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I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud... You cannot fool an audience.

Fraud Fool Audience Onstage
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I still have dreams about CBGB's. I still miss the place.

Dreams Place Still About
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A lot of Americans don't have a passport, never will have a passport. Not only will they not travel, they don't want to travel.

Passport Travel Americans Lot
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I was in Pakistan in Islamabad when Bhutto was assassinated, and the next day, you know, there's just plumes of smoke everywhere. I mean, Islamabad is on fire.

Plumes Islamabad Fire Smoke
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I'm pessimistic. I don't think that justice always gets the right person.
Think Person Justice Pessimistic
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I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much.

Censorship Amendment Interested First
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I'd like to talk to Sean Hannity in a controlled environment and say, 'O.K., you can't interrupt and jump up and down like a professional wrestler.

Interrupt Professional Wrestler Jump
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I've never heard Daft Punk; I've never heard a track of theirs in my life. They're the two guys with motorcycle helmets on?

Motorcycle Heard Life Helments
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I've been on 'Jay Leno,' and everyone likes Jay, but being on that show is a really boring afternoon. I sincerely like Jay, but I wouldn't want his job, because I'd have to interview Kathy Ireland, and there's nothing there I'd want to know.

Ireland Interview Kathy Boring
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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.

Electricty Ramones Relevant Music
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I'm not in a position where I get to pick and choose roles. I usually go on auditions in long lines and embarrass myself in front of casting directors, and with a lump in my throat and my ears burning, I walk past reception and smirking actors as I go to the parking garage and go back on the highway.

Actors Parking Garage Highway
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If I'm jetlagging, and I've missed some meals, and it gets to that point in a movie that you're supposed to cry, I'll let my defences down from around my inherent standing level of cynicism, and I'll cry.

Around Inherent Cynicism Cry
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Seven-11 is the pulse-beat of America. I think that Bruce Springsteen should do a song about a 7-11 in Asbury Park, New Jersey, but write it in such a way that American's youth can identify and slurp along with the Boss. Hail the Boss! Hail 7-11!

Youth Slurp Boss American's
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I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave.

Australians Usually Drag Leave
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I hate painting with a broad brush, but I think the birther thing, at its root, is racist. The guy was born in Hawaii. A black guy is president. It's cool. Get over it. Just deal with it. There's nothing you could show these birther people that would shut them up.

Painting Racist Black President
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If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

Believe Doing Just Know
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There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

Being Government Humorist Trick
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Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.

Much Today Too Up
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An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.

Been Cry Laugh Make
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Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

Getting Government Paying Thankful
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Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.

Like Said Things Worse
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There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

Electric Fence Few Kinds
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Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Everybody Ignorant Only Subjects
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Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

Amendment Anybody Anything Colleges
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I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

Facts Government Jokes Just
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Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

Art Diplomacy Find Nice
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An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

Anybody Economist Else Good
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It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

Costs Counts He Man
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If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.

Build Business Enough Respectable
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The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
Never School Used
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There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

Educated Get He Him
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America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

America Becoming Belong Educated
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All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

Ignorance Just Know Papers
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We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.

Get Good Here Laughs
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I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.

About Day Eight Newspaper
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You can't get your head around something if you're yelling.

Yelling Head Get Around
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I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.

Fiction Younger Ray Bradbury Man
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We're at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead or we head down a very bad, dark trail to where a lot of people aren't going to make it.

People Head Dark Peak
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I like boring black and white films with subtitles. I'm basically a drip.

White Black FIlms Subtitle
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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.

Up Getting Eat Ready
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I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life.

Minimum-Wages Working World Life
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The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.

Travel Distance Possible Seeds
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Everything I do, writing, touring, travelling, it all comes from the punk and hardcore attitude, from that expression - from being open to try things but relying on yourself, taking what you have into the battle and making of it what you will, hoping you can figure it out as you go. Make some sense of it.

Hoping Figure Sense Travelling
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I've been in Iraq, and it never occurred to me to go, 'Hey, this war is bogus,' to some guy who's 24 hours a day trying not to get shot at or blown up.

Blown War Bogus Occured
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I'm terrified of motorcycles. I've been on one a couple of times. I did not like it.

Motorcycle Couple Terrified TIme
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It's hard to get people at a record company to talk about music. They don't seem to want to talk about music, it's all marketing, and that's part of a record, you gotta get it out there, people have gotta hear it, but you could do it in a way that's not repulsive.

People Way Repulsive Hear
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It's easy for me to play bad guys because it's a very linear acting. Bad guys aren't empathetic. Being a bad guy is great because you're not friendly and you don't have to do much with your face.

Friendly Face Great Bad
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No one should die when they're 50.

Should One No Die
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It's why real men just go out in the woods and howl. I must do it and get paid.

Men Woods Paid Real
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I contribute a large amount of money to the Southern Poverty Law Center, so I'm on their mailing list for all their Klan Watch newsletters. I'm very well aware of White Power movements in America.

Aware Power Newsletter Movement
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