"We Americans are hard on almost everything. We are hard on our vehicles, our marriages and our heroes. Mostly, however, we are hard on ourselves."
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"I like people. Rightwingers don't. They like business, they don't care about people. I like education, they seem not to care much about it."
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"Life is a hurdle and you'll never clear it. Death is the end of the ride and you fear it."
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"I'm so burned out, the only person I can stand is myself. I'm the only one I would put through this. Wheels and wings, The ride is everything. I'm all I've got. I'm all I can take. Another day has destroyed a part of me. So far so good."
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"I don't have a crystal ball, but I'm willing to bet one of my arms right now that as long as there's electricity, Ramones music is going to be relevant."
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"Florida is a crazy place, and I have played some of the wildest shows of my life here."
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"I don't have a wife, I don't have any kids, I don't have any addictions that keep me drooling on the couch, and I'm kind of target oriented."
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"I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone."
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"If I was gay, there would be no closet. You would never see the closet I came out of. Why? Because I'd have burned it for kindling by the time I was twelve... If I was gay, at this stage of the game?age 37, aging alternative icon?I'd be taking out ads."
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"When you're kept out of the adult world, it's a blessing in disguise."
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"I am the assasin of my dreams."
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"As miserable as life may be I hold it pretty precious"
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"I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it."
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"Anywhere you hang yourself is home."
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"Spring and fall, those are very inspiring times of the year for me."
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"I would hate to think that some people have found themselves in a musical cul-de-sac and have ceased to explore new music, or at least music that is new to them, because they are so glued to the past."
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"Too sick and freaked out not to want a bullet for every passer by, too sick and freaked out to breathe, too sick and freaked out to care, too sick and freaked out to think of anything but the annihilation of my mind and denial of my life. So sick and freaked out that I think everyone is my friend."
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"Misery, depression, elation all mine, refine confinement all my design."
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"Love is self deception. I am a living creature. Hate is only self love. I am a double feature."
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"You know, we are one nation under a god. Yes, you were right. An angry, crack slinging god who decorates with bullets and spent condoms."
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