What children learn from punishment is that might makes right. When they are old and strong enough, they will try to get their ownback; thus many children punish their parents by acting in ways distressing to them.
A real punk is punk on the inside.
You guys are lucky, cuz in Europe, like you can show boobs on TV and like in magazines and what not. We're Americans so the slightest, the slightest glimpse of a nipple will.
Once I was in the Blink-182, going to Iraq was really touching. It was kind of emo for me, going and meeting soldiers who were, like, 19 and hadn't even met their kids. . . Or dealing with depression. Just being with those soldiers and traveling with them in helicopters and people with M-16s. It was an eye-opener.
Make yourself look really stupid so you don't feel bad doing something a little stupid.
From a very early age, my wife and I told our son that there are times and places for everything. I told him, look, when you're in class, you have to be quiet and listen to your teacher, but when you go out to the playground, you can scream and be silly.
I hate it when people try to act cool. I hope they all get gonorreah and die.
A picture of my existence. . . would show a useless wooden stake covered in snow. . . stuck loosely at a slant in the ground in a ploughed field on the edge of a vast open plain on a dark winter night.
I had an old typewriter and a big idea.
Let us remember with devotion that the flag we love and honor is the flag of freedom that flew in victory at Yorktown, the flag the United States Marines raised on Mount Suribachi, the flag Francis Scott Key saw by the dawn's early light. Long may it wave.
I would have been a disaster as a career politician. I would never have toed a party line.