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" Technically speaking, there is no music whatsoever on a CD. Lots of information, but no music. "
Henry Rollins
Lots
Music
Speaking
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" Seasonal change in Los Angeles is often a very subtle thing. It's not as if we finally stop having to shovel the snow out of our driveways and can put our parkas back in the closet. "
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" Adolescence is a plague on the senses. "
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" Before any American points a finger at President Putin and calls him nasty names, they should recognize that a lot of Americans agree with Putin on his stance against homosexual and transgender people. "
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" I've never heard Daft Punk; I've never heard a track of theirs in my life. They're the two guys with motorcycle helmets on? "
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" Every single record I have is a fossil. "
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" I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy. "
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" I don't hate the government. I don't think the Second Amendment is being infringed upon. "
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Government
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" I am on until I am dead, like a light bulb. "
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" My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud. "
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Optimism
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" Young, gay and stuck in Arkansas? Sounds like a horror flick. "
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Gay
Stuck
Sounds
" Luckily for me, I genuinely like my audience. They really are a good bunch. "
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Like
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" I have always identified with Joan Didion's depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ever since reading 'Play It As It Lays,' 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' and 'The White Album.' "
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Play
Reading
White
" Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual. Actually trying to deal with cold that can literally kill you is quite a different thing. "
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People
Cold
Hacking
" I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend. "
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Help
Friend
" 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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I Am
Seen
Realize
" Maybe I'm ego-tripping, but I don't find myself a particularly horrible person, so I don't think I need to hold back anything I think or feel. "
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Find
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Think
" I don't know if you have ever seen the Woody Allen film 'Annie Hall,' but it is, in a way, to Los Angeles and 'Hollywood' what 'This Is Spinal Tap' is to many musicians. "
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You
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" Nothing moves me more than the history of the United States. "
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History
Nothing
More
" After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band. "
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Left
Flag
Black
" I think it's important to have some documentation of the past. "
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Think
Past
Important
" August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed heavily upon my young frame. That, coupled with the oppressive heat and humidity of my native Washington, D.C., only seemed to heighten the misery. "
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Thought
Me
Young
" If some band sucks, you're going to have to find out about it for yourself, because I don't have the interest in issuing warnings. "
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You
Yourself
Out
" Sleep is for squares. "
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Sleep
" I have been listening to the Stooges' self-titled first album for well over half my life, and it remains one of the most exciting and essential records I have ever had the good fortune to come into contact with. "
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Over
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" Anything in this culture that stands still long enough eventually becomes okay if a person can derive an income from it. Eventually, pay-per-view public execution will happen, and it will be half-time entertainment. "
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Okay
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" I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. When you are too tired to eat, you really need some sleep. A few days later, things become strange. Loud noises become louder and more startling, familiar sounds become unfamiliar, and life reinvents itself as a surrealist dream. "
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Tired
You
Sleep
" 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. "
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Think
War
Way
" No one should die when they're 50. "
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Die
Should
" 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
Informed