Marilyn Manson quote: "Like LaVey, I had a also discovered what happens when you say something powerful that makes people think. They become afraid of you, and they neutralize your message by giving you a label that is not open to interpretation-- as a fascist, a devil worshipper or an advocate of rape and violence."

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to ackn...
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When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.
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Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like ...
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Art gives people a reason to be alive.
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If you lose emotion, and you gain it back, you realise that hate and love are very important to dist...
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The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in...
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Finding someone who's willing to drown with you creates a situation where you no longer want to ...
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I think everybody's got a presentation. Everybody looks a certain way because they want to conve...
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I like to make people think differently than they did before I walked in the room.
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When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on lo...
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If Satan wasn't around, churches would go out of business.
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If you lose who you are, what do you have?
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Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself.
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I like zombie movies. I like 'The Walking Dead;' I like the metaphor of it, simply because w...
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I pity anybody who has to spend a day with me.
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When I turned about 14, I developed a friendship with this guy whose mom was the secretary to Ernest...
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Yes, I'm reckless and sometime express no concern for my own well being, and I express a misanth...
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Don't ever empty the bucket of mystery. Never let people define what you do. It's not about ...
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My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back ...
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In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religi...
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Comedians have a huge carte blanche and the ability to get away with saying a lot of things.
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If a kid is old enough to drive a car or buy a gun, isn't he old enough to be held personally re...
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I knew that I was supposed to respond with some kind of mannered phrase that ended with "hail Satan,...
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If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your...
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What nearly everybody in my life
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Is adult amusement killing our children, or is killing our children amusing adults?
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When you want to die, you at least have a goal. You're aiming for something. It's not a good...
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There's just no great rock albums anymore. There's a lot of rock music out there, but it'...
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As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I'm still not comfortable, bu...
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To me, Satan ultimately represents rebellion.
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All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of c...
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Music is the strongest form of magic.
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On my albums, it's as though the parental advisory is built in.
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I'm not a role model. I'm a role villain.
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To admit you want to have a comeback means you have to admit you weren't what you were supposed ...
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I'm kind of shy, and I think that I take that out by performing in front of a lot of people. Tha...
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Everything I was afraid of when I was growing up, I've become. I've taken on my nightmares, ...
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I'm someone who is open-minded to new experiences because they teach you new things.
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Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'...
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My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my m...
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People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.
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Sometimes you feel awkward being what you're best at, you feel like you have to be something new...
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I think confidence is the most appealing quality in any human being or any artist; that's what r...
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I went to one AA meeting and I got asked for an autograph.
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In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or sh...
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The time that people aren't expecting what's going to happen, I find that's the best tim...
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I care about the people I know and love the most, but I also care about what the people I don't ...
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Johnny Depp is like a brother to me. We have matching tattoos on our backs - Charles Baudelaire, the...
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The point is that life for me is not going to be the way it is for everyone else. I have a fog machi...
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Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't...
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The word 'Antichrist', to me, is the collective disbelief in god.
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I used to have nightmares about the Antichrist - what would happen, where it would come from, and wh...
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I just don't like when there's a rumor that says I'm dating someone who is below my stan...
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All of my heroes, like Dali, are people who pioneered various forms of cinema.
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Anybody who does not evolve can become a self-parody. I have to evolve on a daily basis just to keep...
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I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be...
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My first dissatisfaction has always been with religion.
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I've known Johnny Depp since I was 19.
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Things have become devalued to the point where people don't realize the repercussions, that they...
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I feel like I've dreamed half of my life that hasn't happened yet, so a lot of times I'm...
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I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small...
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Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.
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We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than ...
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There are people accusing me that I'm sick, that I'm a danger to morals, western civilization and ba...
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Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats for its problems. Well, here I am.
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Music critics get their records for free so their opinions usually don't matter.
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I'm tired of people calling me a devil worshipper. It's kind of pointless you know. Because if the D...
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I view my job as being someone who is supposed to piss people off. I don't want to be just one-of-th...
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They'll see it. And it doesn't matter if they don't. It's only Rock 'n' Roll...
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[According to an official statement,] the complaints are from religious preachers who simply want pu...
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It wasn't anything spectacular or acrobatic. It was something I'd do a million times a show.
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Sacrifice to me is something you do without expecting something in return.
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In the end we're all Jerry Springer Show guests, really, we just haven't been on the show.
