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" There's something about being under-rested and knowing that the situation is going to remain that way for quite some time that makes things more meaningful. "
Henry Rollins
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" When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive. "
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" Every politician, every president gets votes by getting people that don't like him to like him. That's why politicians are slippery: because they talk out of both sides of their mouth. "
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" I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that. "
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" I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone. "
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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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" I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting 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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" Creating problems is easy. We do it all the time. Finding solutions, ones that last and produce good results, requires guts and care. "
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" There is no way you are going to be forgiven for blowing up a village and killing a bunch of people. "
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" But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work. "
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Work
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" Lou Reed's music has been in the lives of millions of people all over the world for decades. He had a truly universal presence and was respected by musicians across all genres. "
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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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Mind
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" Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp. "
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Body
Clean
Blood
" I'd love to talk to Janeane Garafalo or Randi Rhodes or Stephanie Miller from Air America. I'm an Air American junkie; I listen to them every day. "
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America
Every Day
Love
" For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16, and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that. "
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" In the summer of 1991, I was on the first Lollapalooza tour. Nightly, I would watch Jane's Addiction singer Perry Farrell go out in front of a sea of people and within minutes have all of them in the palm of his hand. I have never seen anything like it since. "
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People
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" Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time. "
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Romantic
Me
Love
" When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break. "
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High
You
Relationship
" I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history. "
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Great
Washington
Musicians
" You want to meet a bunch of really friendly people? Go to a Slayer concert. There'll be some real psychos there, but most of those people will take care of each other. "
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Take Care
Care
You
" As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me. "
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Feel
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Touch
" I believe that contentment or any sustained period of joy that doesn't inspire thought that leads to action almost immediately is useless. "
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" If an American company has a drop of patriotic blood coursing through its system, then surely it would set up in America and employ Americans, right? "
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" Live music is the cure for what ails ya. "
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Music
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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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Audience
You
" I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it. "
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" I'm mellower now, I'm over 50. But I don't think I'm too mellow. I'm still angry at a lot of things. "
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" I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go. "
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" America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave. "
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Right
America
" America was cool with Saddam Hussein when he was killing Iranians. "
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Saddam Hussein
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He