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My motto is, 'What's the hurry?' I'm trying to get it across to the modern world that we need to sit around and think a little bit more.

— Joe Strummer

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Everyone has got to realise you can't hold onto the past if you want any future. Each second should lead to the next one.

When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.

Interview with Judy McGuire for Punk Magazine (2001)

The men at the factory are old and cunning

In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human being. Fuck being an asshole, what you pussies thought it was twenty years ago.

Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.

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