"Being unique is never easy, and often, by the time culture catches up with you, there are only a few people who notice."
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"It is instilled in thousands of American males from an early age that one of their requirements is to be able to both dish out and take a lot of pain. They are taught the rules of this road in gyms, rings, backyards and fields all over America."
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"I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions."
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"To burn a CDR of music you like to give as a gift to someone you wish to become closer to is a cold, moist-palmed, mouth-breathing bummer."
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"In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon."
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"Even though I am not hungry when I get up, I try to eat to get me ready for the day. Within an hour of getting up."
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"If I could go to Kabul and not die, I would go back to Afghanistan as soon as I could. And, that was the most interesting place that I've been to."
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"While I disagree with our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, I have nothing but respect and admiration for the men and women deployed in these places."
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"I am very ambitious in a way, in that I'm not trying to be the richest guy or whatever. I just really like my work."
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"No child asks to get born, so when they are here, they should be shielded from any possible horror."
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"If there was a god, he wouldn't let a guy walk right up and shoot you in the face now would he? That's right, now you get the picture. Truth burns doesn't it?"
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"Maybe some things are better left broken and scattered Veiled in darkness, secret bitterness and self-doubt I should have known better Than to start something that I couldn't finish That I couldn't care about That I couldn't remember starting in the first place I don't want to know you You went years without me You might as well keep going."
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"if i was a woman these days, i'd be killing motherfuckers. my handgun would never cool and my hands would be covered in testicular blood. i would have a horrible reputation with a lot of men because i would be calling them on their weak bullshit left and right."
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"The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself."
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"I'm not artistic nor am I all that creative."
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"I am afforded a bit of easy wonderment in relative comfort as to how humans have lasted so long. Climate- and geography-wise, the planet seems to have little use for us."
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"I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else."
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"A rose trapped inside a fist."
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"He said that hate makes the world go round People are afraid of what they really want They make enemies of all the things that they would like to be They condition themselves to not embrace what they are Love is a clinging nausea I tried to disagree with him It was no use I never saw a more honest look in anyone's eyes."
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"He looked at her Something Turned cancerous He was in love."
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