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" I know I was a generic dysfunctional child, but I think a lot of people are. "

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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. "

" For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes. "

" Fish is the only kind of respirating thing that I consume. Everything else I don't want any part of. "

" There's tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours a day getting in online arguments with other people who also choose to waste their time. "

" But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work. "

" I was happy to find out that when on tour, Dolly Parton doesn't use hotels but stays on her bus every night, to the point of having her buses shipped from Austria to Australia so she can tour the way she sees fit. I used one of her buses once - an honor. "

" I was at the first Minor Threat show, and you could tell, 'This band is going to be the king of the town.' It was obvious. They were so good. "

" If I'm jetlagging, and I've missed some meals, and it gets to that point in a movie that you're supposed to cry, I'll let my defences down from around my inherent standing level of cynicism, and I'll cry. "

" For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa. "

" Trayvon Martin did not need to die. "

" I've never heard Daft Punk; I've never heard a track of theirs in my life. They're the two guys with motorcycle helmets on? "

" To me, the real 'state of the union' is found in how Americans react to current events. "

" It is instilled in thousands of American males from an early age that one of their requirements is to be able to both dish out and take a lot of pain. They are taught the rules of this road in gyms, rings, backyards and fields all over America. "

" More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another. "

" My father did not rock. He just earned and hated. Don't end up like this man. "

" The only thing worse than the Pastor Terry Jones scheduled Koran burning is the fact that he canceled the proposed event. "

" Rock is ironic in that, up to a certain point, you can get better and better at it if you don't mind possibly looking more and more ridiculous. "

" A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere. "

" 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. "

" I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in. "

" With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal. "

" As a young person, I wanted everyone to agree with me. "

" Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact. "

" I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down. "

" America was cool with Saddam Hussein when he was killing Iranians. "

" 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. "

" Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this genre for its intensity, extremism and underlying irony: You have to be alive to play it and listen to it. "

" I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone. "