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"Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed."
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"America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash--and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumberable editions of The Lamplighter (by Maria Susanna Cummins), and other books neither better nor worse? Worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by the hundred thousand."

"America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there."

"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."

"If you take any populated place - any major city in America - and drive 45 minutes from that spot directly out of town you'll be in about as country a place as you'll ever find."

"My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted."

"I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America."
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"These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way."

"We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves."

"Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best."

"I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means."

"People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity."

"They'll see it. And it doesn't matter if they don't. It's only Rock 'n' Roll. But I do intend to move more into the Mainstream. Marilyn Manson is just the First phase."

"When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?"

"A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do."

"Find out what's really out there. I never said to be like me, I say be like you and make a difference."
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