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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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We occupy the planet with a vengeance. We seek to dominate it.
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Almost all human who can form a sentence will eventually let you in on the fact that their lives are very difficult and sometimes very hard to manage.
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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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I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.
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No one should die when they're 50.
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My desires are foolish. The things I want are better kept to myself. The hand of silence is steady. The hard blade of silence is clean like night. The code is absolute. Silence is eternal and patient. Silence never makes a fool of itself like I have so many times.
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The more you own, the more it owns you.
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My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection.
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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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I'm always looking upwards and looking forwards and so when someone says, "Hey, would you consider a TV show?" I say, "Hell yeah, I'll consider that. I'll check that out."
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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.
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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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I am neither pro- nor anti-gun. I am gun-conscious.
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It's difficult for me to be around anyone for longer than an hour. Love, death, elation, sorrow, I just don't care all that much about any of it. I am at this point, more of an observer/journalist.
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Creating problems is easy. We do it all the time. Finding solutions, ones that last and produce good results, requires guts and care.
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I don't need to have my convictions confirmed by a show of numbers. However, being among people in front of a band leads me to believe that all is not lost, that humans, now and then, can communicate on a higher level than the political and the practical.
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I'm pessimistic. I don't think that justice always gets the right person.
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Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.
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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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It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements.
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I'm not much of an improv guy. That's a talent I don't have.
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If I were a doctor, I would prescribe that you addict yourself deeply and irrevocably to music and never, ever seek cure outside of more music. It really is the best drug available.
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I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars.
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