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Some Soldier Will Say, 'you Know, Sir, You And I Have Some Political Disagreements, But I'm Glad You Came All The Way Out Here.' And You Know, You Say, 'well, Maybe One Day You'll See The Light But I'm Glad To Be Out Here With You.'
-Henry Rollins
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Some Soldier Will Say, 'you Know, Sir, You And I Have Some Political Disagreements, But I'm Glad You Came All The Way Out Here.' And You Know, You Say, 'well, Maybe One Day You'll See The Light But I'm Glad To Be Out Here With You.'
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Temper
Live By
The First Several Years Of My Life Were Used To Upload Incredible Amounts Of Fear, And I Just Became Afraid Of Everything. I Was Afraid Of My Parents, Afraid Of My Classmates, Afraid Of The Streets Of Washington, D.c. I Would Flinch At Every Gesture.
Years
Parent
Gestures
You Never Have To Listen To A Famous Person, It's An Elective.
Persons
It's Hard To Judge Literary Merit.
Literary Merit
Judging
Merit
I'm Actually On The Twitter Like All Those Crazy Young Kids Are, And If I'm Going To Do An In-store Appearance Or I Post Something On My Website, I Tweet These Followers, A Word I Don't Like So Much, And Over 50,000 People Go, Like, 'okay, I Got It.'
Crazy
Kids
People
Your Commander Would Never Lie To You. That's The Vice President's Job.
Jobs
Lying
President
Look, It's A Monster. He's Walking Alone. Look, He's Pulling Something Out Of His Pocket. He Threw It On The Ground. Let's Go See What It Is. It's A Black Box. You Open It... Ok... Look, It's Sorrow, Misery And Pain. It's Loneliness And Longing. Boy, He'll Be Sorry He Lost These.
Sorry
Pain
Loneliness
Now You See How You Are, The Wisdom Mixed In With All The Scars.
Sadness
Scar
I Can Die Anytime I Want. I Wish I Could Do The Same With Life.
Wish
Want
Dies
That's Where The Economy Is Going. It Went Somewhere. Just Not To America. And The Money Made? That Went To The Cayman Islands And Switzerland. Not Back Here. Never To Be Taxed.
America
Islands
Switzerland
Americans Are Poorly Served By Their Media, You Know, For The War Machine And Propaganda Machine And The Global Empire And They're Poorly Served By What They Are Being Told Is Representative Government.
War
Government
Media
Pizza Makes Me Think That Anything Is Possible.
Thinking
Pizza
Anything Is Possible
With Any Advent In Technology, Any Technological Innovation, There Is The Good And The Bad.
Technology
Innovation
Advent
The Rich Survive And Everyone Else Gets Ready To Work 2 1/2 To 3 1/2 Jobs And What Do You Get? Blade Runner. Welcome To Your Science Fiction. Your 21st Century. I Think That's Where It Goes. The Rich Get Richer And Everyone Else... The Middle Class Kind Of Starts Dropping Lower And Lower.
Jobs
Thinking
Class
But I Have A Good Life. I Enjoy What I Do. I Am Married To Work.
Good Life
Married
Enjoy
When The Movie Comes Out, What Anybody Thinks Of It Doesn't Really Matter To Me. I Don't Go To The Wrap Party. I Don't Go To The Premiere.
Movie
Party
Thinking
Strength Is The Product Of Struggle, You Must Do What Others Don't To Achieve What Others Won't.
Struggle
Bodybuilding
Achieve
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
America Has 2.2 Million Of It's Citizens Incarcerated. It's A Statistic We Should Be Ashamed Of.
America
Citizens
Should
The Ones Who Don't Do Anything Are Always The Ones Who Try To Pull You Down.
Trying
I Believe In North, South, East, West, The Seasons, Life And Death, Geography. That Which Is Provable, Absolute And Most Of All, Functional. I Believe In Things That Can Kill Me.
Believe
Life And Death
East
I Don't Cuss In Songs. It's Too Easy.
Song
Easy
Want A Good Body? Work At It. Want To Be A Success? Work At It. Want To Be Truly Exceptional? Be A Touch Insane... You Need A Little Bit Of Insanity To Do Great Things.
Insanity
Insane
Body
I Have Been Listening To The Stooges' Self-titled First Album For Well Over Half My Life, And It Remains One Of The Most Exciting And Essential Records I Have Ever Had The Good Fortune To Come Into Contact With.
Self
Listening
Half
I'm Just Shallow And Self-interested, And Don't Get Out Much Because I'm Afraid Of Real Commitments.
Real
Commitment
Self
I Think That America Certainly Has Racism, I Think That Any Industrialized Country Does. But When You See How Many Million Fans Barack Obama Has Who Are Not Black, It Would Lead One To The Conclusion That Millions Of Americans Are In Fact Not Burdened By The Albatross Of Racism.
Country
Thinking
America
There're Some Places That Are More Difficult Or Dangerous To Navigate And I Wouldn't Look Forward To Going Back. Like I'd Much Rather Go Back To Afghanistan - Which Fascinates Me - Quicker Than I'd Go Back To Spend A Week Walking Around Nairobi, Kenya, Which Is A Great And Easy Way To Get Yourself Killed.
