- Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say ‘no’ to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations.
- I mean Black Flag happened. I was lucky. I don’t think I could have put together something with one percent of that oomph on my own.
- If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back.
- Creating problems is easy. We do it all the time. Finding solutions, ones that last and produce good results, requires guts and care.
- As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not.
- I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.
- 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.
- Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries. At my high school, I often spent my lunch breaks there.
- Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to its economic stability?
- To burn a CDR of music you like to give as a gift to someone you wish to become closer to is a cold, moist-palmed, mouth-breathing bummer.
- I’m a good authoritarian figure; I don’t know why. ‘Can you be a cop?’ Sure. ‘Can you be a Marine?’ Absolutely. Well, at least in a movie.
- 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.
- Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward.
- One of the odd enjoyments in life is to be alone in a room full of people. To have them there as unknowing human filler in your wide shot.
- I believe that contentment or any sustained period of joy that doesn’t inspire thought that leads to action almost immediately is useless.
- 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.
- We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don’t. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
- 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.
- I’d like to talk to Arnold Schwarzenegger, ’cause I live in California and I just want to see that canned, chemical filled body in my office.
- I think more airtime should be given to Donald Trump and Orly Taitz. They should run for office together. They should open for Charlie Sheen.