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" I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do. "
Henry Rollins
Wonder
Why
Off
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" I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone. "
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" If the Constitution was a movie, the Preamble would be the trailer, the First Amendment the establishing shot, the 13th the crowd pleaser and the 14th the ultimate hero scene. "
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" I mean Black Flag happened. I was lucky. I don't think I could have put together something with one percent of that oomph on my own. "
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" I don't know if you have ever seen the Woody Allen film 'Annie Hall,' but it is, in a way, to Los Angeles and 'Hollywood' what 'This Is Spinal Tap' is to many musicians. "
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" You might as well enjoy the day - you never know when and how painfully it could all end. "
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" Nothing brings people together more, then mutual hatred. "
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" Shirley Sherrod seems like a good and dedicated person. "
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" Those who seek to profit by division don't stand a chance. "
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" I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran. "
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" Creating problems is easy. We do it all the time. Finding solutions, ones that last and produce good results, requires guts and care. "
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" Sarah Palin embarrasses herself almost immediately upon opening her mouth to speak or upon moving her fingers to send messages to her dull flock. "
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Moving
Her
" In many ways, America is on the receiving end of a pendulum that has been swung with great force, and for a long time, outward into the world. The impact is a wake-up call on every level. "
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" I have to do things for myself, and if those standards are set high, then it's up to me to pass or fail. "
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Up
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" Canadians are often a friendly bunch. "
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Canadians
" 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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War
Christmas
" Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock. "
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Rock
Everything
Me
" Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better. "
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Night
Loneliness
Life
" There's something about being under-rested and knowing that the situation is going to remain that way for quite some time that makes things more meaningful. "
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Situation
Knowing
" Rarely do I do film press because I'm so low on the food chain of the movie, and for me it's just this thing I did for four weeks before the next tour started. "
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Started
Me
Food
" Whenever any great song or album gets lost in the ether, someone is deprived of the joy of hearing it, and the great effort of those who created and recorded the work is damaged. "
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Lost
Song
Joy
" 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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Professional
Jump
Environment
" In blues music, there's a lot of borrowing, so it's often difficult to identify the originator of a song. "
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Borrowing
Song
Blues
" The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short. "
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Time
Band
Short
" Chris Christie is New Jersey's concern, not America's. "
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New
Jersey
Concern
" 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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Try
Well
Informed
" It's hard to get people at a record company to talk about music. They don't seem to want to talk about music, it's all marketing, and that's part of a record, you gotta get it out there, people have gotta hear it, but you could do it in a way that's not repulsive. "
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Talk
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" August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I've been listening to in the late spring and summer. "
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" I'd love to talk to Janeane Garafalo or Randi Rhodes or Stephanie Miller from Air America. I'm an Air American junkie; I listen to them every day. "
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Love
" As a young person, I wanted everyone to agree with me. "
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Person
" The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible. "
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