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Hell Quotes


"Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing."


"An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell."


"I wanted to do the whole album in black and white, and it really killed me that when you see it in the light it's got green in it. I don't know what the hell that was about."


"I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect."


"If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?"


"A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell."


"I think a guy who's had just the right amount of booze can sing the blues a hell of a lot better than a guy who is stone sober."


"And I think musicians can better run this state than politicians. And, hell, beauticians can better run the state than politicians."


"Publicity gets more than a little tiring. You want it, you need it, you crave it, and you're scared as hell when it stops."


"On the subject of Osama bin Laden... we will track him down. We will capture him. We will bring him to justice, and I will follow him to the gates of hell."


"I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go to hell, as we have unconfessed sins on our consciences."
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"I spent two weeks prancing around a studio in Queens in my underwear with nine other guys. They were long days. But what the hell, it was Calvin Klein."
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"I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?"


"In Hell all the messages you ever left on answering machines will be played back to you."


"When some guy shows up with a shopping bag full of records and CD's and wants me to sign every one plus fifteen pieces of blank paper I wonder what the hell is he doing with all of that?"


"Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too."


"And I liked pluralist Australia. I got a taste for pluralist Australia. I like, I like Australians and I can't believe that they're going to go to hell because they tell a good dirty joke, you know."
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