Black Flag Quotes
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There is a concerted effort to keep you and me, you know, the people, away from what it [war] really looks like, 'cause when you're selling war, when it's such a big industry. What they don't tell you is the rest of it and the down side of it. And so obviously there is a lot of money and a lot of time and effort being spent on that campaign "perpetual war for perpetual peace".
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Never once have I thought that Social Security would be something that would ever be available to me.
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Your commander would never lie to you. That's the vice president's job.
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While I have not ruled out the possibility of doing music, what I don't want to do is go onstage and perform old songs. I do, all the time, but I don't think it is artistically brave.
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It's hard to get along with people. As much as you try to like them and accept them as individuals, it becomes difficult because they keep getting out of line and wasting your time.
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I am a white guy in America with an education, albeit high school, but a pretty good one. Another guy from a different demographic or different ethnicity in America can look at me and say, "You take a lot for granted." Well... okay. I just live in a white male American reality, where I hear you but I don't know if I necessarily read you.
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I don't hate the government. I don't think the Second Amendment is being infringed upon.
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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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I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down.
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You can't right the wrongs because you'll never understand the cause and you'll be too busy dodging the effect.
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Rock is ironic in that, up to a certain point, you can get better and better at it if you don't mind possibly looking more and more ridiculous.
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A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere.
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Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock.
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I never thought about getting any tattoos removed.
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I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation.
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If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with almost monastic obsession. [...] You have to go at it single-mindedly and let nothing get in your way.
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Humans are pretty amazing at living pretty much anywhere and so that makes me optimistic that perhaps humanity will be able to survive itself, because the reality is that we are going to have problems with water in this century.
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There's something about being under-rested and knowing that the situation is going to remain that way for quite some time that makes things more meaningful.
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I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.
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Somewhere, someone isn’t impressed by your looks. Not all men jump through the hoops of your fire. You’re unbelievably boring to more people than you’ll ever know.
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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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Life is weird, great and dangerous.
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I am a pretty crazy person, so it's best for me to be on my own most of the time.