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" To get a human through a life, lives of broken bones, knock-me-over-with-a-feather susceptibility to myriad viruses, and whatever else might befall someone will cost money. "
Henry Rollins
Life
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Someone
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" Young, gay and stuck in Arkansas? Sounds like a horror flick. "
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" Imagine someone so infatuated by a band that they have every different pressing of every album the band made. Most of the time, the only difference in the album is the matrix number or a different 'made in' notation on the back cover or label. This is enough to make some people extremely excited. Actually, much more than excited. "
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" Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on. "
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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 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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" Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come. "
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" The GOP grows more and more unpopular with female voters seemingly every time one of its leaders gets in front of a microphone. Misogynist is as misogynist does. The GOP and its bloviating pundits don't like women and they are unable to hide it, nor do they seem to make much attempt to do so. "
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" Nothing moves me more than the history of the United States. "
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Nothing
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" 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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" I am on until I am dead, like a light bulb. "
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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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" To me, the real 'state of the union' is found in how Americans react to current events. "
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Union
Me
" It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew. "
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Knew
Know
Sad
" If American forces leave Afghanistan, the Taliban is going to do what to America? Don't say you're worried about what they will do to the Afghan people. If that was America's concern, America's operational presence there would be much different. "
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" Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often. "
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You
Hard
" There's tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours a day getting in online arguments with other people who also choose to waste their time. "
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Time
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" The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible. "
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" 'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come to visit. "
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Time
" The public library system of the United States is worth preserving. "
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Worth
System
" After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band. "
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" America sold VX nerve gas and anthrax to Iraq for years, even after the Halabja gas attack, which killed thousands of Kurds. "
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" I remember when Martin Luther King was assassinated. I was up early watching television and watched the announcement. I didn't understand what the word 'assassinated' meant. "
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