"Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks."
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"It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance."
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"I think I've become more relaxed throughout my career. I don't feel the need to jump up and down and make a big noise to get people to pay attention to me. I don't need to do punk rock gestures or eat a cockroach or do something weird to say I exist."
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"The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock; but the rolling stone is dead. The moss is silent because the moss is alive."
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"The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough will feel as if rocks had been rolled upon them."
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"I have to have music playing constantly. It creates the tone and mood for anything you are doing. I specifically love rock, and Jimi Hendrix is one of my favorite artists. My favorite song is 'Red House,' because it's heavy on the blues."
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"The lichen on the rocks is a rude and simple shield which beginning and imperfect Nature suspended there. Still hangs her wrinkledtrophy."
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"You have to be talented and you have to be lucky. Record companies are not signing classic rock groups anymore."
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"I like mountains, always have done. Big obstinate bits of rock sticking up where they're not wanted and getting in folk's way. Great. Climbing them is a different matter altogether though. I hate that."
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"Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I think that's true."
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"If you listen to the way I speak and watch the way I conduct myself - there's nothing about me that's rock n' roll. It's like, 'Hello, I'm in a rock n' roll band'. 'No, you're a narc.'"
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"Dinosaur Jr. in their live capacity are a band that put me in a state of such overwhelming rock that it often takes quite a while to come down."
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"Where there is young people and vitality, you're going to find punk rock."
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"The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short."
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"This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off the poodles."
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"Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business."
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"My father did not rock. He just earned and hated. Don't end up like this man."
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"I have always maintained that Iggy Pop is the Heavyweight Champion of Rock & Roll."
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"Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock."
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"Rock is ironic in that, up to a certain point, you can get better and better at it if you don't mind possibly looking more and more ridiculous."
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