Black Flag Quotes
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We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost.
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I think it's very sad that the political landscape is so dotted with religious extremists who feel the need to infringe upon the lives of decent, free and harmless Americans who want nothing more than to be in love and to spend the rest of their lives together.
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I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life.
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More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another.
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Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn't mean anything to me.
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Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches.
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The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can be tied to songs to such a degree that it's almost unbearable to listen to them again, as they bring back the memories so vividly.
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It's hard to keep your backbone straight in America. It's easy to turn into that which you hate, and to get smashed.
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When I see the hatred exacted at Mr. Obama - you know, he lowered your taxes, killed your number one bad guy and got your guys out of Iraq - I don't understand why he seems to inflame people so much. You know, unless, unless there's a race problem.
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If there was a god, he wouldn't let a guy walk right up and shoot you in the face now would he? That's right, now you get the picture. Truth burns doesn't it?
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The best revenge is to always survive yourself.
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I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.
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For me, returning to Los Angeles annihilates the memories of where I have just been with an astonishing speed.
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If you are a musician who has released albums, it would perhaps be morbidly interesting to know how much you would be owed if everyone who now has your music had actually bought your record.
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In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song.
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Being unique is never easy, and often, by the time culture catches up with you, there are only a few people who notice.
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The best compliment I get every year is that a band will write me and say, 'We were just on tour, and we had people coming to our show saying they had never heard us before they heard us on your show.'
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I've enjoyed, to a certain extent, any country I've been in, of course like Serbia and Croatia can be very restrictive and oppressive, and frustrating, but they're still very beautiful.
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For me, speaking to anyone - on a stage, in an elevator - I am looking for impact and connection. The same goes for writing.
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There's no retirement, there's just a few years of non-work by the fire with someone bringing you some tea and relative peace and playing with the grandchildren.
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As far as poetry, I don't know if I've ever written any. I've read a lot. I just write and it comes out in different forms and shapes. I don't know if I'm any good at it I just really go for it and I'm very prolific book wise only because I own the company. No one tells me 'no' around here.
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I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent.
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Citizens United didn't work. Hey, Koch brothers, Karl Rove, Shellgame Adelson: Democracy trumps money sometimes.
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As a young person growing up in Washington, D.C., summers were hot, humid and relentless. My friends and I grew more restless and adventurous with every passing year.