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" I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation. "
Henry Rollins
Boring
Obligation
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" Songs sung under duress are often very powerful. "
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" 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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" Guns are part of the American identity. "
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" The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible. "
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" One of the most insane environments I have ever spent time in is a gun range. There we are, all in a line, armed to the teeth, firing away. "
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Time
Teeth
" Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions. "
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Service
Perfect
" Even though I am not hungry when I get up, I try to eat to get me ready for the day. Within an hour of getting up. "
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Try
Ready
" I was in Pakistan in Islamabad when Bhutto was assassinated, and the next day, you know, there's just plumes of smoke everywhere. I mean, Islamabad is on fire. "
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" My mother, a very eclectic listener, had the first Doors album and gave it to me when I expressed interest in the band. It was one of the first records I ever had. As the years passed, the babysitters who used to look after me would bring their Doors albums to the apartment, and that's how I got to hear their later work. "
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Mother
Me
Band
" 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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Spring
Summer
Listening
" To hate is to show you still care, who needs that, focus on what's really important. "
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You
Hate
Focus
" We humans are hard to deal with. We are a loud, complex and demanding bunch. Often, we are best dealt with from a safe distance and for only brief periods of time. This could be why a lot of marriages fail. "
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Distance
Safe
Why
" When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break. "
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High
You
Relationship
" With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal. "
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Risk
Life
Difficult
" I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person. "
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Topic
Guess
Person
" Nothing moves me more than the history of the United States. "
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History
Nothing
More
" Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium. "
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Artist
Giving
Yourself
" When people make my country look bad, I can't stand it. "
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Country
Stand
People
" 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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Constitution
First Amendment
Hero
" When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.' "
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Reply
Know
You
" Technically speaking, there is no music whatsoever on a CD. Lots of information, but no music. "
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Lots
Music
Speaking
" I don't mind bees and think we are all the better for having them around. I like the taste of honey. "
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Honey
Think
Like
" Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind. "
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Mind
She
Opinion
" 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. "
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Moral
New
Patience
" Republicans just can't help themselves. They get in front of a live microphone and within a few sentences are rocketing down the swiftest and most direct route to the all-you-can-eat comedian-and-talk-show-host buffet. "
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Just
Live
Within
" When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn't matter what you're shooting or how much you're being paid - it's not worth it. "
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Worth
Matter
" Unsurprisingly, Nelson Mandela had and still has many detractors. "
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Still
Had
Nelson Mandela
" Nelson Mandela will always be the face of South Africa. The traveler passing through the country will see Mandela's face almost everywhere he looks. Truly, the man is omnipresent. "
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Face
See
Man
" If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light, If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you. "
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Sun
World
Walls
" If you want to believe that humans walked with dinosaurs and the planet is a few thousand years old, that is absolutely fine with me. If you want to teach this to your kids, I don't care. If states want to teach creationism in their schools, there is nothing I can do about it, so I don't sweat it. "
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Sweat
You
Nothing