Joe Strummer Quotes
It's good to be sent back to the underground. There's always a good side to bad things and the good side to this is that at least everyone has to go back down.Joe Strummer The Clash
Quotes to Explore
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This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.
S. C. Gwynne -
I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
K. Flay -
The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
Zadie Smith -
I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
Jack Irons Pearl Jam -
I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.
Randy Pausch -
A Persian army being then subject to great inconveniences, for their horses are tied and generally shackled to prevent them from running away, and if an alarm happens, a Persian has the housing to fix, his horse to bridle, and his corslet to put on before he can mount.
Xenophon
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I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
Edgar Allan Poe -
He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
Ovid -
I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
Candace Bushnell -
Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
Karl Liebknecht -
I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
Patricia Cornwell -
I don't look at myself as suffering.
A. J. Langer
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
Taylor Sheridan -
It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
Xavier Dolan -
I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
There is a moment in your story when you can pinpoint the exact time you fell in love, be it with a place or a person. I can remember both like it was yesterday.
Caitriona Balfe -
Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.
Sam Kean
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I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr. -
Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.
Magnus Carlsen -
The practical result of the court's decision is that the president and all other government officials will be less likely to receive full and frank advice about their official obligations and duties from government attorneys.
Charles Ruff -
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
W. H. Auden -
You are at a point where you are ready to look into yourselves and to take the next steps that must indeed be taken.
Jane Roberts -
It's good to be sent back to the underground. There's always a good side to bad things and the good side to this is that at least everyone has to go back down.
Joe Strummer The Clash