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" What I don't want to do is go out there and not be able to mean it, you know? "
Henry Rollins
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" I have a lot of compact discs. I need them for radio play and convenience. Many bands and artists I am a fan of don't always release their work on vinyl, so I take what they feel like giving me. "
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" It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it. "
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" In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record. "
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" The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid of my parents, afraid of my classmates, afraid of the streets of Washington, D.C. I would flinch at every gesture. "
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" To this day, my haircut is the number two clippers, which I apply to myself every month. "
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" Marriage equality is a term so ridiculous on its face that when you hear it mentioned, you would think you were in Riyadh. Years from now, perhaps we can lose the equality part, the same-sex part and call it what it is - marriage. "
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" I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent. "
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" Juan Williams is a very sharp guy. "
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" You must never lower yourself to being a person you don't like. "
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" Canadians are often a friendly bunch. "
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" Do you know why Albert Camus was so prolific? He wrote to keep from screaming. "
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" Nelson Mandela will always be the face of South Africa. The traveler passing through the country will see Mandela's face almost everywhere he looks. Truly, the man is omnipresent. "
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" Motivation has always been a fascinating factor when considering a touring artist, especially when the years stack up. What keeps one out there year after year? "
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" Maybe I'm just a psycho, and the stage is a better place to go than either the loony bin or somewhere else. "
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" We spend millions of dollars to remove pain from our lives. It's why so many people get hooked on painkillers. The body becomes addicted to painlessness. That tells you a lot. "
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" We city dwellers, we residents of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, are for the most part urbanized to some extent. We know deadlines, start times and traffic. "
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" I wonder if it is Australia's great distance from more populated land masses that allows its inhabitants to be left to their own devices, to be incredibly creative and, at times, to be wonderfully weird. "
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" I've been in Iraq, and it never occurred to me to go, 'Hey, this war is bogus,' to some guy who's 24 hours a day trying not to get shot at or blown up. "
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" I urge you to read the Occupy Manifesto, written by the New York City General Assembly. It is unavoidably clear. This is not directionless action. If it were, the media would have moved on. "
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