When You're Holding People's Attention, I Feel You Must Give Them High-quality Ingredients. They Deserve Nothing But Your Best. And If They Need Information, Get It, Cross-check It, And Try To Be Right. Do Not Waste Their Time; Do Not Enjoy The Ego Trip Of Being Onstage.

-Henry Rollins

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Brave

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Voice

Cartoon

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Littles

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Compass

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Married

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Awful

September

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Despair

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Lonely

Depressing

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Moving

Cheerful

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United States

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Class

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Men

Average

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Two

Track

Guy

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Self

Rejection

I'm So Burned Out, The Only Person I Can Stand Is Myself. I'm The Only One I Would Put Through This. Wheels And Wings, The Ride Is Everything. I'm All I've Got. I'm All I Can Take. Another Day Has Destroyed A Part Of Me. So Far So Good.

Wings

Another Day

Wheels

There's Nothing New About The Government Protecting Corporations And Calling It The Freeing Of The World Or Bringing Democracy To Bereft Nations. Nowadays, The Media Have To Be There For Them, To Keep You From Asking Too Many Questions, From Getting Together With Other People Who Might Want To Do The Jeffersonian Thing And Call Out The Government.

People

Democracy

Together

I Live My Life By The Numbers. Not Only Am I An American, I Am An Americanist.

Numbers

Living My Life

I Live My Life

It's Good To Be Able To Deal With It [anger] Somehow Other Than Drinking, Fighting, Crashing Cars, Hitting Your Kid, Your Wife, Your Husband, Your Whatever. Paintbrushes, Pens, Movie Cameras, Guitars, Microphones, Typewriters -- These Are Good Things. Weights. These Are Positive Ways, Good Ways To Deal With Anger, Frustration, Alienation, Rage. 'cause All The Other Ways Do Nothing But Hurt People.

Hurt

Husband

Drinking

I Am Always Interested In An Opportunity To Learn Something.

Opportunity

Opportunities To Learn

If I Were A Doctor, I Would Prescribe That You Addict Yourself Deeply And Irrevocably To Music And Never, Ever Seek Cure Outside Of More Music. It Really Is The Best Drug Available.

Doctors

Drug

Cures

I Don't Hate The Government. I Don't Think The Second Amendment Is Being Infringed Upon.

Hate

Thinking

Government

I Tend To Gravitate To The Darkest Or Most Obscure Part Of Any Venue In An Effort To Have My Own Space To Experience The Music On My Own, Free From Unwanted Conversations And Other Distractions.

Space

Effort

Obscure

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

I Simply Cannot Understand How Any Parent Could Kill Themselves.

Parent

As A Young Person Growing Up In Washington, D.c., Summers Were Hot, Humid And Relentless. My Friends And I Grew More Restless And Adventurous With Every Passing Year.

Summer

Growing Up

Years

Texas Is A Hotbed Of Insanely Good Bands And Musicians.

Texas

Musician

Band

Consumerism Is At Once The Engine Of America And Simultaneously One Of The Most Revealing Indicators Of Our Collective Shallowness.

America

Revealing

Consumerism

I Warn People, Your 40s Will Require Massive Amounts Of Humor And Humility.

Humility

People

Massive

When I Was A Kid Looking At Pictures Of The Sphynx, And The Pyramids, And Different Tribes In Africa, All Of That Stuck With Me, And I Always Wanted To See Those Things And Meet Those People.

Kids

Pyramids

People

If I Was Gay, There’d Be No Closet. You’d Never See The Closet I Came Out Of. Why? I Would Have Burned It For Kindling By The Time I Was Twelve! Because I Know, With All Certainty In My Mind, There’s Nothing Wrong With Being Gay And You Know It! And There’s Nothing Wrong With Being Into Chicks If You’re A Girl. And There’s Nothing Wrong With Being Into All Of It…. How Awesome Would It Be To Be Bisexual? To Just Walk Into A Room And Go ‘mmmm, Alright!!!!’

Girl

Gay

Bisexual

With Any Advent In Technology, Any Technological Innovation, There Is The Good And The Bad.

Technology

Innovation

Advent

What Does New York Sound Like? For Me, The Charlie Parker At The Royal Roost Recordings On The Savoy Label Are The Total Embodiment Of The New York Music Experience.

New York

Sound

Doe

With A Book, There's No Volume To Turn Up. You're Very Naked With A Book.

Book

Naked

Volume

I'm Always Looking, People Are Always Presenting And I Have Found That Every Year Of My Life There's Been Great Bands. All Over The World, All The Time. So When Someone Goes, "music Sucks Now!" I'll Go, "i Don't Think So. Not Over At My House."

Thinking

Years

People

If You Are A Musician Who Has Released Albums, It Would Perhaps Be Morbidly Interesting To Know How Much You Would Be Owed If Everyone Who Now Has Your Music Had Actually Bought Your Record.

Interesting

Musician

Albums

I Never Thought About Getting Any Tattoos Removed.

Tattoo

I Want To Meet A Woman That Will Make Me Stop And Listen To What She Has To Say. I Want A Woman Who Will Make My Jaw Drop In Awe. A Woman That Has Little Time For Me. One Who Does Not Throw Herself At Me. One Who Respects Herself Who Has A Sense Of Herself. Where Is She

Doe

Want

Littles

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

It's So Painful To Be Next To Someone You Feel Strongly About And Know You Can't Say The Things You Want To.

Want

Painful

I'm Not Like Paparazzi. I Never Force Myself On Anyone. I Always Ask, And Some Places Offer Money. And So I Try And Get These Photos To Give You, The Viewer, A Real Look At What I Was Seeing.

