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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The government that came into power after the April 1994 elections was going to need a budget. It was drafted by our finance minister, Derek Keys, and he convinced them of the necessity to stay within the free-market principles that had been in force in South Africa for decades.
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When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
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I just do what I do. I like to make music.
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That was pretty wild to be shooting at Universal Studios. It was my second film and to be on the backlot at night with the fake rain and lightning and you look up and there's the Bates Motel house and all of a sudden Anthony is talking to you, man. There I am with a crew of one hundred and fifty people around, but you're in between this little space called action and cut talking to Norman Bates - I mean my God! You know what I mean? It's been a wild ride.
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Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.
