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Most of those who spend their lives as critics secretly wish they'd be considered important enough for someone to bother criticizing them.

Jim Goad

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Jim Goad
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 12
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the fact that they stole their whole shtick from Woody Guthrie and the coal-mining bards. While the alternative nation meows about personal fashion angst, the Appalachian nation still sings about unemployment.
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I can't tell you how many times people - through the anonymity and safety of the Internet, of course - have told me 'You beat women' as if it was an ongoing, daily thing. The only person ever brave enough to say it to my face quickly surrendered his courage when I said, 'Would you like to step outside and see if I can beat men, too?'
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Liberating is a gay word, so let's phrase it this way: I know everything about me and still manage to be good friends with myself, so nothing anyone says that's truthful about me ever bothers me.
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I don't think fatherhood's changed me so much as it's conjured protective instincts I've had all along.
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