Real

Giving

Trying

Will Punk Rock Ever Die? Pal, If You Have To Ask It's Dead To You.

Rocks

Pals

Punk

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 Healthy Disagreements With Political Parties I'm Not Aligned With, But I Don't Think It Should Be To The Point Where We're Cursing And Trying To Strangle Each Other.

Party

Thinking

Political

I Think It's Important To Have Some Documentation Of The Past.

Past

Thinking

Important

It's Easy For Me To Play Bad Guys Because It's A Very Linear Acting. Bad Guys Aren't Empathetic. Being A Bad Guy Is Great Because You're Not Friendly And You Don't Have To Do Much With Your Face.

Play

Guy

Friendly

August Brings Into Sharp Focus And A Furious Boil Everything I've Been Listening To In The Late Spring And Summer.

Summer

Spring

August

Americans Should Demand Real News, More Transparency And More Truth.

Real

News

Demand

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

I'm Not Trying To Amass People In The Streets. I Just Want Them To Be More Aware. So Many Americans, For One Reason Or Another, They Watch The News And It Doesn't Really Give Them The Idea Of The World. Or They Don't Read Or Travel. They Have No Idea That America Is Part Of The World And Not The World Itself. And So Anything From The Travel Stories I Tell, That's What I'm Trying To Get Across.

People

Giving

Trying

I Am A White Guy In America With An Education, Albeit High School, But A Pretty Good One. Another Guy From A Different Demographic Or Different Ethnicity In America Can Look At Me And Say, "you Take A Lot For Granted." Well... Okay. I Just Live In A White Male American Reality, Where I Hear You But I Don't Know If I Necessarily Read You.

School

Reality

Ethnicity

I Definitely Learned A Lesson This Time. I Know That I Can Be Broken. I Am Not As Tough As I Thought. I See It Now. At This Point, It's The Only Thing Good That Came Out Of All Of This. I Know Myself Better Now And Know What I Have To Do.

Broken

Lessons

Tough

No Magic. I Do Believe You Might Have Taken It All With You When You Went Away.

Believe

Taken

Magic

I Never Think Of What It's Going To Be Like Later. I Only Think In The Present Tense. The Only Time I Think Backwards Is When I Have To Reissue Something.

Thinking

Tense

Backwards

I Remember When Martin Luther King Was Assassinated. I Was Up Early Watching Television And Watched The Announcement. I Didn't Understand What The Word 'assassinated' Meant.

Kings

Up Early

Television

I Didn't Want To Work At Pizza Hut And I Didn't Want To Join The Army. So I Just Decided To Go Out And Be Awesome.

Army

Want

Pizza

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

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.

Gun

Insane

Lines

I'm Not In A Position Where I Get To Pick And Choose Roles. I Usually Go On Auditions In Long Lines And Embarrass Myself In Front Of Casting Directors, And With A Lump In My Throat And My Ears Burning, I Walk Past Reception And Smirking Actors As I Go To The Parking Garage And Go Back On The Highway.

Past

Long

Directors

The First Van Halen Album Makes Johnny Rotten Out To Be What He Really Was And Still Is: A Hairdresser.

Firsts

Albums

Rotten

Never Once Have I Thought That Social Security Would Be Something That Would Ever Be Available To Me.

Would Be

Social

Available

Don't Hide Behind The Constitution Or The Bible. If You're Against Gay Marriage, Just Be Honest, Put A Scarlet 'h' On Your Shirt, And Say, 'i Am A Homophobe!'

Gay

Honest

Constitution

Sitting In A Room, Alone, Listening To A Cd Is To Be Lonely. Sitting In A Room Alone With An Lp Crackling Away, Or Sitting Next To The Turntable Listening To A Song At A Time Via 7-inch Single Is Enjoying The Sublime State Of Solitude.

Song

Lonely

Cds

I'm Not Much Of An Improv Guy. That's A Talent I Don't Have.

Guy

Talent

I Think Americans Really Need To Start Thinking Globally. As Resources Become More Dear, We Will Be Pulled Closer To The Rest Of The World Anyway.

Thinking

Needs

World

The Kid Who Throws His Spaghetti From The High Chair Onto His Father's Face, He's Pushing Back. He's Sticking It To The Man As He Sees It. I Like That. So That Is Punk.

Father

Kids

Men

The More You Own, The More It Owns You.

I've Never Raped Or Killed Anybody, Or Hurt A Kid. I've Done All The More Inept, High-volume Stuff - Like, "whoops, Sorry I Came In Your Hair. Don't Worry, I Won't Use Your Name When I Tell This Story On Stage."

Hurt

Sorry

Kids

Literally Thousands Of Lawsuits Have Been Filed Against The Nfl By Retired Players, Many Of Whom Say That Information On Brain Injury In Football Was Withheld From Them.

Football

Player

Nfl

I've Never Been In A Situation Where I Had To Run For My Life, But I've Been Bitten By A Lot Of Poisonous Snakes Where It Was Fairly Painful. Pythons Of Size Have A Lot Of Teeth In That Mouth, It's A Painful Bite And Those Wounds Get Infected Fairly Easily. I've Got Snake Wounds From These Animals That Have Lasted Quite A While Where It'll Ache For Several Days. Having Said That, I've Been Lucky; It's Not Like I'm Looking For Trouble With These Animals Either. It's Not An Envelope I'm Willing To Push.

Running

Animal

Python

I Would Never Be Innovative Enough To "blaze My Own Trail," I'm Just Trying To Be Interesting. So I Don't Look To Anyone Else As Far As Inspiration.

Inspiration

Interesting

Trying

I'm A Big Germs Fan; Most People Are.

People

Fans

Germs

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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