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"Although I didn't think so at the time, things were a lot simpler in 1969. All you had to do to express yourself was throw rocks at riot police. But with today's sophistication, who's in a position to throw rocks? Who's going to brave what tear gas? C'mon, that's the way it is. Everything is rigged, tied into that massive capital web, and beyond this web there's another web. Nobody's going anywhere. You throw a rock and it'll come right back at you."

Thinking Rocks Brave
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George R. R. Martin Novelist, Screenwriter
Rocks

"I would also suggest that any aspiring writer begin with short stories. These days, I meet far too many young writers who try to start off with a novel right off, or a trilogy, or even a nine-book series. That's like starting in at rock climbing by tackling Mt. Everest. Short stories help you learn your craft."

Book Rocks Climbing
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Greil Marcus Music Critic
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"I never could understand - it was impossible for me to get my head around - what the furor was, what the sense of betrayal and anger and rage was about Bob Dylan's beginning to perform with a band, to play rock-and-roll, to get on the radio."

Rocks Betrayal Rock And Roll
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Greil Marcus Music Critic
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"Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments of unbelievable clarity and invention, pleasure, fun, vulgarity, excess, novelty and utter enervation."

Ideas Fun Rocks
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Marisa Miller Model, Actress
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"I love rock and roll. Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong decade because I love Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix and... those are my bands."

Rocks Band Rock And Roll
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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
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"Talk of mysteries! — Think of our life in nature, — daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, — rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! The solid earth! The actual world! The common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? Where are we?"

Thinking Rocks Wind
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Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor
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"Punk-rock gave music back to people. For a long time, when I was very young, I went to go see arena rock bands. I was 16 and it was all I could get in to see, legally. And I saw Led Zeppelin and Ted Nugent and Van Halen and all that. Me and [Minor Threat and Fugazi vocalist] Ian MacKaye would go to these concerts, and it was fun."

Long Fun Rocks
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Rocks

"I saw the long line of the vacant shore, The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand, And the brown rocks left bare on every hand, As if the ebbing tide would flow no more."

Hands Rocks Weed
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James Young Artist, Musician
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"People like to let loose at rock concerts and it gives them an excuse to do it in a way that is not destructive to others and not really destructive to the band."

People Giving Rocks
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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
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"Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment."

Law Rocks Punishment
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Kid Rock Musician, Actor
Rocks

"I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop."

Want Rocks Hip Hop
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Jay-Z Rapper, Businessman
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"When people say stuff like, "Oh, that's soft rock. I don't listen to that," I find that elitist. It's music-racist."

People Rocks Racist
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist
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"Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest ever--what thou art."

Art Rocks Feet
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John Lennon Musician, Activist
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"There is nothing conceptually better than rock 'n' roll. No group, be it Beatles, Dylan or Stones, have ever improved on Whole Lot of Shaking for my money. Or maybe I'm like our parents: that's my period and I dig it and I'll never leave it."

Parent Rocks Groups
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Johnny Depp Actor, Producer
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"It's absolutely fine when Wile E. Coyote walks in with a band-aid on his head, after a 3,000-pound rock is dropped on him. That is what Ed Wood meant by the suspension of disbelief."

Rocks Band Coyotes
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Jordan Rudess Musician
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"Affectors Harmagedon is a solid blast of PROG metal complete with burning solos, odd time signatures, orchestral highlights, and Rock riffs that will tear your head off! Excited that I could be a part of this album!"

Rocks Tears Signatures
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Jules Verne Novelist, Playwright
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"There is no more sagacious animal than the Icelandic horse. He is stopped by neither snow, nor storm, nor impassable roads, nor rocks, glaciers, or anything. He is courageous, sober, and surefooted. He never makes a false step, never shies. If there is a river or fjord to cross (and we shall meet with many) you will see him plunge in at once, just as if he were amphibious, and gain the opposite bank."

Animal Rocks Horse
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John Muir Naturalist, Writer
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"The tide of visitors will float slowly about the bottom of the valley as harmless scum collecting in hotel and saloon eddies, leaving the rocks and falls eloquent as ever."

Fall Rocks Climbing
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