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" War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times. "
Henry Rollins
Fragile
War
Very
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" In Israel, there's a lot to learn from anyone, because to live there you've got to deal with the truth. Things happen real fast. Your day goes from cool to catastrophic in one second. Israelis know that the cafe you're in could blow up, or the shopping mall, and they rock that. "
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" I remember when Martin Luther King was assassinated. I was up early watching television and watched the announcement. I didn't understand what the word 'assassinated' meant. "
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" We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success. "
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" I don't mind The Boss. I think he's an honest guy. I have some of his records, not all of them. I've met a couple of the E-Street guys, and they seem really cool. "
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" Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say that information on brain injury in football was withheld from them. "
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" I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper. "
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" Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp. "
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" People like Jefferson, Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony and M. L. K. are larger than life to me. I find myself staring at photographs of Lincoln almost in disbelief that he was a man who walked the earth and not merely some fiction writer's creation. "
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" I'm terrified of motorcycles. I've been on one a couple of times. I did not like it. "
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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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People
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" As the middle class is predated upon with an ever greater malicious intensity, their children stand to lose more and harder than their parents ever did. "
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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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Process
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" Mr. Christ, I read you as an infinitely patient entity who, as they say, often works in mysterious ways, a rebel unafraid to take the tougher, less traveled paths. Seems to me you're playing the long game. Is that why more states are coming out in favor of marriage equality? Is that why the Affordable Care Act is now with us? "
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" I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of. "
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" One person's disaster is another person's talking point. "
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Person
" Florida is a crazy place, and I have played some of the wildest shows of my life here. "
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Crazy
Place
" I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back. "
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" When the movie comes out, what anybody thinks of it doesn't really matter to me. I don't go to the wrap party. I don't go to the premiere. "
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" I'd like to talk to Sean Hannity in a controlled environment and say, 'O.K., you can't interrupt and jump up and down like a professional wrestler.' "
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" I try to be well informed. I don't know how well I do all the time, but I try nonetheless. "
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" Marriage equality is a term so ridiculous on its face that when you hear it mentioned, you would think you were in Riyadh. Years from now, perhaps we can lose the equality part, the same-sex part and call it what it is - marriage. "
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" 'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come to visit. "
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