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I like Kylie Minogue sometimes - I like a lot of unusual stuff... I don't know - I like Justin T...
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When I was stalking my special lady friend on MySpace, people would always say, 'Is this really ...
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From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into fol...
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My grandfather had been the ugliest, darkest, foulest, most depraved figure of my childhood, more be...
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Fear is something I instill in other people, mostly young girls.
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I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe i...
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you smell like ass. you all smell like ass. am i complaining?
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I don't want to feel like I've matured. That's a stupid word that I never want to use.
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The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibi...
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Marilyn Manson is a mockery of American pop culture.
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Marilyn Manson is a criticism of gimmickry, while being itself a gimmick.
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I'm thinking about entering a Marilyn Manson costume contest to see if I lose.
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You might find me outside with a can of hair spray, spraying it with the hope that the sun will burn...
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For me, the key to longevity - and immortality, in a sense - has to do with transformation.
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I wish that my life could be like the movies, like 'Bonnie and Clyde' or 'The Hunger'...
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It's not like I turn off Marilyn Manson and I'm an everyday guy who goes and has another job and doe...
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If one more 'journalist' makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally ...
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And that's the type of thing I'm trying to speak out against the most, religion controlling what we ...
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The word 'Antichrist' ,to me, is the collective disbelief in god.
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I wasn't born with enough middle fingers.
MARILYN MANSON

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking th...
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I just think that you should, you know, be a professional drug user. If you're going to use drugs do...
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I'm not against God. I'm against the Misuse of God.
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You have to be saved to get into heaven....you only have to be you to get into hell.
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You should have to pass an IQ test before you breed. You have to take a driving test to operate vehi...
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When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?
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Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.
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I'm thankful that I have two middle fingers... I only wish I had more.
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My desire is to be pure again and not dirtied by the world. But it's my duty to be as ugly and filth...
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The record is about seeing death and growing from it, and in the end, being strong and being alive.
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What would Marilyn Manson be if no one hated Marilyn Manson?
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Have you ever tried riding a pig, painted black, really high on drugs, wearing a cowboy hat?
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You can't force someone to see the truth, just like you can't force a blind man to see.
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I pity anyone who has to spend the day with me.
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what happens someday if more people own my record than the bible? that will make me god because a lo...
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It's the whole Nietzche philosophy of you are your own God. That's why I debase myself in the concer...
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A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be t...
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I just try to make people think. I don't try to shock them or scare them. I just try and get them to...
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If someone listen's to our music, and it makes them creative, that makes me happier than anything.
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I've always been paranoid about the police, because even when I'm not doing anything illegal, I'm th...
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That's the key. You make your body a place where germs don't wanna live.
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This is the culture you're raising your kids in. Don't be surprised if it blows up in your face.
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There was a saying that I saw on a packet of sugar and I think anyone can apply it to their life: 'D...
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There's days when I'd love for everybody to realize that things have gone too far, and that we need ...
MARILYN MANSON

I view my job as being someone who is supposed to piss people off. I don't want to be just one-of-th...
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"I think art is the only thing that's spirtual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in ot...
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There's nothing like the feeling of knowing that you've made a difference in someone's life, even if...
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I fear being like everyone I hate, I fear failure, I fear losing control. I love balancing between c...
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The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front o...
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I'm in the final stages with one of the major companies,
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Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?
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If I really got my ribs removed, I would have been busy sucking my own dick on the wonder years inst...
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Marilyn Manson is simply too dangerous for Darien Lake.
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We don't like to kill our unborn; we need them to grow up and fight our wars.
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America puts killers on the cover of 'TIME' magazine, giving them as much notoriety as our f...
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Jesus is a half-naked guy, hanging, nailed to a cross, and then people wear that around their neck, ...
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But through years of myth-making and fear-sowing, Christianity meta-morphosed antichrists into a sin...
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I'd wear that stuff anyway.
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I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference.
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I need to broaden my horizons really
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Antichrist Superstar.
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They'll see it. And it doesn't matter if they don't. It's only Rock 'n' Roll. But I do intend to mov...
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In the end we're all Jerry Springer Show guests, really, we just haven't been on the show.
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There is a hurricane ablowing and just by knowing what you know, you have an advantage to the blind ...
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the fact that nobody liked me at school began to fade out of my mind like blue magic marker reminder...
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These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it...
