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Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor
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"I always found the Chicago audience to be a smart, fast-moving, violent and cheerful lot, and it's always good to be back."

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Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor
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"Sarah Palin embarrasses herself almost immediately upon opening her mouth to speak or upon moving her fingers to send messages to her dull flock."

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Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor
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"I try to get myself up and moving as early as possible. Optimum is to be on the treadmill while it is still dark outside."

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Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor
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"I have no pride about anything I have done. It's just not the way I think about things. I do the work, always, as hard as I can, to the point of pain, injury, exhaustion, if that is what it takes. Once I am done, I move on."

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Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor
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"I don't want to play old music. To me, it is fighting battles that are already over and calling yourself a warrior. For me, I see no courage or adventure in doing the old thing over again. If others want to, that's for them. For myself, I have to move on. Life is too short to live in the past. There is a lot to be done."

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Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor
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"We should treat each other better. Why in the hell would you still have racism? This ancient, moronic hatred? Why does our foreign policy have to always involve so much death and so much death of innocent people as a matter of course, to the point to where no one bothers to say anything. I guess a lot of people don't want to move forward. It's frustrating at times."

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"The nimble lie Is like the second-hand upon a clock; We see it fly; while the hour-hand of truth Seems to stand still, and yet it moves unseen, And wins, at last, for the clock will not strike Till it has reached the goal."

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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer
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"Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that it could. But it can put mountains where there are none."

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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer
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"I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move. Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me."

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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer
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"I have learned to walk: ever since, I let myself run. I have learned to fly: ever since, I do not want to be pushed before moving along."

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Mark Thornton Economist
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"The new puritans have been highly successful. All of the preconditions for new prohibitions on alcohol and tobacco are in place. ... Indeed, the future agenda of the federal government has already been established to outlaw alcohol and tobacco in the near future. ... If current trends persist, America will be moving toward stricter prohibitions, greater restrictions, and more centralized control over consumption. This represents an erosion of liberty at its most fundamental level."

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James Williams Artist, Educator
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"I think prices have been moving more on speculation than reality. But this is a market that has been driven by fear for two or three years."

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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
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"Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be"

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Kiki Smith Artist
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"I'm not moving from an ideological standpoint. Sometimes I'm trying to make my life better. Sometimes I'm trying to make my life worse! I'm trying to find a happy medium that I can make some sense of."

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Kim Harrison Author
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"Jenks made a move to follow, probably forgetting he didn’t have wings anymore. He leaned forward and fell to the floor, face first. “Jenks!” I shouted when he hit with a dull smack and started swearing."

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