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> [By the time I was 18, I had absorbed punk rock from America, Britain, and the West Coast. All of it was so dark and weird and different and cool and hot and sexy and rebellious. It was a fist-in-the-air…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-stipe/by-the-time-i-was-18-i-had-absorbed-punk-rock-from-america-britain/)

[Michael Stipe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-stipe/)

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