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" If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America. "

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" Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely. "

" It has been hard to get my head around how Justice Antonin Scalia rationalizes his decisions. His body blow to the Voting Rights Act was a head scratcher, but at least he was calm when he attempted to justify his odd logic. "

" This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles. "

" I think a lot of Americans have never been all that hungry. They've never had war on their shore, and they've never suffered the way other cultures have suffered. I'm not saying we should go suffer. Not at all. I'm saying we should be more aware of how other cultures exist. "

" Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good. "

" Creating problems is easy. We do it all the time. Finding solutions, ones that last and produce good results, requires guts and care. "

" I don't know how much you follow current events. For some, there's not enough time to keep up on what's happening; for others, the news is too depressing, and peering too deeply fills one with boiling frustration all too quickly. "

" I have to do things for myself, and if those standards are set high, then it's up to me to pass or fail. "

" In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground. "

" It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it. "

" I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine. "

" I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life. "

" I love being a storyteller. I love telling stories. "

" I have always thought that change you can see and feel is best. "

" I take the work seriously, just not myself in it. "

" The Wacken festival started more than 20 years ago with just a few hundred people in attendance. Tickets now sell out before the lineup is announced. "

" America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave. "

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" 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. "

" If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard. "

" Live music is the cure for what ails ya. "

" Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor. "

" When I'm off the road, and I can really control my diet down to the calorie, I juice seven days a week. Every afternoon, whatever I have at hand, beets, carrots, ginger, whatever. I juice, literally, every single day. And on the road, I try to find fresh juice wherever I can. "

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

" I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person. "

" The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible. "

" The perpetrators of the actual bad stuff that does real and lasting harm to people, like leakage of industrial chemicals into water systems, seem to get not so much as a second glance; the bloviation from media pundits and think tanks creates false problems that waste time and energy debunking. "

" Lou Reed's music has been in the lives of millions of people all over the world for decades. He had a truly universal presence and was respected by musicians across all genres. "

" I have not the smarts or patience for political office. "

" I hate painting with a broad brush, but I think the birther thing, at its root, is racist. The guy was born in Hawaii. A black guy is president. It's cool. Get over it. Just deal with it. There's nothing you could show these birther people that would shut them up. "

" I'm a good authoritarian figure; I don't know why. 'Can you be a cop?' Sure. 'Can you be a Marine?' Absolutely. Well, at least in a movie. "