"I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down."

-- Henry Rollins

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“If you go to old houses on Long Island you will see painted Chinese wallpaper, which was big in the 18th century. Throughout history, notable, established families have always tried to link to the 18th century.”
“That's a terrible price to pay because you loved life so much, with the intensity of a thousand suns, and the women and all of it - and then it's all taken away from you. You end up walking the hallways of always to a place called tedium and apathy, day after day after day. Years go by.”

Source : Interview with Chris Simunek, hightimes.com. August 5, 2015.
“Be your own kind of beautiful, it's super important. Take that to heart and always be yourself.”
“It is in an ennobled soul only that the universal powers can do their work, especially if body, mind and soul have been equally trained and developed.”
“But gentlemen, as long as I am an American Citizen, and as long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject.”

Source : Paul Simon, Elijah Parish Lovejoy (1964). “Lovejoy: Martyr to Freedom”
“'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?”
“I have a theory that since everyone is always dieting, no one at a convention dinner ever eats the potatoes. Therefore, they go back to the kitchen uneaten. And the next night they reappear at another convention. Therefore, one should never eat the potatoes. Who knows? They may be six or seven years old.”
“Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”

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