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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'Hey, what's the name of that nice young girl, my loyalist supporter?' I said, Mr. President, her name is Annie Ferrer. 'Will you give that girl my regards and kisses?' he asked. I said yes, of course-it was really strange.
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I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive.
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Behave simply and hold on to purity.
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The message coming back at all of us is: live without closure.
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This book could not have been written without the people of Mongolia, who allowed me to live among them for a time and who taught me their history over salted tea and vodka while the winter eased into spring.
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Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.
