Joe Strummer Quotes
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.
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I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
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Recruiting is the hardest part of any business, but in charity, it is 10 times harder.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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Sometimes I'm happy - you can tell via Twitter. Sometimes I'm pissed off - you can tell via Twitter. I just think, at the end of the day, I don't want them to see me as a celebrity; I just want them to see me and say, 'He's like a regular person at his job right now who's mad.'
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.
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I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.
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Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals 'love' them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.
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You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.
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Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.
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The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
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My greatest fear about a world in which racial reassignment surgery becomes common is that it then becomes an expression of all kinds of class privilege. You have a truly dystopian society divided between the people who can afford to be racially altered and perfected and the ones who can't.
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All the power's in the hands of people rich enough to buy it.
