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I Think It's Very Sad That The Political Landscape Is So Dotted With Religious Extremists Who Feel The Need To Infringe Upon The Lives Of Decent, Free And Harmless Americans Who Want Nothing More Than To Be In Love And To Spend The Rest Of Their Lives Together.
-Henry Rollins
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Henry Rollins
I Think It's Very Sad That The Political Landscape Is So Dotted With Religious Extremists Who Feel The Need To Infringe Upon The Lives Of Decent, Free And Harmless Americans Who Want Nothing More Than To Be In Love And To Spend The Rest Of Their Lives Together.
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Found
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Elation
Care
I'm Of The Opinion That The Democrats Have The Ideas I Agree With More Often Than Not. Reenergizing The Middle Class And Giving People A Break.
Class
Ideas
People
Don't Do Anything By Half. If You Love Someone, Love Them With All Your Soul.
Unconditional Love
Soul
Half
Stockholders Are Used To A Certain Kind Of Global Capitalism. This Version Is Very Hard On The Environment And Very Hard On People Below A Certain Fiscal Level. It Is A Calculated, Systematic Weakening Of People. Many Labour, A Few Benefit. Try Talking About Cleaning Up The Place With These People. The Hostility Is Incredible.
Talking
People
Trying
It Is Only Our Humanity That Can Deliver Us From The Brutality Of Our Achievements.
Achievement
Humanity
Brutality
If You Listen To 'the Revolution Will Not Be Televised,' By Gil Scott-heron, That Album Is Dripping With Rage.
Revolution
Albums
Rage
Its No Surprise To Me That Anyone Hardly Tells The Truth About How They Feel. The Smart Ones Keep To Themselves For Good Reason. Why Would You Want To Tell Anyone Anything That's Dear To You? Even When You Like Them And Want Nothing More Than To Be Closer To Them? It's So Painful To Be Next To Someone You Feel So Strongly About And Know You Can't Say The Things You Want To.
Smart
Want
Next
Since The Last Tour I Have Done A Lot Of Extensive Travel To Iraq, Kuwait, Siberia, South Korea And Other Places And Picked Up Some Hopefully Interesting Stories. We Are Living In Interesting Times And As Bad As Things Are, I Draw Considerable Inspiration From Some Of The Things I'm Seeing And People I'm Meeting. I'm Looking Forward To Getting Out On The Road And Talking About It All.
Inspiration
Talking
Korea
The Music Kind Of Takes Care Of Itself Because We've Done All That As Preproduction In The Practice Room. So By The Time It Gets Onstage, Each Song Has About One Hundred Hours Of Way Too Much Mothering Gone Into It. So When You See Us Play Live, That Is The Product Of Ninety Days Of Practice, Over A Year Of Writing, Listening To Demos On The Weekends After Practice.
Song
Writing
Weekend
I Live My Life Through The Prism Of Capitalism And Physiological Limits And Eventualities.
Limits
Living My Life
Prisms
The Government Is A Functionary Of The Corporations - And There's Nothing New About That. You Can Find People In The 1930s Talking About The Army Basically Working For Wall Street In All Of These Countries [it Invades].
Country
Wall
Army
How Memories Lie To Us. How Time Coats The Ordinary With Gold. How It Breaks The Heart To Go Back And Attempt To Re-live Them. How Crushed We Are When We Discover That The Gold Was Merely Gold-plating Thinly Coated Over Lead, Chalk And Peeling Paint.
Memories
Lying
Heart
I'm Pessimistic. I Don't Think That Justice Always Gets The Right Person.
Thinking
Justice
Pessimistic
There's A Lot Of Stuff Like That That American's Don't Know And Since A Lot Of Americans Don't Have A Passport, I'll Get A Passport For Them And Since A Lot Of Americans Don't Know What A War Looks Like Thirty, Forty Years Later And It's Still Doing Damage.
War
Years
Looks
Respect Is Not A One Way Street
Way
Streets
One Way
Loneliness Adds Beauty To Life. It Puts A Special Burn On Sunsets And Makes Night Air Smell Better.
Life
Lonely
Depressing
Adolescence Is A Plague On The Senses.
Adolescence
Plague
Senses
Ramones Music Has A Pavlovian Effect On Me - The Song Starts, And The World Blurs Around The Sound.
Song
Sound
World
But I Have A Good Life. I Enjoy What I Do. I Am Married To Work.
Good Life
Married
Enjoy
Black Sabbath - One Of The World's Universal Language Of Music. I Felt Proud, For Three Or Four Minutes Of My Life Combining My Voice With Tony Iommi's Guitar Sound.
Voice
Guitar
Black
When Life Hands You A Lemon, Say, 'oh Yeah, I Like Lemons! What Else Ya Got?
Life
Hands
Fruit
Your Commander Would Never Lie To You. That's The Vice President's Job.
Jobs
Lying
President
I Don't Get A Lot Of Choices In Movies. It's Not Like I'm Brad Pitt And I Can Walk In And Go Here's The Film I Want To Do And Everyone Runs Around... I Don't Have That. I Stand In Line And Do Auditions. I'm There With 80 Other Guys Trying To Be That Guy. Every Once In Awhile I Luck Out.
Running
Choices
Guy
