIN

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
KURT COBAIN

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much wi...
KURT VONNEGUT

We are all what we pretend to be, but, we had better be very careful what we pretend.
KURT VONNEGUT

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a ver...
KURT VONNEGUT

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds o...
KURT VONNEGUT

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
KURT VONNEGUT

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than befo...
KURT VONNEGUT

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order, so they'll have...
KURT VONNEGUT

There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos inste...
KURT VONNEGUT

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.
KURT VONNEGUT

I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled Science Fiction and I would like out, par...
KURT VONNEGUT

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.
KURT VONNEGUT

Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us hu...
KURT VONNEGUT

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to have without reser...
KURT VONNEGUT

My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spine...
KURT COBAIN

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.
KURT COBAIN

The worst crime is faking it
KURT COBAIN

Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must hav...
KURT TUCHOLSKY

Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but...
KURT VONNEGUT

You do not boo an Olympic Gold Medalist. I'm the best in the world. I came here for you. You dont' b...
KURT ANGLE

Join me in Olympic Heros for Abstinence. The best sex is no sex.
KURT ANGLE

Mom hates dad, Dad hates mom, it all makes you feel so sad.
KURT COBAIN

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes a...
KURT COBAIN

Love is a gift. You can't buy it, you can't find it, someone has to give it to you. Learn to be rece...
KURT LANGNER

It was a thunderingly beautiful experience -- voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell.
KURT VONNEGUT

We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrol...
KURT VONNEGUT

My first year of pro ball I played in the Northwest league and made the all-star team, and the next ...
KURT RUSSELL

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
KURT VONNEGUT

It took me a few years to explain to my colleagues and my mentors and the people that I looked up to...
KURT ANGLE

I teased Randy Orton because he started using my finish, the Angle Slam. I said, 'Hey, I don'...
KURT ANGLE

Plenty of people detested Michael Jackson before his death wiped away the world's collective mem...
KURT EICHENWALD

When Jack Swagger copies my Ankle Lock and Randy Orton does my Angle Slam, it's disrespectful. I...
KURT ANGLE

And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You ...
KURT LODER

I often set two alarm clocks because I'm afraid the first one won't actually make me get up.
KURT ANDERSEN

So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's jus...
KURT LODER

The myth that people with epilepsy swallow their tongues is very injurious. When I had seizures with...
KURT EICHENWALD

Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this messag...
KURT VONNEGUT

I don't blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understan...
KURT COBAIN

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to rem...
KURT VONNEGUT

I have no degree in biochemistry, neither do I have one in mechanical engineering, as the Army saw f...
KURT VONNEGUT

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the countr...
KURT VONNEGUT

I sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection.
KURT COBAIN

I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.
KURT COBAIN

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.
KURT COBAIN

There's nothing better than having a baby. I've always loved children. I used to work summer...
KURT COBAIN

I'm a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there's a bunch of people that are conce...
KURT COBAIN

We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves.
KURT COBAIN

I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head.
KURT COBAIN

I'm not well-read, but when I read, I read well.
KURT COBAIN

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes a...
KURT COBAIN

If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!
KURT COBAIN

Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.
KURT COBAIN

I really miss being able to blend in with people.
KURT COBAIN

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.
KURT COBAIN

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.
KURT COBAIN

The sun is gone, but I have a light.
KURT COBAIN

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
KURT COBAIN

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American f...
KURT VONNEGUT

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
KURT COBAIN

The worst crime is faking it.
KURT COBAIN

Rather be dead than cool.
KURT COBAIN

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since...
KURT VONNEGUT

You don't know what bravery is until you overcome fear.
KURT ELLING

There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becom...
KURT HUBER

I navigate through the world with the excitement and determination of a child. That's why I'...
KURT SUTTER

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, &...
KURT COBAIN

It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.
KURT COBAIN

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
KURT COBAIN

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
KURT VONNEGUT

The reality is that we are all economists. We all deal with scarcity as we make choices and calculat...
KURT BILLS

There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of ...
KURT VONNEGUT

This is fun. This is entertainment, right guys?
KURT BUSCH

I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done...
KURT COBAIN

I grew up as a very sarcastic person. I was always the class clown, and to date girls, I had to be r...
KURT FULLER

When 'Christians' cite the Bible as the basis for secular policies, they must explain why th...
KURT EICHENWALD

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It ...
KURT VONNEGUT

There is never a shortage anywhere of lawyers eager to attack the First Amendment, as though it were...
KURT VONNEGUT

I think it's wrong for the government to subpoena records from journalists involved in national-...
KURT EICHENWALD

I now make my living by being impolite. I am clumsy at it.
KURT VONNEGUT

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are
KURT COBAIN

For a long time, I dressed like an idiot. In college, I had a fully shaved head with just two horns....
KURT BRAUNOHLER

Out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. They're cheap and ...
KURT COBAIN

If you appear in the 'Atlantic' or 'Harper's' or the 'New Yorker,' by Go...
KURT VONNEGUT

It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is be...
KURT VONNEGUT

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilitie...
KURT VONNEGUT

I've had this terrible stomach problem for years, and that has made touring difficult. People wo...
KURT COBAIN

