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" More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another. "
Henry Rollins
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" If I hear, 'Be afraid of Tehran,' I'm like, 'I'd better go to Tehran.' "
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" Republicans just can't help themselves. They get in front of a live microphone and within a few sentences are rocketing down the swiftest and most direct route to the all-you-can-eat comedian-and-talk-show-host buffet. "
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" Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it. "
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" I don't cuss in songs. It's too easy. "
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" I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind. "
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" As far as I have been able to understand, the Japanese seem to keep things close to the vest. Friendly but remote and polite to the point of being invisible. It is in the music, literature, film and art that the Japanese really seem to express themselves. "
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" War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times. "
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" It is instilled in thousands of American males from an early age that one of their requirements is to be able to both dish out and take a lot of pain. They are taught the rules of this road in gyms, rings, backyards and fields all over America. "
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" I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much. "
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" I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things. "
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" Fish is the only kind of respirating thing that I consume. Everything else I don't want any part of. "
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" Contemporary bands often will do tour-only releases pressed and sold only in Australia. Crikey! "
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" As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me. "
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" I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it. "
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" Barack Obama's administration responded to the Haitian crisis within 24 hours. Here comes the soldiers, here comes the food, go go go... Rush Limbaugh told his multi-millions of listeners that Obama only did that to gain favour with black people in America. This is the kind of idiocy that I have to deal with in my country. "
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" I'm not artistic nor am I all that creative. "
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" We Americans are hard on almost everything. We are hard on our vehicles, our marriages and our heroes. Mostly, however, we are hard on ourselves. "
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" I am afforded a bit of easy wonderment in relative comfort as to how humans have lasted so long. Climate- and geography-wise, the planet seems to have little use for us. "
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Easy
Planet
I Am
" Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come. "
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Time
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" Chris Christie is New Jersey's concern, not America's. "
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" My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud. "
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" I'm a professional food eater. "
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" If you listen to the way I speak and watch the way I conduct myself - there's nothing about me that's rock n' roll. It's like, 'Hello, I'm in a rock n' roll band'. 'No, you're a narc.' "
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" Think about it: No matter who you are, the past plays a large part in your life. I am all about living in the present as best as I can. Try as I might, there is only so much I am able to achieve on this front. "
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" More guns equaling more safety is a slippery slope, and what makes it so is human blood. "
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" I think that humans have a huge capacity to carry pain and sadness. There are things that haunt us our entire lives; we are unable to let them go. The good times seem almost effervescent and dreamlike in comparison with the times that didn't go so well. "
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" If you want to go the scorched-earth, Obamacare-is-like-slavery route and choose to stay uninsured, you will have the Palinesque guts, the Cruzian fortitude to wave off the ambulance that will appear to scoop you up should something bad happen to you, right? "
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