"You can't understand a user's mind/ buy try with your books and degrees/ if you let yourself go and open your mind/ and you'll be doing like me/ and it aint so bad..." --Alice in Chains

"In the darkest hole/Youd be well advised/Not to plan my funeral before the body dies"--"Grind"

"I say, live long enough to repay all who cause strife...by the \ way...by the way...by the way..." -- Alice in Chains

"When I'm down and blue/Rather be me than you..."--Alice in Chains

"You know I'm not a violent guy, but blood and teeth are going to fly" -- Anonymous

"My time is like a piece of wax, dripping on a termite thats choking on the splinters" -- Beck Hansen

"Maybe people do think of me as just another pinko faggot, a bleeding heart, a do-gooder. But that's what I am" -- Leonard Bernstein

If you ever get close to a human, or to human behaviour, you'd better be ready to get confused.-- Bjork

"All schools are strange" -- Marc Bolan

"Don't pick fights with the bullys or the cads 'cause I'm not much cop at punching other people's dads/and if the homework brings you down/we'll throw it on the fire and take the car downtown" --"Lover's Story"

"...and I cried for all the others til the day was nearly through /For I realized that God's a young man too"--"Width of A Circle"

"Inside every teenage girl is a fountain/Inside every young pair of pants is a mountain/Inside every mother's eyes..is Tommy Tincrum's bed/Inside every candidate/There waits a grateful dead..." --"Candidate"

"I am a DJ/I am what I play" -- "DJ"

"Look out all you Rock 'n Rollers...[chorus]... Pretty soon you're going to get older" -- "Changes"

"Love is careless in its choosing/Sweeping over cross and baby/ Love descends on those defenseless/Idiot love will spark the fushion/Inspirations have I none/Just to touch the flaming dove/ All I have is my love of love/And love is not loving"--"Soul Love"

"Now I'm learning to be a part of society"--"Screem Like a Baby"

"See these eyes of green/I could stare for a thousand years/Colder than the moon/Its been so long.../And Ive been putting out fires.... /...with gasoline"--"Theme from Cat People"

"As my father said, as he died in arms, 'I never understood any of it'"--Boys in the Band

"Give me librium or give me meth!"--Boys in the Band

"One thing you can say for masturbation is that you certainly dont have to look your best"--Boys in the Band

"The treatment is symptomatic, which means there isn't any" --William S. Burroughs

"I learned that when you're frozen solid, you really don't think about sex very much" -- Buck Bundy

"When you meet my father, just talk about sports and bodily functions. Its what he knows--its what he likes" --Kelly Bundy

"Tommy played piano like a kid out in the rain/Then he lost his leg in Dallas dancing with a train" -- Butthole Surfers

"The U.S. and England [unlike Europe and Japan] are basically at war with their children and families and have destroyed them, purposely. Purposeful, conscious social policy has been to attack and destroy family values and children" --Noam Chomsky

"Spaceboy they'll kill me/ but before Im dead and gone/ any way you choose me/it wont be wrong"-- Billy Corgan

"And they bring them to the factory/Where the heart attack machine is strapped across their shoulders/And then the kersosene/Is brought down from the castles by insurance men who go/Check to see that nobody's escaping from Desolation Row"--"Desolation Row"

"Anybody can be just like me obviously, but then again only a few can be like you fortunately" --"Positively Sweet Marie"

"The peddler now speaks to the countess who's pretending to care for him/Saying name me someone who's not a parasite and I'll go out and say a prayer for him/But like Louise always says, 'You cant't look at much, can you, man?' as she herself prepares for him/And Madonna she still hasnt showed/See this empty cage now corrode/As the fiddler now steps to the road/Says, 'Everything's been returned that was owed'/On the back of the fish truck that loads while my conscience explodes/Harmonicas play the skelaton keys in the rain/And the visions of Johanna are now all that remain."--Visions of Johanna"

"I've been in jail/Where all my mail showed/Where a man cant give his address out to bad company"--"Positively Sweet Marie"

"I've made shoes for everyone even you, but still I go barefoot" --"I and I"

"You see me on the street/You always act suprised/You say how are you, good luck, but you dont mean it/When you know just as well as me youd rather see me paralyzed/Why dont you just come out for once and screem it/No I do not feel so good when I see heartbreaks you embrace/If I was a master thief perhaps Id rob them/And I know that youre disatisfied with your position and your place/Dont you understand thats not my problem/Yes I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes/And for just one moment I could be you/Yes I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes/Youd know then what a drag it is to see you"-- "Positively West Fourth Street"

"I'll live my life on the square" -- "Standing in the Doorway"

"Whenever somebody sees me they only want to start a conversation" --Harvey Fierstein

"Music is an inspiration to action" --Jean Genet

"Summertime, when living is easy/ Fish are jumping/ Cotton's high/ Your Daddys rich/ And your mas good looking/ So no no no baby baby baby dont you cry" -- George Gershwin?