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I've never been or never will be a Satan Worshipper, or someone who worships the Devil.
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I'm so famous, people expect me to sell as many records as Celine Dion or Puff Daddy.
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For me, art is supposed to be a question mark.
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I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.
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People expect me to me a 'shock rocker,' but there's nothing you can do anymore to be sh...
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Rumors, stories... I'm used to them. I got my ribs removed, I was on 'The Wonder Years'....
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I never said to be like me, I say be yourself and make a difference.
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I often obsess so much about things that I can't get done, that I ruin other things.
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I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.
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If I were in a room full of people, I'd rather be the person who is more interesting than the on...
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I was a pizza delivery boy at the Pizza Oven in Canton. I wanted to get fired so bad, I actually wre...
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I did vote Obama. But I've never believed in the authenticity of the two-party system.
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Are people raised to be villains or vilified like I have become?
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Yeah, I bought a Nintendo DS a couple of weeks ago. That things pretty neat.
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People always ask me what advantages fame has started to bring; there are always plenty of free drin...
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I speak in reality. I don't try to hide anything from anybody, and that's the most dangerous thing a...
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And, of course, the one that liked me was heavily medicated and obsessed with killing herself.
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As you keep getting more popular people are continually wanting more from you and it seems to me tha...
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I don't like fun, it upsets me.
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a notoriety that has spread all over the globe.
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I'm not a believer of the 'perfect world' TV tries to feed us.
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Antichrist Superstar is also about me wanting to grow up and be something that people would adore......
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Art is the free expression of the artist and they tried to stop us from expressing ourselves, our ar...
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I live for unpredictability and surprise, and I can assure you that the biggest surprises are still ...
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I was always trying to do different things to entertain people. And, at the same time I think I was,...
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I like to pose the question to myself: Am I a man who thinks he's an Angel or an Angel who thinks he...
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Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing abo...
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For me it's very important to express my thoughts, the pictures I carry inside of me, maybe because ...
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When people say 'I want to be like you', I tell them if you want to be like me then be yourself.
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I think every man and woman is a star. It's just a matter of realizing and becoming it. It's all a m...
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I think that if our music didn't mean anything to anyone, we wouldn't be having this conversation ri...
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Being your own god really has nothing to do with Satan.
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Um, I think Jesus was, ah, the first sex symbol.
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If I believed in an outside force that we wanted to call God - and I believe that there is one, mayb...
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Just enjoy every day to the fullest. That's all you can do.
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i talked to Snoop doggy dogg today. well I'm not sure if you could realy call it talked because I co...
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After Jennifer was sent home safely with a designated driver, she later got behind the wheel of her ...
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It's a victory for art.
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I'm everything they are afraid of. Everything they hate. Everything they try to hide and a lot more....
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Good and evil go hand in hand, you can't seperate them.
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Thinking for yourself, that's scarier than any devil image.
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I feel like someone who I wouldn't let my own daughter fuck, and I also feel like someone who, if I ...
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Why should we believe in a god that doesn't believe in us?
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I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a strugg...
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I can't go to sleep at night if I didn't accomplish at least something. That's the one t...
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It's my job to be the Pierrot, the clown, in the theatrical sense.
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La bestia de la cual vivían atemorizados era en realidad ellos mismos: Era el hombre, no algún dem...
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The most valuable thing [Anton LaVey] did that day was to help me understand and come to terms with ...
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Whatever doesn't kill you, it's gonna leave a scar
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I never really hated one true god
But the god of all the people I hated
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We've always found that with people being so desensitized, things have to be really shocking and hav...
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In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show t...
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The imagination is precious. Don't lose it. Don't lose the child in you.
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The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth.
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Find what you are afraid of, face it, and then you won't be afraid of it anymore.
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everybody has a light and a dark side, and neither can exist without the other.
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The key to changing the way people think is to change what’s popular. That’s why rather than sub...
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I’ve always been paranoid about the police, because even when I’m not doing anything illegal I�...
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People don’t keep journals for themselves. They keep them for other people, like a secret they don...
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hello world and hello universe. Thank you all very much
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The apocalypse doesn’t have to be fire and brimstone. It could happen on a personal level. If you ...
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Like LaVey, I had a also discovered what happens when you say something powerful that makes people think. They become afraid of you, and they neutralize your message by giving you a label that is not open to interpretation-- as a fascist, a devil worshipper or an advocate of rape and violence.

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