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Good fashion for me is like rock ‘n’ roll – there’s always a little rebellion in it.

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Ernest Gaines

He told us that most of us would die violently, and those who did not would be brought down to the level of beasts.

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Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.

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Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity.

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I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.

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Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

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