The Average Is The Borderline That Keeps Mere Men In Their Place. Those Who Step Over The Line Are Heroes By The Very Act. Go.
Hero
Men
Average
It Is Very Difficult To Tell Americans That They Can't Do Something.
Difficult
I Am A Veteran Of The War On Christmas. I Am Just Emerging From A Battlefield Strewn With Dead Trees And Torn Shreds Of Brightly Colored Wrapping Paper.
War
Tree
Wrapping Paper
If You Really Want A True Confrontation, You Treat Your Opponent With Respect.
Opponents
Want
Treats
I Forged Myself Out Of A Vacuum. I Crawl Along The Highway On Hacked Off Stumps Year After Year. Some Wonder How And Why. I Never Do.
Years
Vacuums
Wonder
I Can Die Anytime I Want. I Wish I Could Do The Same With Life.
Wish
Want
Dies
Through The Years, I Have Combined Meditation, Action, And The Iron Into A Single Strength. I Believe That When The Body Is Strong, The Mind Thinks Strong Thoughts. Time Spent Away From The Iron Makes My Mind Degenerate. I Wallow In A Thick Depression. My Body Shuts Down My Mind.
Strong
Workout
Believe
There’s Got To Be Someone For Me. It’s Not Too Much To Ask. Just Someone To Be With. Someone To Love. Someone To Give Everything To. Someone.
Giving
Too Much
Love Someone
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.'
Writing
Years
People
No Such Thing As Spare Time, No Such Thing As Free Time, No Such Thing As Down Time. All You Got Is Life Time. Go.
Spare Time
Life Time
Spares
'fox News' Will One Day Come To An End. Led Zeppelin Will Not. It's As Simple As That.
Simple
One Day
News
It Is Impossible, After A Certain Point, To Go Back To A Previous Way Of Life, A Previous Way Of Thinking.
Thinking
Way
Impossible
As Far As Poetry, I Don't Know If I've Ever Written Any. I've Read A Lot. I Just Write And It Comes Out In Different Forms And Shapes. I Don't Know If I'm Any Good At It I Just Really Go For It And I'm Very Prolific Book Wise Only Because I Own The Company. No One Tells Me 'no' Around Here.
Wise
Book
Writing
It Is Just That I Don't Want A Wife And I Don't Want Kids.
Children
Kids
Wife
It'll Destroy You If You Try To Make It Mean Anything To Anyone But Yourself.
Mean
Trying
Ifs
A Gun In Your Hand Makes A Fool Out Of You. A Gun In Your Hand Makes A Target Out Of Me.
Revenge
Gun
Hands
We're Just Very Belligerent, And I'm Not Trying To Put Americans Down, By And Large I Think We're Nice People, But We Operate With The Information We're Given And We Are Limited By The Ignorance That Is Kind Of Injected Into The Media And Into The Tv Shows.
Nice
Ignorance
Thinking
I Think In Rural Settings, People Have A Different Appreciation For Animals Than Might The City Dweller. In Parts Of India Where Poisonous Snake Bite Is Common, People Have A Much Different Value System. I Live In A City. I'm Not Thinking About Wolves, Lions, Etc.
Appreciation
Thinking
Animal
Pride Is A Thing That I Have Tried To Abandon Completely. Try As I Might, Pride Still Creeps Into Many Of The Things I Do.
Pride
Trying
Might
I Was At The First Minor Threat Show, And You Could Tell, 'this Band Is Going To Be The King Of The Town.' It Was Obvious. They Were So Good.
Kings
Band
Firsts
I Want To Learn More About The World. It Makes Me Want To Get Up And Go.
Travel
World
Want
Certainly, There Are Huge, Multiplatinum Bands Whose Singers Command Their Audience's Attention. Sadly, Much Of The Time They Have Little To Say.
Attention
Band
Littles
I Am Always Interested In An Opportunity To Learn Something.
Opportunity
Opportunities To Learn
I'm A Professional Food Eater.
There Is Not One Single Police Officer In America That I Am Not Afraid Of And Not One That I Would Trust To Tell The Truth Or Obey The Laws They Are Sworn To Uphold. I Do Not Believe They Protect Me In Any Way.
Believe
America
Law
Fish Is The Only Kind Of Respirating Thing That I Consume. Everything Else I Don't Want Any Part Of.
Want
Kind
Fishes
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.
Jealous
Pride
Degradation
Music Files And Downloading Have Indeed Changed The Currency Of Music To A Great Degree.
Degrees
Currency
Changed
My Desires Are Foolish. The Things I Want Are Better Kept To Myself. The Hand Of Silence Is Steady. The Hard Blade Of Silence Is Clean Like Night. The Code Is Absolute. Silence Is Eternal And Patient. Silence Never Makes A Fool Of Itself Like I Have So Many Times.
Night
Hands
Silence
George Zimmerman Is A Foot Soldier In A Rapidly Privatizing Country. He Is A New Centurion Of 21st-century America. Law Enforcement Is Tied Down By The Strictures Of, Well, The Law. There Is Only 'so Much They Can Do' To Take Care Of The 'problem.'
Country
Law
Feet
I Have Built My Life To Pursue The New. I Don't Have Family, Don't Know Many People And I Am Usually Ready To Leave Within An Hour.
People
Hours
Ready
Scar Tissue Is Stronger Than Regular Tissue. Realize The Strength, Move On.
Life
Stay Strong
Moving
Most Americans Are Very Cool People.
People
Cool People
Very Cool
Understanding Quotes: Their Essence and Application

