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"I went for an outrageous form of expressing myself. It seemed to be a way that I could make my name and show that I was somebody."
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"Great was the name of Abraham, but all his Sons were not accepted; only Isaac was in the Covenant."

"Back then, everyone was Lana and Rock. No one had ethnic names."

"I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented to be named Rock."

"My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights?"
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"I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names."

"By the early '70s I had gotten reasonable and I started to get in hundreds of groups that rehearsed and never played at all. I mean, the most important thing was to look good and have a great name."
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"The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who "disappeared". That's what the candle is for."

"Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government."

"Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice."

"Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or "disappearance" to be carried out by their officials with impunity."

"It's the publicity function of Amnesty that I think has made its name so widely known, not only to readers in the world, but to governments - and that's what matters."
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