"After I got out of the military, I was going to college and doing everything I was supposed to do, but I was completely numb of any emotions. I remember telling my mom, "I don't want to be like this, for the rest of my life." The military enabled me to turn off my emotions, for obvious reasons. That's why we have so many guys coming back who are going through so much. They just can't reconnect."

-- Travis Aaron Wade

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“There is always a point at which the terrorist ceases to manipulate the media gestalt. A point at which the violence may well escalate, but beyond which the terrorist has become symptomatic of the media gestalt itself. Terrorism as we ordinarily understand it is innately media-related.”
“Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course”

Source : Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
“I've been spending this last month trying to find four outfits to wear to the different premieres of The Two Towers. It's hard work.”
“Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise”
“If you're an asshole, you have an excuse for being an ***** because you're a junkie. But then once you give up the drugs, and you're still an asshole, that's problematic.”

Source : "Jerry Stahl Talks Smack". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 25, 2013.
“I don’t believe in magic. I believe in hard work.”
“[A] great embarrassing factâ€¦ haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.”
“If they don't have the Grand Ole Opry, like they do in Tennessee, just send me to hell or New York City, it would be about the same to me.”

Source : FaceBook post by Hank Williams Jr. from Dec 15, 2011

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