Quotes, or quotations, are powerful tools in communication, encapsulating ideas, emotions, and wisdom in concise expressions. They serve various purposes across different contexts, from academic writing to everyday conversation.

1. Defining Quotes

A quote is a repetition of someone else's statement or thoughts. It can be a direct replication of words spoken or written by another individual, often used to support arguments, provide evidence, or convey profound insights.


2. The Importance of Quotes

2.1. Enhancing Credibility

Incorporating quotes from authoritative sources can bolster the credibility of your work. By referencing experts or primary sources, you demonstrate thorough research and a solid foundation for your arguments.


2.2. Providing Evidence

Quotes serve as concrete evidence to support claims. In academic and professional writing, they validate points made, offering readers a basis to trust the information presented.


2.3. Conveying Emotions and Perspectives

Quotes can encapsulate emotions and perspectives succinctly. They allow writers to express complex feelings or viewpoints through the words of others, often more eloquently than paraphrasing.


3. Types of Quotes

3.1. Direct Quotes

Direct quotes involve copying the exact words from a source, enclosed in quotation marks. They are used when the original wording is significant or particularly well-expressed.


3.2. Indirect Quotes (Paraphrasing)

Indirect quotes restate the original message in your own words. While not enclosed in quotation marks, they still require proper attribution to the original source.


3.3. Block Quotes

Block quotes are lengthy direct quotations, formatted as a separate block of text. They are typically used for quotes exceeding a certain length, varying by citation style. For instance, in APA style, quotes longer than 40 words are formatted as block quotes.



4. Proper Usage of Quotes


4.1. Contextual Relevance

Ensure that the quote you choose is relevant to the topic and adds value to your content. Avoid inserting quotes solely for decorative purposes.


4.2. Integration into Your Writing

Seamlessly integrate quotes into your writing. Introduce them appropriately and follow up with analysis or commentary to connect them to your main points.


4.3. Attribution and Citation

Always attribute quotes to their original authors and provide proper citations according to the required style guide (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.).


5. Common Mistakes to Avoid


5.1. Overusing Quotes

Relying too heavily on quotes can overshadow your voice. Use them sparingly to support your arguments, not replace them.


5.2. Lack of Analysis

Presenting a quote without analysis or explanation can leave readers questioning its relevance. Always follow up with your interpretation or discussion.


5.3. Misquoting or Taking Out of Context

Ensure that quotes are accurate and not taken out of context, as this can mislead readers and undermine your credibility.



6. Quotes in Different Contexts


6.1. Academic Writing

In academic writing, quotes are used to support arguments, provide evidence, and engage with existing literature. Proper citation is crucial to avoid plagiarism.


6.2. Journalism

Journalists use quotes to provide firsthand accounts, add authenticity, and present multiple perspectives within a story.


6.3. Literature and Creative Writing

In literature, quotes can be used to convey character voices, themes, and stylistic elements. They enrich narratives and provide depth to storytelling.



7. Punctuation and Formatting


Understanding the correct punctuation and formatting of quotes is essential:


Quotation Marks: Always enclose direct quotes within quotation marks.


Punctuation Placement: In American English, periods and commas are placed inside quotation marks, while colons and semicolons are placed outside.


Block Quotes: For longer quotes, format them as block quotes without quotation marks, and indent the entire block.



8. Ethical Considerations


Ethical use of quotes involves accurate representation, proper attribution, and respect for intellectual property. Misuse can lead to plagiarism, which carries serious academic and professional consequences.

9. Tools for Managing Quotes


Utilize tools like citation generators and plagiarism checkers to manage quotes effectively. These tools help ensure proper formatting and originality in your writing.



Conclusion


Quotes are invaluable in enriching content, providing evidence, and conveying complex ideas succinctly. When used appropriately, they enhance the quality and credibility of your writing. Always ensure relevance, proper integration, and ethical usage to maximize their impact.


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