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“It was the only free country left in the world," he once said, not talking about America but about rock'n'roll in America, or anywhere else. "No boundaries, no passports. There wasn't even a government.” quote by Greil Marcus — Download Open image

““It was the only free country left in the world," he once said, not talking about America but about rock'n'roll in America, or anywhere else. "No boundaries, no passports. There wasn't even a government.””

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As I write, Johnny Rotten's first moments in "Anarchy in the U.K." - a rolling earthquake of a laugh, a buried shout, then hoary words somehow stripped of all claptrap and set down in the city streets - I AM AN ANTICHRIST - Remain as powerful as anything I know. Listening to the record today - listening to the way…

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Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits.

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“[Listening to a song] one could experience a freedom from one's physical body, and from one's social body - the mask you wore to go about in public among those who thought they knew you, an unchosen mask of nervousness and tradition, the mask that, when owrn too long, makes the face behind it shrivel up and rot away. For…

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Records that were the sound of somebody - more often than not, a she - speaking with a voice that had never been heard before. Somebody who'd never had the nerve to speak up before. I felt: 'I wanna meet these people.' Which is unusual for me: I don't usually want to meet the people who are making music that…

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For your information, I'm staying like this, and everyone else can just get used to it! If people don't like me the way I am, well TOUGH BEANS! It's a free country! I don't need anyone's permission to be the way I want! This is who I am - Take it or leave it!

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“Everybody else got off the train at Hell, but I figured, it’s a free country.”

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“Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country? Plato: I have, and think it odd they do this. Socrates: How so, Plato? Plato: It is like reminding a baker he is a baker, or a sculptor he is a sculptor. Socrates: You mean to say…

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“Christianity in its fullness and truth has been restored to the earth by direct revelation. The restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the most significant fact since the resurrection of Jesus Christ. What was restored? In a very real sense, the true Law of the Harvest was restored – the law of justice, the law of mercy, the…

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The fact is that many countries that call themselves free succumbed to medical dictatorship...people are sicker and less healthy...A country which mandates vaccination is…

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If he wants to be an asshole, it's a free country. Millions before him have made the same life choice.

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I still believe in the American Dream. I see it in terms of freedom, and a government that trusts its people to exercise freedom, that this is not a government that allows you to give, that allows you to explore, and doesn't dampen your own creativity - in the broadest sense - with a lot of dictums or dogmas or…

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Obamacare comes to more than two thousand pages of rules, mandates, taxes, fees, and fines that have no place in a free country.

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We Americans like to believe we live in a free country with the right to use the justice system to ensure that government abuses…

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America is still a free country - nobody is saying it isn't - but we accept that, in the face of discernible risk, or…

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In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference.

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No writer in a free country should be expected to bother about the exact demarcation between the sensuous and the sensual; this is preposterous; I can only admire but cannot emulate the accuracy of judgment of those who pose the fair young mammals photographed in magazines where the general neckline is just low enough to provoke a past master's chuckle…

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