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You Should Have To Pass An Iq Test Before You Breed. You Have To Take A Driving Test To Operate Vehicles And An Sat Test To Get Into College. So Why Don’t You Have To Take Some Sort Of Test Before You Give Birth To Children? When I Am President, That’s The First Rule I Will Institute.

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You Should Have To Pass An Iq Test Before You Breed. You Have To Take A Driving Test To Operate Vehicles And An Sat Test To Get Into College. So Why Don’t You Have To Take Some Sort Of Test Before You Give Birth To Children? When I Am President, That’s The First Rule I Will Institute.

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The Genius Of Art Finds Sanctuary Among Children And Madmen To Survive.that Is Who We Are.

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I Chose Not To Jump Into The Media Frenzy And Defend Myself, Though I Was Begged To Be On Every Single Tv Show In Existence. They Want To Blame Entertainment? Isn't Religion The First Real Entertainment? People Dress Up In Costumes, Sing Songs And Dedicate Themselves In Eternal Fandom.

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Your Beautiful Don't Let Anyone Tell You Different

You Should Have To Pass An Iq Test Before You Breed. You Have To Take A Driving Test To Operate Vehicles And An Sat Test To Get Into College. So Why Don’t You Have To Take Some Sort Of Test Before You Give Birth To Children? When I Am President, That’s The First Rule I Will Institute.

My Mom Was Always A Big Fan Of Elvis. She Made Me Listen To Elvis When I Was A Kid. I Hated It. And I Think Now I've Kind Of Grown Up To Fill In Some Of The Sort Of Controversy That He Created Back In His Day, But In A Much More Extreme, Modern Sense.

As A Kid I Just Felt Like An Outsider.

It Wouldn't Even Make You Gay If You Had Sex With Johnny Depp, 'cause It's Johnny Depp.

Man Is Still At The Learning Stage, And Mankind Is So Arrogant To Think That He's The Highest Form Of Evolution On Earth. There's So Much Of The Brain That We Still Don't Use, And That's All I Ever Try To Do - Go To The Next Level

I Put Out A Lot Of Ideas In The Lyrics And The Way I Do My Things. There's A Lot Of Ideas Floatin' Around And People Who Know What It Is. People Will Pick It Up If They Know What To Pick Up.

There Are Definitely Dark Forces Out There That None Of Us Fully Understand. People Fear What They Don't Understand, And Lash Out Against It

As A Performer, I Wanted To Be The Loudest, Most Persistent Alarm Clock I Could Be, Because There Didn’t Seem Like Any Other Way To Snap Society Out Of Its Christianity- And Media-induced Coma.

If I Were In A Room Full Of People, I'd Rather Be The Person Who Is More Interesting Than The One Who Is Wallpaper.

Music Is The Strongest Form Of Magic.

I Believe That You Are Not Stuck With A Pre-destiny. I Believe That There Is Ways To See All These Things That Are Laid Down In Front Of You And Where You Belong And To Smack Yourself In The Face When You Realize That You've Strayed Off Your Path And Get Back To Where Your Path Is.

The Imagination Is Precious. Don't Lose It. Don't Lose The Child In You.

I Wanna Outrace The Speed Of Pain.

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