Black Flag Quotes
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I'd like to rid myself of writing, to surrender, to release the venom. And hopefully at some point, I'll be a happy, well-adjusted guy and I'll have no need for all that 'art.'
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There's nothing new about the government protecting corporations and calling it the freeing of the world or bringing democracy to bereft nations.
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We're just very belligerent, and I'm not trying to put Americans down, by and large I think we're nice people, but we operate with the information we're given and we are limited by the ignorance that is kind of injected into the media and into the TV shows.
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Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations.
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No child asks to get born, so when they are here, they should be shielded from any possible horror.
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I'm always looking, people are always presenting and I have found that every year of my life there's been great bands. All over the world, all the time. So when someone goes, "Music sucks now!" I'll go, "I don't think so. Not over at my house."
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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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My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection.
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We occupy the planet with a vengeance. We seek to dominate it.
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I'll be here tomorrow If I can make it through today.
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If the truth is told how I want to be remembered... as someone who cared. Someone who worked really hard and someone who didn't sit around.
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Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.
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I'm not much of an improv guy. That's a talent I don't have.
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I contribute a large amount of money to the Southern Poverty Law Center, so I'm on their mailing list for all their Klan Watch newsletters. I'm very well aware of White Power movements in America.
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I recycle and try to be nice to the earth. But flora and fauna have always interested me, and it is because of so many years of summer camp and growing up in DC with Rock Creek Park fairly near me, or Glover Park; I lived in Glover Park for a while and that park was in my backyard.
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Don't push me I've got a corner at my back I've nowhere to go except over you.
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Imagine someone so infatuated by a band that they have every different pressing of every album the band made. Most of the time, the only difference in the album is the matrix number or a different 'made in' notation on the back cover or label. This is enough to make some people extremely excited. Actually, much more than excited.
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I am neither pro- nor anti-gun. I am gun-conscious.
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In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record.
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I do a lot of walking around in game parks, rain forests, places like that, but it's not like I'm camping in them as much as my day walks. I've done that all over the world, not like with a backpack on my back living out in the woods for several days. When I travel abroad, it's more the city that captures my interest.
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Some people tell me that they like what I do, which is great, of course. The perfect irony and truth is that I need them much more than they need me.
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I warn people, your 40s will require massive amounts of humor and humility.
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If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations.
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Perfection. I have been waiting all my life to be with you. My heart slams against my ribs when I think of the slaughtered nights I spent all over the world waiting to feel your touch.