I hate the bloody highways. I hate hamburgers, I hate Greyhound buses. I'd have liked to have been … - Shane MacGowan

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Reality is for people that lack imagination.

Shane MacGowan

I hate the bloody highways. I hate hamburgers, I hate Greyhound buses. I'd have liked to have been in America during the Jazz Age, or the Golden Age of Hollywood.

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The most important thing to remember about drunks is that drunks are far more intelligent than non-drunks- they spend a lot of time talking in pubs, unlike workaholics who concentrate on their careers and ambitions, who never develop their higher spiritual values, who never explore the insides of their head like a drunk does.

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I'm just following the Irish tradition of songwriting, the Irish way of life, the human way of life. Cram as much pleasure into life, and rail against the pain you have to suffer as a result. Or scream and rant with the pain, and wait for it to be taken away with beautiful pleasure. . .

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My mother was a champion Irish dancer and singer and most of my family were musical, particularly in Irish dancing. Music is all about spewing out your emotions. A mixture of a good tune and a good beat and everyone playing their guts out and something that grabs people's attention.

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The only politician anybody ever believed was Kennedy, anyway. Kennedy, Martin Luther King - civil rights always turns out in bloody war. Where's his dream now? When is a change going to come - as Sam Cooke said - for blacks in America? Anyone who does tell the truth gets a bullet in the head, y'know what I mean?

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Cram as much pleasure as you can into life, and rail against the pain that you have to suffer as a result.

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It would seem that it was not in the interest of 'someone' for us to make progress. It was in 'someone's' interest that we be always at war, that we tear each other to pieces. Yes, I'm inclined to absolve the Pakistanis. How should they have behaved? Someone encouraged them to attack us, someone gave them weapons to attack us. And they attacked us.

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Hillary Clinton

I would like the Supreme Court to understand that voting rights are still a big problem in many parts of America, that we don't always do everything we can to make it possible for people of color and older people and young people to be able to exercise their franchise.

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William Faulkner

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

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Hayao Miyazaki

Reality is for people that lack imagination.

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Pema Chodron

Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.

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