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Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control and it didn't have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realised that you either became a power or you were crushed.
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I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.
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I don't have any other message than don't forget you are alive.
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Don't forget you're alive. 'Cause sometimes when you walk around the city and you're in a bad mood, you can think, hey, wait a minute, we're alive! We don't know what the next second will bring and what a fantastic thing this is. This can get easily forgotten in the routine of life, and that's something I'm trying to bring to my attention at all times. Don't forget you're alive. We're not dead, you know. This is the greatest thing.
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There is a time to dance to techno and a time not to.
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Don't write slogans, write truths.
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When I started, they told me I only needed 3 chords and the truth... It turned out I could manage with 2 and some vague ideas.
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All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.
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Greed, it ain't going anywhere. They should have that in a big billboard across Times Square. Without people you're nothing.
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I'd like to say that people... people can change anything they want to; and that means everything in the world. Show me any country and there'll be people in it. And it's the people that make the country. People have got to stop pretending they're not on the world... It's time to take that humanity back into the center of the ring and follow that for a time... Think on that. Without people you're nothing.
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I learnt that fame is an illusion and everything about it is just a joke. I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.
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In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human beings.
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When you're out to get the honey you don't go killing all the bees.
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Strummer's Law: No input, no output.
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The future is unwritten.
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I don't want to look back. I want to keep going forward, I still have something to say to people.
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If I had five million pounds I'd start a radio station because something needs to be done. It would be nice to turn on the radio and hear something that didn't make you feel like smashing up the kitchen and strangling the cat.
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Punk rock isn't something you grow out of Punk rock is an attitude, and the essence of that attitude is 'give us some truth'.
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I`m kind of like one of those people that picks up small and interesting bits of wood and doesn`t want to let go of them. Or, you know, I`m fascinated with the wrapper on a sardine can. A little cuckoo.
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With The Simpsons you can go back to work with a keen heart.
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We`re all going to have to learn to live together and develop a greater tolerance and get rid off whatever our fathers gave us in the way of hatred between nations.
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We aren't particularly talented. We try harder!
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I like to read because it's the opposite of being on the go. Reading is the perfect antidote.
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There isn't a town in the world I haven't run amok in.
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