Black Flag Quotes
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Trying to write music, be in a band and keep it all happening is one of the hardest, morale-destroying, heartbreaking things you will ever try to do - and that's when it's going well.
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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 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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Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.
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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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Cynicism is only intellectual sloth.
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Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.
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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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I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain.
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When I am in Africa, I always have the feeling that it's where everything started. When I am in New York, I know it is where everything ended up.
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Russia is tough. The history, the land, the people - brutal.
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You know, we are one nation under a god. Yes, you were right. An angry, crack slinging god who decorates with bullets and spent condoms.
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At times, I feel America is something that I can actually put my arms around, more than a land mass and a Constitution, something far more containable and understandable. I don't exactly know what it is, but at these times I feel completely woven into 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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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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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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To see change in your own area code is very powerful. There's a little orphanage down the street from my company, and we donate $1 from the sale of each CD we sell to the orphanage.
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We've gotten involved in cat rescue we take them in and find homes for them. I've always loved cats. I saw how homeless cats were living out there. We take them in, put out flyers.
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Art comes after the fact, as a witness to certain things that have happened.
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I don't drive often, because the parking makes it too much of a nuisance. And I could never go back to commuting or anything. I'd just get fed up with it.
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There's always a latent or inferred image in my writing. And I can almost always assume if I do a drawing that it will eventually have text.
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Seasonal change in Los Angeles is often a very subtle thing. It's not as if we finally stop having to shovel the snow out of our driveways and can put our parkas back in the closet.
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I'd like to talk to Arnold Schwarzenegger, 'cause I live in California and I just want to see that canned, chemical filled body in my office.
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I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran.