Black Flag Quotes
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Back in the '80s, a lot of the images I used were from TV or from films on TV.
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Russia is tough. The history, the land, the people - brutal.
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Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.
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As miserable as life may be I hold it pretty precious
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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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My acting range is incredibly limited and narrow, but I'm a good heavy. I'm a good authoritarian figure; I don't know why. "Can you be a cop?" Sure. "Can you be a Marine?" Absolutely. Well, at least in a movie.
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I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us.
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Cynicism is only intellectual sloth.
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A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.
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I understand that these people are all there to see me ride, that that's why they're in the building, and whether I have ten people, or a thousand people come out to see me, they still came out to see me, and I take that to heart.
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When I got sponsored, it symbolized a major change and a major shift in skateboarding.
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Through skateboarding, I have an open line of communication, some common ground and common ground is big man. That enables me to travel around the world and no matter where I am, or who I'm with, connect with other young people, and I can have an instant dialogue and an instant relationship based on the fact that we skateboard, and when I'm doing appearances and demos, that's not lost on me.
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They'll try to apply the rules of the day to the game, where you can't touch your board with your hands, or you can't step off your board, etc and I want nothing to do with it. It's like a game from a different planet or something and it's hard for me to relate to anybody who would think of skateboarding in such a narrow way.
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Stores can be indifferent to something new.
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I don't feel that I decided deliberately I'm going to write something and have it stand alone. Somewhere by the end I think it would probably revert to imagery.
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As a label, you have to treat every group and every record as a unique entity. I think that that has been our success, rather than relying upon a fan base.
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It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it.
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I feel like the best thing, as far as what I do with kids, is I treat them like human beings.
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When life hands you a lemon, say 'Oh yeah, I like lemons. What else you got?
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When I think of Mick Jagger still singing that he can't get any satisfaction in over forty years of being in the Rolling Stones, I have to conclude that he's either lying or not all that bright.
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You’ll never know that just sitting across a room full of people, I have transformed you into a goddess. A destroyer of despair.
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The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdresser.
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America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave.
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Knowledge without Mileage is bullshit to me.