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The best compliment I get every year is that a band will write me and say, 'We were just on tour, and we had people coming to our show saying they had never heard us before they heard us on your show.

Heard Show Coming Compliment
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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.

Theory Slayed Shot Poodles
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Living entirely off writing is a precarious existence and money is always short, bit with careful management and planning I found I could keep my head and those of my family, through God's grace, above water.

Water Grace God Family
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As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.

Book Different Money Publisher
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Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.

Become Show People Only
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I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change.

Angry Anger Change History
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The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father's face, he's pushing back. He's sticking it to the man as he sees it. I like that. So that is punk.

Pushing Punk Sticking Man
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In Israel, there's a lot to learn from anyone, because to live there you've got to deal with the truth. Things happen real fast. Your day goes from cool to catastrophic in one second. Israelis know that the cafe you're in could blow up, or the shopping mall, and they rock that.

Israel Truth Happen Rock
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I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster.

Shock Doctine Money Disaster
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The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn’t have the weight of gender expectations.

Problem Gender Weight Individual
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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'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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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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We teach girls shame. “Close your legs. Cover yourself.” We make them feel as though being born female they’re already guilty of something. And so, girls grow up to be women who cannot say they have desire. They grow up to be women who silence themselves. They grow up to be women who cannot say what they truly think. And they grow up — and this is the worst thing we do to girls — they grow up to be women who have turned pretense into an art form.

Teach Close Cover Feel
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Your feminist premise should be: I matter. I matter equally. Not “if only.” Not “as long as.” I matter equally. Full stop.

Matter Equally Stop Premise
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Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him.

Around Often Power Felt
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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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She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself.
Head Felt First Feel
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Teach her that the idea of 'gender roles' is absolute nonsense. Do not ever tell her that she should or should not do something because she is a girl. 'Because you are a girl' is never reason for anything. Ever.

Teach Idea Role Gender
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Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

Also Everything Fashion Flowing
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Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

Based Dignity Lack Obligation
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Revelation without a relationship produces rebellion.

Rebellion Produce Relationship Revelation
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If you act your faith, you may look foolish for five minutes; but if you don't act your faith, you may be foolish forever.

Faith Act Look Foolish
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God sends you into a situation not so that He can show He is God; but rather for you to show who you are!

Show Rather Send Situation
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If I am constantly working, my relationships fail. So at least now I can have enough time to write a happy record. And be in love and be happy. And then I don't know what I'll do. Get married. Have some kids. Plant a nice vegetable patch.

Constantly Working My Relationship
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His name shall be called Wonderful, that means His name shall be full of wonders. It is the gift of God upon His Son, and forever that gift is in place.

Name Wonderful Shall Wonder
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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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No one should die when they're 50.

Should One No Die
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I'm a big fan of the American Tapes label. But that's very hard to keep a grip on that because you blink your eyes and they've released three records, all of which are limited edition, all sold at one show. So you have to follow in drips and drops on eBay, which I do.

Sold Show Drips EBay
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Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.

Musicians Play Pay Should
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I have healthy disagreements with political parties I'm not aligned with, but I don't think it should be to the point where we're cursing and trying to strangle each other.

Trying Point Strangle Cursing
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Barack Obama's administration responded to the Haitian crisis within 24 hours. Here comes the soldiers, here comes the food, go go go... Rush Limbaugh told his multi-millions of listeners that Obama only did that to gain favour with black people in America. This is the kind of idiocy that I have to deal with in my country.

Country Idiocy Deal People
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Fish is the only kind of respirating thing that I consume. Everything else I don't want any part of.

Fish Part Respirating Consume
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Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician.

Drummer Natural Musician Brilliant
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Before any American points a finger at President Putin and calls him nasty names, they should recognize that a lot of Americans agree with Putin on his stance against homosexual and transgender people.

Against Homosexual Transgender People
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When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.

Amateur Athlete College Earned
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I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.

After Calling Father George
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The thought of someone spending $20 to come and see me and saying, 'Oh, I prefer the record and she's completely shattered the illusion' really upsets me. It's such a big deal that people come give me their time.

Illusion Thought Someone Spending
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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Failure Should Teacher Undertaker
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Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

Find Half Life Our
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If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep

Any Creek Get Government
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A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

Smile Light Window That
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I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.

Had Blues Shoes Until
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I have always found it an honor that people have wanted to buy my shirt and an honor that fans turn up to watch the team I am playing in. I have always found that a huge honor.

Always Am Buy Fans
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To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

Establish True Self Esteem
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The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.

Winners Life Constantly Terms
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Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

Actor Actress Devil Great
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It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it.

Actually Copy Shrugged Read
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Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don’t have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don’t have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.

Concept Transmission Automatic Drive
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When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn't matter what you're shooting or how much you're being paid - it's not worth it.

Shooting Paid Set Worth
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