"Commerce makes progress. Fortune passes everywhere" - DUNE by Frank Herbert

"What course others will take I do not know, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death" -Patrick Henry

"...and your late night friends leave you in the cold grey dawn" --Mick Jagger

"You gave me a cure-all in New Orleans/Thats a recipe I sure do need/Some cider vinegar and some elderberry wine/Cure all your ills it cant cure mine/Your Louisiana recipes have let me down/ Your Louisiana recipes have surely let me down/Til the next time we say goodbye (repeat)/Til the next time we kiss goodnight/I'll be thinking of you" --Mick Jagger

"Money is the root of all evil" -- Jesus

"As we discover on the train, there is never a tomorrow, its always the same f****** day" - Janis Joplin

"As I grew my bones hurt/They hurt very bad. I tried hard to have a father/still I have a dad. I just want you to know/ That I dont hate you anymore. There is nothing I could say I havent thought before" --Kurt Cobain

"I know you/And you know me/One thing I can tell is you got to be free"--John Lennon

"Imagine no posessions/I wonder if you can/no need for greed or hunger/a brotherhood of man/imagine all the people sharing all the world" -- John Lennon

"If I have any advice to give someone it would be cherish those close to you and let them know you appreciate them" -- Loki

"I don't like the drugs / but the drugs like me." --Maryln Manson

"When you have friends you form a band. When youre lonley you write". -- Maryln Manson

"You'll never see me looking in through any window any way" --Freddie Mercury

"I just know what is going to happen to people who care about things"--Hal Moore, RIP 1957-1984.

"Keep your eyes on the road and your hand upon the wheel" --Jim Morrison

"She just did it so badly. Her own diary was typically teenage -- maudlin, filled with 'profound' lines from popular songs, bits of her own dreadful poetry." -- THE BOY by Naeem Murr

"Triggers are for pulling"--THE BOY by Naeem Murr

"It takes chaos to give birth to a dancing star"

The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.

"The spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child"

"When Zarathustra had heard these words he bade the saint farewell and said: "What could I have to give you? But let me go quickly lest I take something from you!" And thus they seperated, the old one and the man, laughing as two boys laugh."

"I'm tired of screwing up/ I'm tired of being down/ I'm tired of myself/ I'm tired of bein' down." -- Tom Petty

"Hes annoyed. 'My name is Ed King," he said precisely. 'K-i-n-g. What the hell are people afraid of giving their last names for? ...' Then almost gently: 'Was that your first time on 42nd Street?'" -- John Rechy

"And sister she got married on the island and her husband takes the train/and he's big and he's fat/and he doesnt even have a brain" --"Kill Your Sons" SALLY CANT DANCE

"I'm just a shy guy/ no words to say" -- "The Kids", BERLIN

"In the name of family values, we must ask whose family?" --"Sex with Your Parents" TWILIGHT REELING

"Johnny Rio and Rotten Rita/We'll never hear their stories again" --"Halloween Parade" NEW YORK

"Men of Good Fortune often cant do anything/While men of poor beginnings/Often can do anything/At heart he tries to act like a man/Handle things...the best way he can/He has no rich...Daddy to fall back on..."--"Men of Good Fortune", BERLIN

"Remember that the city is a funny place/Something like a circus or a zoo/and that different people have peculiar tastes/But the glory of love will see you through" --"Coney Island Baby"

"This is no time for inner searching, the future is at hand" --"There is No Time"NEW YORK

"We'll put Jim down by the alley/Never have to come home/ Standing on the corner/A million ways to get back home" --"Sweet Jane"

"When the smack begins to flow/and it shoots up the dropper's neck/ then I really dont care any more/about those jimjims in this town/ everyone pushing/everyone around/ all those politicians making crazy sounds/and the dead bodys piling up in mounds..." --"Heroin"

"You and me are just like money and time. It flies but cant stand up" -- "Pale Blue Eyes"

"Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you do not let other people spend it for you."--Carl Sandburg

"I always know where I am by how the road looks" --Gus Van Sant

"You know ma's brain are smaall/Cant think of nothing at aall/Not the same as you and me/Doesnt dig poetry/When you say Dylan, she thinks you're talking about Dylan Thomas/Whoever he was!/But its alright ma!/Everybody must get sto-oned.."--Paul Simon

"...maybe Adiel is right that the machinery of capitalism is oiled by the blood of the workers"-- Homer J. Simpson

"I wish I was a robot just like you/Doing all the groovy things that you do/Like brushing your teeth and going to sleep/And having all those dirty dreams you wouldnt tell your mommy/Groovy Groovy/Baby Sock it to me!/Gosh and Golly/Oh Gee Wiz!"--Summer Camp Counselor

"We admitted that we were powerless over our [compulsive behavior] --that our lives had become unmanageable"--The Twelve Step Programs

"I argued that it was a teacher's duty to speak frankly to students of college age about all sorts of concerns of humankind, not just the subject of a course as stated in the catalog. 'Thats how we gain their trust, and encourage them to speak up as well,' I said, 'and realize that all subjects do not reside in neat little compartments, but are continuous and inseperable from the on big subject we have been put on Earth to study, which is life itself.'" HOCUS POCUS, Kurt Vonnegut

"Good health is more important than money, companionship, or love" -- Andy Warhol <

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