Black Flag Quotes
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Imagine a 15-year-old kid saying, 'I have two moms - it's cool.' I don't fear that at all.
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Always knowing you're going to die And until then knowing you've got to live.
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We are occupants. No one has any lasting purchase on life or on the planet.
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If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America.
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After having read a lot of fiction, literature, whatever you want to call it, from Wolfe to Houellebecq, I think you have to have an understanding and insight of the human condition that is informed and motivated by a desire to immerse yourself in the human world and bring these stories to bear.
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I'm most comfortable on stage.
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I don't get a lot of choices in movies. It's not like I'm Brad Pitt and I can walk in and go here's the film I want to do and everyone runs around... I don't have that. I stand in line and do auditions. I'm there with 80 other guys trying to be that guy. Every once in awhile I luck out.
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I'm disappointed by bands left and right, every day.
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I feel close to people like Jimi Hendrix because I connect with his music. Not the man but what he did.
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America was cool with Saddam Hussein when he was killing Iranians.
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The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.
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Through getting sponsored and becoming a part of the Bones Brigade and Powell Peralta, doors were being opened. The entire culture was shifting from ramps to street, and I sort of became a poster child for that.
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Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead.
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A man with an excruciatingly painful condition wrote me and told me that his doctor said that the only cure for what he has is death, and he might want to consider suicide. What do you say to him? I doubt the, "Hey let's go get some coffee and talk" thing is going to be at all helpful.
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When I got sponsored, it symbolized a major change and a major shift in skateboarding.
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What I do is I take action because I value the position I have, the career I have, the life I live, the people I interact with, my fanbase, my friends, however you want to say that. I value those relationships and I use the opportunities they present to me.
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I think that humans have a huge capacity to carry pain and sadness. There are things that haunt us our entire lives; we are unable to let them go. The good times seem almost effervescent and dreamlike in comparison with the times that didn't go so well.
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I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. When you are too tired to eat, you really need some sleep. A few days later, things become strange. Loud noises become louder and more startling, familiar sounds become unfamiliar, and life reinvents itself as a surrealist dream.
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This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles.
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I am primarily a loner. I don't go to clubs. I don't hang out with people. I don't know many people. It's just the way it ended up. It's not a sob story; it's fine for me.
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One day, I stopped hating. I ceased all meaningless activity. I completed the circle. I Set my sights straight. Like an Arrow I flew. I stopped acting. I got tired of playing with you. Random violence and destruction Because my reason for living, my out, My excuse. What is your excuse? Destruction. Without hate, without fear, Without judgement. I am no better Than you. No-one knows this better Than I do. I just got tired of playing Parlor Games.
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I am too far gone to be rehabilitated.
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The times I have tried to get close to someone resulted in me feeling threatened and weak.
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The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser.