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" Luckily for me, I genuinely like my audience. They really are a good bunch. "
Henry Rollins
Me
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" We're at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead or we head down a very bad, dark trail to where a lot of people aren't going to make it. "
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" 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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" Castle Face Records, run by The Oh Sees main man, Johnny Dwyer is always worth checking in with. "
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" The world's a better place since I chose music. "
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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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Like
Must
" And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever. "
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Back
Me
" I don't believe it mattered to Timothy McVeigh who was president or who his congressional representative was when he blew up the Murrah Building in 1995. "
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Who
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