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" One of the most insane environments I have ever spent time in is a gun range. There we are, all in a line, armed to the teeth, firing away. "

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" August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor. "

" The Internet, the camera cellphone and the like have not only sped up the world's information uptake, but they have cheapened that which they capture. "

" I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation. "

" I try to be well informed. I don't know how well I do all the time, but I try nonetheless. "

" Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to its economic stability? "

" I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster. "

" It's hard to judge literary merit. "

" Anything in this culture that stands still long enough eventually becomes okay if a person can derive an income from it. Eventually, pay-per-view public execution will happen, and it will be half-time entertainment. "

" I wonder if it is Australia's great distance from more populated land masses that allows its inhabitants to be left to their own devices, to be incredibly creative and, at times, to be wonderfully weird. "

" For me, Memphis has always been a city that holds a great deal of meaning and also leads me to a lot of thinking. Besides Sun Studio, which helped put rock n' roll on the map all over the world, the legendary Stax Studio also called Memphis home. "

" With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal. "

" The fact is, in the minds of many, Trayvon Martin received the appropriate punishment for a true crime: He was black, male and dared to walk outside. In life, young Trayvon was just a teenager; in death, he has been transformed into a scary, lurking, suspicious, prone-to-violence spook. "

" Texas is as odd as it is vast. "

" 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. "

" Castle Face Records, run by The Oh Sees main man, Johnny Dwyer is always worth checking in with. "

" 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. "

" I think it's important to have some documentation of the past. "

" If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light, If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you. "

" Nothing moves me more than the history of the United States. "

" Luckily for me, I genuinely like my audience. They really are a good bunch. "

" Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock. "

" But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work. "

" In the city of Pyongyang, you don't have to look very far to see an image of the Great Leader, Kim Il Sung. They love the guy. He is responsible for the wonder that is North Korea. "

" I don't mind The Boss. I think he's an honest guy. I have some of his records, not all of them. I've met a couple of the E-Street guys, and they seem really cool. "

" I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that. "

" Songs sung under duress are often very powerful. "

" Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward. "

" Do you know why Albert Camus was so prolific? He wrote to keep from screaming. "

" Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated. "

" I'd like to talk to Arnold Schwarzenegger, 'cause I live in California and I just want to see that canned, chemical filled body in my office. "