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wro...
KURT VONNEGUT

I'm a guy who has problems with moderation. All or nothing. Binge and purge. Kill or be killed. ...
KURT SUTTER

Assess Bitcoins? All you can do is examine the trading patterns, which do not provide a real analysi...
KURT EICHENWALD

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achiev...
KURT LEWIN

I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science f...
KURT VONNEGUT

I have no problem with responsible gun owners who own weapons for self-protection, hunting, or just ...
KURT EICHENWALD

Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It a...
KURT COBAIN

This is Sunday, and the question arises, what'll I start tomorrow?
KURT VONNEGUT

I love how my sport reaches out to people with the music and story lines, the glory of standing up f...
KURT BROWNING

Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded t...
KURT VONNEGUT

My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be...
KURT COBAIN

Bitcoins are not a real investment; they are bets inside a casino. If the price goes back up, don...
KURT EICHENWALD

All the great game show hosts have a signature 'look,' from Bob Barker's year-round Braz...
KURT BRAUNOHLER

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Pra...
KURT VONNEGUT

I've always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important thin...
KURT COBAIN

In Canada, you can't even have a barbecue in your backyard without being attacked by a moose or ...
KURT ANGLE

I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge...
KURT RUSSELL

Man's inhumanity to man is as old as humanity itself. Some people just do evil things. Most do n...
KURT SUTTER

My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosom...
KURT COBAIN

I remember seeing Tony Bennett on television. He was the only guy in the orchestra who was wearing a...
KURT ELLING

Too often, it seems, conservatives have scorned experts as incompetent, biased, or otherwise worth i...
KURT EICHENWALD

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment ...
KURT VONNEGUT

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best th...
KURT VONNEGUT

Basically, whenever someone says they're wrong, conservatives too often fall back on claims that...
KURT EICHENWALD

When I'm being funny, I try not to offend. I don't think much of what I've done has been...
KURT VONNEGUT

I consider myself very fortunate. I have a beautiful wife who supports my work and is raising our da...
KURT ELLING

John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down.
KURT COBAIN

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very muc...
KURT VONNEGUT

I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male - or the America...
KURT COBAIN

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying...
KURT COBAIN

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. -Kurt Vonnegut.
KURT VONNEGUT

You know what i hate about rock? I hate tie-dyed tee shirts.
KURT COBAIN

There is nothing so practical as a good theory
KURT LEWIN

Throughout my life, I've always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I&...
KURT COBAIN

For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man...
KURT RUSSELL

I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn't wa...
KURT COBAIN

I listened to a lot of King Crimson back in the day.
KURT ELLING

Discovering various economists, economic works, reading financial periodicals and keeping up on curr...
KURT BILLS

If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven...
KURT MASUR

People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.
KURT VONNEGUT

James Finch has always had pretty stout cars for the restrictor-plate races and I know we'll be ...
KURT BUSCH

The Daytona 500 is a big race, and Darlington is just as big of an event, and a lot of people get ex...
KURT BUSCH

Newman and I were friends. We were great teammates, and he needs to check his trophy case on that Da...
KURT BUSCH

I started to be really proud of the fact I was gay even though I wasn't
KURT COBAIN

I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn't identify with ...
KURT COBAIN

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a...
KURT VONNEGUT

We are in a democratic society. It's our job to question.
KURT RUSSELL

Since scarcity is the basic economic problem, if it does not exist then there is no reason for my ec...
KURT BILLS

The doctor gave me several warnings: Never tell anyone unless necessary, because I might be ostraciz...
KURT EICHENWALD

I never understood using Kickstarter for commercial purposes. If you want to raise money for commerc...
KURT BRAUNOHLER

I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This e...
KURT THOMAS

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begin...
KURT COBAIN

I'd rather be dead than cool.
KURT COBAIN

We're focusing on particular works films, books, pieces of music, architecture that deserve the na...
KURT ANDERSEN

It is so much the first among equals of that world.
KURT ANDERSEN

It's high and low (culture), and we're casting a net wide. Almost everyone knows of these things; it...
KURT ANDERSEN

We got 200 e-mails (about it). Lots of people had the same reaction. They were assigned to read it i...
KURT ANDERSEN

We're focusing on particular works ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â films, books, pieces of music,...
KURT ANDERSEN

When I talk to college students about Spy, it's like I'm describing something that happened in the 1...
KURT ANDERSEN

We believe that there is consumer demand for energy efficient homes, these classes will give contrac...
KURT ADAMS

Energy costs are a growing concern among Maine?s working families. Providing contractors with inform...
KURT ADAMS

This state followed the federal government's lead and totally deregulated our electricity markets. I...
KURT ADAMS

I'm impressed with the innovation of the students. They seem to always impress me with their underst...
KURT ADAMS

Maybe I had a "secret identity", but then when you think about it, don't we all? A part of ourselves very few people ever get to see. The part we think of as "me". The part that deals with the big stuff. Makes the real choices. The part everything else is a reflection of.

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Maybe I had a "secret identity", but then when you think about it, don't we all? A part of ourselves very few people ever get to see. The part we think of as "me". The part that deals with the big stuff. Makes the real choices. The part everything else is a reflection of.

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