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" I'm of the opinion that the Democrats have the ideas I agree with more often than not. Reenergizing the middle class and giving people a break. "
Henry Rollins
Opinion
Giving
Class
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" Young, gay and stuck in Arkansas? Sounds like a horror flick. "
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" My understanding of first-degree murder is that premeditation needs to be proven. "
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" The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can be tied to songs to such a degree that it's almost unbearable to listen to them again, as they bring back the memories so vividly. "
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" Unsurprisingly, Nelson Mandela had and still has many detractors. "
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" You must never lower yourself to being a person you don't like. "
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" If I'm in L.A. for longer than 20 days, I'm looking for work, because I don't do vacations. "
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" 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. "
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" As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not. "
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" Adolescence is a plague on the senses. "
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" Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort. "
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" 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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" Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on. "
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" 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. "
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Hate
You
Think
" 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. "
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" Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp. "
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Body
Clean
Blood
" 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
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" Airports in major cities, like LAX, are trippy environments. It is at once a national and international gathering of those in transition: The euphoric, emerging from planes, their journey at an end, and the determined, about to depart. "
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Gathering
End
Journey
" If there is one set of laws, one Constitution for every citizen, its protections hopefully applied equally to all, then why do the results seem to differ so radically? What do you call that? Look around - you're living in it. "
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Living
Look
Constitution
" I've been in Iraq, and it never occurred to me to go, 'Hey, this war is bogus,' to some guy who's 24 hours a day trying not to get shot at or blown up. "
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War
Go
Day
" I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work. "
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" I love capitalism. It rewards me for being brave - it awards me for being innovative and thinking out of the box. "
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Brave
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" Nothing moves me more than the history of the United States. "
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Nothing
More
" We city dwellers, we residents of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, are for the most part urbanized to some extent. We know deadlines, start times and traffic. "
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Know
Start
" For me, returning to Los Angeles annihilates the memories of where I have just been with an astonishing speed. "
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Speed
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" I think it is incumbent on anyone who can to lift human dignity to the highest possible levels, maintaining one's own and helping to raise that of others. "
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Think
Lift
Own
" You need a little bit of insanity to do great things. "
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Insanity
Great Things
Great
" When the movie comes out, what anybody thinks of it doesn't really matter to me. I don't go to the wrap party. I don't go to the premiere. "
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Out
Me
" If American forces leave Afghanistan, the Taliban is going to do what to America? Don't say you're worried about what they will do to the Afghan people. If that was America's concern, America's operational presence there would be much different. "
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You
Say
People
" 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. "
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