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We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

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Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#audience #consistency #demands #getting #hard

But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

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There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

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That's why I never took this business too seriously, thinking I was something special, when I knew the truly great performers in motion pictures. pictures. ↗

— Robert Stack

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There are lasting consequences for using drugs. I'll still be paying for my prior use. ↗

— Layne Staley

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I'm not a genetically superior person. I built my body. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

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I've never wanted to become a politician, an interior decorator, I've never wanted to speculate and make a load of money. I just wanted this. ↗

— Terence Stamp

#decorator #i #interior #just #load

I am a professional performer and I only appear on TV for entertainment or for philanthropic organizations, and I consider this a very serious matter that doesn't fit into either category. ↗

— Lionel Stander

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Sometimes they keep us in the dark, but it's TV, so sometimes they keep us in the dark because even they don't know yet. You know what I mean? So, it sort of develops as it goes along and according to various needs that arise. ↗

— Aaron Stanford

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