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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We used two Princess Cruise ships. The Island Princess and The Pacific Princess. They were identical ships.
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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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Say yes to everything. 'You want me to buy you some food?' Yes. 'You want me to buy you a car?' Yes.
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People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.
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We can't value only what is easy to measure; measurable outcomes may be the least important results of learning.
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America is an open society, more open than any other in the world. People of every race, of every color, of every culture are welcomed here to create a new life for themselves and their families. And what do these people who enter into the American mainstream have in common? English, our shared common language.
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The most recent example and the most, I think, appalling example was when Martin Peretz, the owner - and I stress owner - of The New Republic fired a journalist who I think was uncommonly skilled and full of integrity and passion and all that stuff. But he had criticized regularly the former pupil and friend of Martin Peretz, Al Gore, so he was fired. That's contrarianist that went around - that did - that was not rewarded.
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Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.
