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" This administration affects the everyday life of the common person. "
Al Jourgensen
Life
Person
Everyday Life
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" I'd still prefer to do five nights at a club than one night at Allstate Arena. "
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" I can't control what people think of me, and I stopped really caring a long time ago. "
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" You tell me one other person that graduated from Yale that is as inarticulate as Bush. Yale's a great school, and here's this idiot. "
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School
" I never read comic books as a kid. "
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Comic
Books
" There's a famous artist, Ron English, in New York, that just, or Andy Warhol for that matter, that did pop art that terrorized society. And that's, for the last like 10, 15 years, that's all I wanted to do, is terrorize society and make them look into a mirror and see what the hell we have wrought. "
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Society
New York
Art
" Let's get with it, guys: You don't need to hear a Ministry song to get political. You should be political on your own. We're just a side project to society. So do I care what people think about me personally? No. I just do what I do. "
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Song
Think
Society
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Rat
Studio
Producer
" This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career. "
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Got
Way
" When I'm done with something, I'm done. I don't go back and listen to and pine for my old albums, or the Lollapalooza days, or 'Psalm 69' selling millions of records. Maybe I'm really just getting old and mellow. "
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Getting Old
Selling
Listen
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Past
You
Smoke
" I just tell you what I feel. I go out there, you put a quarter on my tongue, twist my ear and I'll spit out some hit for you. "
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Go
Just
Tell
" I'm a very firm believer in karma, and put it this way: I get a lot of good parking spots. "
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Firm
Good
" I've never seen the Osbournes, I've never seen Paris Hilton. I'd rather read than watch reality TV. I'd rather live life than watch somebody else living it. "
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Life
Reality
" Ah, man, if I could ever hook up with Tom Waits, I'd be the happiest camper in Yellowstone, alright? That's the one guy. "
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Yellowstone
Happiest
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