Black Flag Quotes
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One person's disaster is another person's talking point.
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I'm a liar. I'll rip your mind up. I'll burn your soul, I'll turn you in to me.
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Everything you do makes my body scream with loneliness.
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If someone told me I had to give back, or I'm supposed to give back, or I'm supposed to do these things, I would reject that. My actions are those of valuing and caring.
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To me, the real 'state of the union' is found in how Americans react to current events.
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Please don't think that I am one of those squishy types who can't handle reality. I have plenty of real-world things to deal with all the time. I have deadlines, meetings, I answer the phone, I get turned down, I wait in lines and am forced to pass for normal all the time.
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If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.
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The opportunity to write for the 'L.A. Weekly' has been one of the better breaks that has come my way in a long time.
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Life is weird, great and dangerous.
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The public library system of the United States is worth preserving.
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Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.
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If people are being upstanding citizens of the Republic, then you have to widen the net to incarcerate them. This explains why America's prisons are full of nonviolent offenders - a perfect example of American exceptionalism.
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I'm trying to be confrontational and direct. If I lack directness then I only have myself to blame because I lack the skills to make my point clear.
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I always try to individualize everything, every person. I see individuals and that's why I've never fallen for racism, or any type or classification of people.
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My love runs deeper than the wounds.
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The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself.
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I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist.
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In communist Russia, their major organ was Pravda, which means "truth." The Russians knew how to read between the lines. They didn't take their literature literally.
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Putting out the things that I like best hasn't been the easiest way to run a label, and it still isn't because it requires finding an audience for each record.
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When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it.
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Creativity requires a lot of pass/fail/start again and it is often hard on the psyche.
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I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.
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I have had a number of less-than-enviable moments in my life when dealing with other people. I won't attempt to blunt that by saying I am not the only one.
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I was at the first Minor Threat show, and you could tell, 'This band is going to be the king of the town.' It was obvious. They were so good.