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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Imagine that every person in the world is enlightened but you. They are all your teachers, each doing just the right things to help you learn perfect patience, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion.
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I look at my time on this earth as social anthropology, at home and in work life.
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Who cares? Sometimes you need rebirth. (On the destruction of America)
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Antipsychotic drugs were a major factor in reducing the number of people living in mental hospitals in the United States, from over 500,000 in 1955 to fewer than 100,000 in 1996.
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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions that differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
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Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.
