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" Adolescence is a plague on the senses. "
Henry Rollins
Senses
Adolescence
Plague
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" I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you. "
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" The opportunity to write for the 'L.A. Weekly' has been one of the better breaks that has come my way in a long time. "
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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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" When people make my country look bad, I can't stand it. "
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" Dinosaur Jr. in their live capacity are a band that put me in a state of such overwhelming rock that it often takes quite a while to come down. "
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" America was cool with Saddam Hussein when he was killing Iranians. "
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" Technically speaking, there is no music whatsoever on a CD. Lots of information, but no music. "
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" I'm very boring. "
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" Each year, every city in the world that can should have a multiday festival. More people meeting each other, digging new types of music, new foods, new ideas. You want to stop having so many wars? This could be a step in the right direction. "
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" I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it. "
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" You could split hairs and bring up words like 'doo-wop' and terms like 'soul' or 'R&B', but I think pop music is what you want it to be - that's why it's pop. "
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" I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy. "
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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 think, to a great degree, we humans still divide ourselves into two species, even though we are monotypic. There are males and females. We see them as different and not equal. "
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" I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation. "
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" My laptop seems to know where I am, even if I don't. My cellphone asks me if I want directions to anywhere from the spot I am standing in. I buy a record online and Amazon.com sends me letters, telling me that people who bought what I bought also bought these other records. "
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" War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times. "
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War
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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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" Enough Americans saw fit to give president Obama a second term. I don't think there will be many people keeping their Romney/Ryan bumper stickers on their cars. "
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" I'm not harmful, just introspective. You can probably think I'm weird, but it's not harmful weird. "
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" The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can be tied to songs to such a degree that it's almost unbearable to listen to them again, as they bring back the memories so vividly. "
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" Too bad that Paul Ryan confessed to being a fan of Rage Against The Machine. By doing so, he not only begged for a bucketing by many of their fans but actually got one from the band's guitar player, Tom Morello. "
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