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I found the key to the universe in the engine of an old parked car.

Bruce Springsteen

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Bruce Springsteen
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: September 23
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Long Branch
New Jersey
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen
The Boss
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An unfulfilled life makes a hard man.
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I took a month long vacation in the stratosphere, and you know it's very hard to hold your breath.
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We're gonna play some pool, skip some school, act real cool, stay out all night, it's gonna be alright.
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If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly: it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it. It is well said in the old proverb, 'a lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on'.
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The school system only recognizes one type of intelligence. There are so many different types of intelligence.
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The life of a rock & roll band will last as long as you can look down into the audience and see yourself.
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Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley through the middle of my soul.
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I want to spit in the face of these badlands.
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I always write with an audience in mind. If I feel that [connection] coming back at me then I feel like I'm doing my job. That's why people come to my music - for some emotional experience or a perspective, either on their own lives, or on the world that they're living in.
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