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"So basically the understanding on these so-called reissues is that they were done behind my back, without my permission, and the band informed me that I would no longer be paid on them at all."
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"If I don't understand you, I may be angry at you, all the time. We are not capable of understanding each other, and that is the main source of human suffering."

"You need to understand what goal you were created for and you need to understand your destination."

"Love has no meaning without understanding."

"There is always something behind patience and impatience! Be careful enough to understand these two things any time you meet anybody, the patience and impatience of the person!"

"A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it."

"Many Christians have no understanding of God's fatherhood."

"I will admit that we as young rebels always wanted fundamentalists to understand our take on their religion, but rarely, if ever, the other way around. The fundamentalists are the real artists. If you saw only a masterpiece of an original painting and someone threw a splash of red across it saying that their version is better, you would be offended too."

"Sex is a form of exploration, it is asking questions and getting answer."

"One of great arts of communication is the skill of listening to people."

"Judging others shackles them to the cold iron of our limited notions."
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"Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it."

"They've gone to great length to disguise the fact that I'm not in the band, even sending out a photo to promoters with my picture in it which then winds up in some of the ads on the flyers."

"Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board."

"Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible."

"I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco."

"I'm totally down with insurrection in the street. I've had a great time with that over the years. Insurrection in the voting booth is the other part of the equation."
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