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" If it's a man's world, as they say, then men, your world is a poorly run carnage fest. "
Henry Rollins
Run
They Say
World
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" 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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" As performers grow older, I reckon there are two ways they can go. They can either be up there, playing more deeply from their guts than ever, or they can be phoning it in so crassly that it leaves a lump in your throat as you leave the venue at the end of the show. "
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" 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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" It's hard to judge literary merit. "
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" My understanding of first-degree murder is that premeditation needs to be proven. "
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" Have you ever heard the expression 'one hot mess?' I think the term was custom-made for the mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford. "
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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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" If I were a doctor, I would prescribe that you addict yourself deeply and irrevocably to music and never, ever seek cure outside of more music. It really is the best drug available. "
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" You can pass all the gun legislation you want. None of it will make me feel any more or less safe than I do right at this moment. "
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" I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down. "
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" More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another. "
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" You want to meet a bunch of really friendly people? Go to a Slayer concert. There'll be some real psychos there, but most of those people will take care of each other. "
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You
" More guns equaling more safety is a slippery slope, and what makes it so is human blood. "
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" I try to get myself up and moving as early as possible. Optimum is to be on the treadmill while it is still dark outside. "
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Try
Dark
" I have lived in public as a somewhat recognizable person since I was a teenager. Emails I answer end up posted on sites; pictures of me and someone I just met, taken by a cellphone, literally number in the thousands and are easily accessed. "
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Up
Someone
" Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock. "
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" The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs. "
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" I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work. "
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Good
I Am
" It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it. "
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You
Anything
Buy
" The public library system of the United States is worth preserving. "
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" 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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" I wonder what it's like to be from a state that is spread across a few islands way out in the Pacific Ocean, only added to the United States in 1959. Not only that but to be the birthplace of America's first black president? Pretty cool, I bet. "
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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 will remember that the Tea Party was co-opted and funded by billion-dollar corporations, and that it was supported by Fox News and other outlets with the same vigor with which they attempt to denigrate the Occupy protesters. "
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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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" I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent. "
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" What I don't want to do is go out there and not be able to mean it, you know? "
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" I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore. "
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Day