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It's not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can't imagine that they will ever be gone.
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My first visit to West Berlin was in February 1983. The drive through East Berlin, the fact that West Berlin was surrounded by a wall that was more than 100 miles long - the absurdity and intensity of it really knocked me out.
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Americans are poorly served by their media, you know, for the war machine and propaganda machine and the global empire and they're poorly served by what they are being told is representative government.
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I wouldn't want to roll the dice on Kabul by myself, because I really think getting killed is definitely a possibility there. A very good possibility.
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Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians.
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I continually remind myself to live by a code. It's very important to me. I've got a bad temper.
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America has 2.2 million of it's citizens incarcerated. It's a statistic we should be ashamed of.
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Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.
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Sometimes when you meet a musician you are a fan of, and he or she isn't the friendliest person, you walk away from the experience wondering if you will ever be able to listen to their music again.
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It is impossible, after a certain point, to go back to a previous way of life, a previous way of thinking.
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We spend millions of dollars to remove pain from our lives. It's why so many people get hooked on painkillers. The body becomes addicted to painlessness. That tells you a lot.
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While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that much over the centuries. I do not believe the dented wisdom my father used to extol, that homosexuality was a sure sign of a civilization in decline.
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I mean Black Flag happened. I was lucky. I don't think I could have put together something with one percent of that oomph on my own.
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I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back.
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I see walking bombs on the street Hearts not beating, but ticking
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You are the untold story. You are the impassioned truth wanting to scream its existence, to be forever trapped by a strong hand clapped firmly over the mouth of my soul.
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All my big heroes are literary, writers.
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Castle Face Records, run by The Oh Sees main man, Johnny Dwyer is always worth checking in with.
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If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back.
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You can't get your head around something if you're yelling.
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Disappointment always arrives before hope and the darkness of night comes before the dawn. Don't lose hope now because things will brighter with the new day.
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If you listen to the way I speak and watch the way I conduct myself - there's nothing about me that's rock n' roll. It's like, 'Hello, I'm in a rock n' roll band'. 'No, you're a narc.'
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Rush Limbaugh makes money getting simpleminded people to feel good about their intellectually undernourished brain spasms. He's very good at it, and I scarcely believe a fraction of what he says.
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I would never be innovative enough to "blaze my own trail," I'm just trying to be interesting. So I don't look to anyone else as far as inspiration.