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" In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move. "
Henry Rollins
Plot
Winter
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" I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it. "
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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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" I am on until I am dead, like a light bulb. "
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" Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians. "
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" Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp. "
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" The more I learn about Mr. Romney, the less there is to admire. "
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" When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it. "
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" With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad. "
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" Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts. "
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" As a young person, I wanted everyone to agree with me. "
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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 need to do things on my own, need to be left alone. "
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" Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock. "
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" I don't mind The Boss. I think he's an honest guy. I have some of his records, not all of them. I've met a couple of the E-Street guys, and they seem really cool. "
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Mind
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" I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud... You cannot fool an audience. "
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Fool
Brain
Me
" I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go. "
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Me
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" I have a lot of compact discs. I need them for radio play and convenience. Many bands and artists I am a fan of don't always release their work on vinyl, so I take what they feel like giving me. "
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Feel
Me
" I wonder how Colin Powell sleeps at night. I would like to have a word with him because he lied. He lied. He lied to me. He lied to my face through the camera at the U.N. "
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Wonder
Him
Camera
" When I am in Africa, I realize I don't know much, have not seen much, and there's a lot to be done. "
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Seen
Realize
" You need a little bit of insanity to do great things. "
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Insanity
Great Things
Great
" We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP. "
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Pain
GDP
Art
" To get a human through a life, lives of broken bones, knock-me-over-with-a-feather susceptibility to myriad viruses, and whatever else might befall someone will cost money. "
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" Whenever any great song or album gets lost in the ether, someone is deprived of the joy of hearing it, and the great effort of those who created and recorded the work is damaged. "
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" I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer's death as winter tightens its grip. "
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" For me, Memphis has always been a city that holds a great deal of meaning and also leads me to a lot of thinking. Besides Sun Studio, which helped put rock n' roll on the map all over the world, the legendary Stax Studio also called Memphis home. "
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" The only thing worse than the Pastor Terry Jones scheduled Koran burning is the fact that he canceled the proposed event. "
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" 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. "
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" Dinosaur Jr. in their live capacity are a band that put me in a state of such overwhelming rock that it often takes quite a while to come down. "
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" Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries. At my high school, I often spent my lunch breaks there. "
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