Black Flag Quotes
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I believe that contentment or any sustained period of joy that doesn't inspire thought that leads to action almost immediately is useless.
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If I could go to Kabul and not die, I would go back to Afghanistan as soon as I could. And, that was the most interesting place that I've been to.
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Desperation is the secret to my steady employment. I am not interested in downtime. I really like to keep working all the time and I always feel like I'm in the mail room of life; working up.
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But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.
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I can't imagine being sixty years of age and playing music I wrote when I was in my twenties. I would rather sail the sea of consequence to new lands. Laps around the shallow end of the pool, not for me.
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Have you ever heard the expression 'one hot mess?' I think the term was custom-made for the mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford.
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Whenever any great song or album gets lost in the ether, someone is deprived of the joy of hearing it, and the great effort of those who created and recorded the work is damaged.
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What does New York sound like? For me, the Charlie Parker at the Royal Roost recordings on the Savoy label are the total embodiment of the New York music experience.
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He looked at her Something Turned cancerous He was in love.
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I don't know if you have ever seen the Woody Allen film 'Annie Hall,' but it is, in a way, to Los Angeles and 'Hollywood' what 'This Is Spinal Tap' is to many musicians.
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What makes me uncomfortable about [Barack] Obama is what makes me uncomfortable about any young politician who has not yet been bloodied inside the Beltway.
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I've never killed anybody... but I've definitely thought about it.
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I know you’ll never love me but maybe you’ll stay for awhile.
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The tasks I set out for myself are what I do to beat the perfect pointlessness of life.
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All I have is me. Over-worked, under-appreciated, middle-aged, and shriveled up.
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I have lived in public as a somewhat recognizable person since I was a teenager. Emails I answer end up posted on sites; pictures of me and someone I just met, taken by a cellphone, literally number in the thousands and are easily accessed.
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All of the things that the bible warns you of being: jealous, covetous, murderous, selfish, etc., that's kind of how humans are.
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I beg young people to travel. If you don't have a passport, get one.........the re are lessons that you can't get out of a book that are waiting for you at the other end of that flight. A lot of people - Americans and Europeans - come back and go, "ohhhhh." And the lightbulb goes on.
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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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For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa.
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There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's.
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Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians.
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An adult has the opportunity to enjoy the wisdom gleaned from previous decades of living and experience.
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I'm not trying to say I'm a big tough guy... I'm a typical American-waist deep in this violent culture.