Black Flag Quotes
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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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Quite often governments are one way and the people are another.
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I have always thought that change you can see and feel is best.
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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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What you do for yourself is one thing. What you do for others is something else entirely.
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I like how I write better than how I speak.
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It is just that I don't want a wife and I don't want kids.
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I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail.
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I have been an XL fan of Devo since I was in high school in the 1970s. Their records only sound better with time.
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Live music is the cure for what ails ya.
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Think about it: No matter who you are, the past plays a large part in your life. I am all about living in the present as best as I can. Try as I might, there is only so much I am able to achieve on this front.
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I can say that American men and women in the Military are damn impressive.
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Some people see Black Friday as a much-needed break for their wallet. I see it as retail outlets showing the customers the full weight of their contempt. The frenzy to buy cheap crap from China, the human downgrade of people fighting with each other over items they can probably live without, to me, is an insult.
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It'll destroy you if you try to make it mean anything to anyone but yourself.
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I hate painting with a broad brush, but I think the birther thing, at its root, is racist. The guy was born in Hawaii. A black guy is president. It's cool. Get over it. Just deal with it. There's nothing you could show these birther people that would shut them up.
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Do it or don't. It's amazing how many things in life are that easy.
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I think we are in fact, losing free speech. We don't seem to care though. Many of us don't seem to notice. We will have to do a lot of work to bring back the American way to America.
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It's good to be able to deal with it [anger] somehow other than drinking, fighting, crashing cars, hitting your kid, your wife, your husband, your whatever. Paintbrushes, pens, movie cameras, guitars, microphones, typewriters -- these are good things. Weights. These are positive ways, good ways to deal with anger, frustration, alienation, rage. 'Cause all the other ways do nothing but hurt people.
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Not that the writers weren't good. I believe in those books and those writers very much. It's just that in the climate it's really hard to keep the lights on and the doors open when you're selling poetry and literature that appeals to a fringe audience.
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Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.
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The fact is that I am always thinking of something to build. A new book, radio show, plans for a trip somewhere. I am not a very happy person but I feel pretty even when I am working, so I guess that is how I am wired.
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I would like to become a better photographer. I'm working on that.
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I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave.
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I am the assasin of my dreams.