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"I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously."
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"Good. Illegal is always faster."
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"If I ever form a clan, we'll be the anti-cheerleaders and walk under the bleacher forming mild acts of mayhem."
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"Every man who has in his soul a secret feeling of revolt against any act of the State, of life, or of destiny, is on the verge of riot; and so soon as it appears, he begins to quiver, and to feel himself borne away by the whirlwind."
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"I tell you, I'm half tempted to break into CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon out of CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon."
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"The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in pleasure. Dance madly. That is how you get rid of terrorism."
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"My parents were dismayed by my love of horror movies as a young girl, then even more dismayed when I kept rooting for Dracula to win instead of Van Helsing."
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"Never close your hands in the face of evil fate, get up and rebel against it."
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"In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relive the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption."
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"There was no burger so soggy that he would not eat it. No tequila so mean that he would not drink it. No car so covered with birdshit and rust that he would not drive it around town (and if it were a convertible, he'd have the top down, even in rain, even in snow). There was no flag he would not desecrate, no true believer he would not mock, no song he wouldn't sign off-key, no dental appointment he wouldn't break, no child he wouldn't do tricks for, no old person he wouldn't help in from the cold, no moon he wouldn't lie under..."
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"Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules about sex as on everything else, they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers."
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"Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols."
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"I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching."
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"I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same."
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"I'd like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit."
Being
"I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll."
Thought
"That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?"
Lie
"Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter."
Beauty
"I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?"
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"To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that."
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"I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time."
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