Way
Looks
Kenya
You Have To Realize There Are Other People, Other Economies, Governments, Cultures, Religions, And Destinies Going On At The Same Time As Yours. You Have To Widen The Scope Of Your Lens And Start Seeing More.
Destiny
Government
Culture Religion
I Think There Will Always Be Great New Music And Bands. As Long As There's People Around, There's Going To Be Great Music. I Think There's Bands Like Wolf Eyes, Q & Not U, The Evens And Many Others That Are Doing Great Stuff. The Music That Doesn't Please You, You Just Don't Listen. No One Makes Me Listen To Nickelback, So Long May They Wave.
Eye
Thinking
Long
I'm Not Artistic Nor Am I All That Creative.
Creative
Artistic
I Get A Lot Of Shit Because I Put "i" In The Lyrics All The Time. The "i" Is Always For Someone Else... When I Say "i," It's So That When That Person Is Singing Along With The Song, It Empowers Them.
Song
Empowering
Singing
I Wonder How Colin Powell Sleeps At Night. I Would Like To Have A Word With Him Because He Lied. He Lied. He Lied To Me. He Lied To My Face Through The Camera At The U.n.
Sleep
Night
Cameras
Politics Is A Thing That I Follow Because It Determines What Is Going On In My Country, But I Vote And Deal With Politicians With A Great Degree Of Jaundiced Eye.
Country
Eye
Degrees
I Am Afforded A Bit Of Easy Wonderment In Relative Comfort As To How Humans Have Lasted So Long. Climate- And Geography-wise, The Planet Seems To Have Little Use For Us.
Wise
Long
Comfort
In The Worst Of Times The Best Among Us Never Lose Their Moral Compass, And That Is How They Emerge Relatively Unscathed.
Leadership
Moral
Compass
After... The Seas Have Dried Out The Trains Have Come To A Shrieking Holt The Hounds Of The Abyss Cease To Howl The Prisons Have Closed Their Doors The Pigs Have No One To Arrest Except Themselves The Drugs No Longer Have An Effect When It's All Over All I'll Remember Is You
Pigs
Doors
Sea
I Am Basically Working 7 Days A Week. When I Am Not Eating, Sleeping, Or Working Out, I Am Working On One Of Projects Which I Am Just Damned Determined To Finish.
Sleep
Work Out
Determined
The Tasks I Set Out For Myself Are What I Do To Beat The Perfect Pointlessness Of Life.
Perfect
Tasks
Beats
Guns Are Part Of The American Identity.
Gun
Identity
American Identity
I Am Talking About Ultimate Deceit. I Am Talking About Unparalleled Treachery. Bottomless Lies. Depths That Are Seen That Are Previously Unimaginable. Darkness And Shattering Despair That Could Break Bones. Paranoia And Horror That Could Stop The Heart Cold. All Inflicted On One's Self By One's Self. The Soul Turns Schizophrenic And Goes Hopelessly Insane.
Lying
Heart
Self
The Idea That Any Performer Type Is Owed Anything Is A Joke To Me.
Ideas
Type
Performers
'the Great Gatsby' Is A Book I Have Read A Few Times, And It Seems To Get Heavier Every Time I Come To Visit.
Book
Seems
Most Of The People Who Call Me A Sellout Were 7 When I Was Down Face-first In The Punk Trenches.
People
Faces
Firsts
I Know I Was A Generic Dysfunctional Child, But I Think A Lot Of People Are.
Children
Thinking
People
We Know That In September, We Will Wander Through The Warm Winds Of Summer's Wreckage. We Will Welcome Summer's Ghost.
Summer
Wind
Wreckage
I Think Politicians Get Hamstrung By The Nature Of Politics When The Private Sector Can Really Do Great Things.
Thinking
Politician
Great Things
I Have A House, I Try To Spend As Little Time In It As Possible. Not Always Easy On The Mind And Body, But It's How I Got Myself To 80-plus Countries. This Kind Of Routine Forces One To Reinvent And Improvise. The Older I Get, The More Important This Is To Me.
Country
House
Mind
Loneliness Adds Beauty To Life. It Puts A Special Burn On Sunsets And Makes Night Air Smell Better.
Life
Lonely
Depressing
So I'm More At Home With My Backpack, Sleeping In A Hotel Room Or On A Bus Or On An Airplane, Than I Am Necessarily On A Bed. It's Weird Being Here. It Feels Like I'm Standing Next To My Real Life.
Real
Home
Airplane
I Have Never Experienced Anything Like Walking Out Onto The Stage Of An Oversold Venue And, Before The First Note Is Struck, Realizing That There Is Not Going To Be Enough Oxygen For All Of Us.
Oxygen
Firsts
Realizing
To Our Enemies All Over The World Who Plan America's Demise, Please Take My Advice. Give Up Now. No Matter What, You Will Lose. You Will Lose It All.
Giving Up
America
Advice
America Is A Country Born From Semi-mythologized Blood, Glory And Acts Of Selfless Patriotic Sacrifice.
Country
Patriotic
Sacrifice
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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