Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was … - Joe Strummer

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Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely.

Joe Strummer

Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control and it didn't have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realised that you either became a power or you were crushed

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If you're allowed to make your mistakes, I think you should. But people don't really like hearing you admit them. Although I'd never wanted to dump on the musicians that were involved in that. . . . Because it was not their fault.

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There isn't a town in the world I haven't run amok in.

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I`m kind of like one of those people that picks up small and interesting bits of wood and doesn`t want to let go of them. Or, you know, I`m fascinated with the wrapper on a sardine can. A little cuckoo.

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You've gotta be slightly stupid.

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I want to grow up with my audience. I don't expect to be getting through to the younger pop crowd. I learned that from Paul Simon.

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My parents both renounced their material lives and were living as monks at an ashram in L. A. when they met each other. So we were always raised in this environment and when we moved to the ashram in Florida it was just like, "Oh, wow, now all of a sudden there's more people like us," because we were growing up in the middle of Texas with our parents, always being the weirdos.

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Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.

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I think hawking is the nearest thing to flying in this world. There you sit high up and poised light as air, the horse swift beneath you. You unhood your bird, let the jesses go and watch your falcon, its bells a-jingle, like some wild spirit take the air. . . and your own spirit goes with it.

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When he buys his ties he has to ask if gin will make them run.

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