Joe Strummer Quotes
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Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.
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Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.
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I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.
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The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.
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The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
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When I take on a design project, I have to jet from the bookstore to the hardware shop to the lamp store and back again just to collect a small portion of the many items I need to fill a home. But, when you hit the flea market, they're all right there. From booth to booth, you have the bases covered.
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Gymnastics was my way to travelling the world.
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Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.
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I have people who say, 'You should dress up like this, or you should dress more modest; you should cover up more.' And then, at the other end of the spectrum, you have, like, 'Why are you still wearing your scarf? You're in America, you know.'
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Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
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What drives the creative person is that we see it all.
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It was gradually learned that acceptance of a somewhat higher inflation rate would not really bring somewhat higher employment.
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Every day, I kind of have in my brain a few slots of what I want to do. Like school, sleep, homework, 'Rookie,' hanging out with friends, mindless relaxation time, and then trying to do my own creative things.
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The thing about death is that it's honest.
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To stagnate in the sun, goldenly, like an obscure lake surrounded by flowers.
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For years, we just accepted the premise that the reporters from that J-school mentality of neutrality and objectivity were just laying out the facts. We just assumed that Walter Cronkite was unbiased. In hindsight, it is clear that Walter Cronkite was biased, and that he used feigned objectivity as the cudgel to change the American narrative from being a right of center one to being a left of center one.
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I can make fried tofu, boiled tofu, stuffed tofu. Cutlets and other fancy stuff, that's for other directors.
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Success is failure inside out.
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I spend most of my time in my head. You can always work out solutions and satisfactions there. Maybe you can't actually bring them about, but there's usually a pleasant pillow of time between imagining you can, and realizing you cannot.
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I'm convinced that a trade deal between the U.S. and the U.K. is in the national interest of both countries and will cement the crucial relationship that exists between us, particularly as the U.K. leaves the European Union and reaches out to the world.
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Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.
