Bruce Springsteen Quotes

• “Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.”

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• “Walk tall, or baby don't walk at all.”

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• “Now everyone dreams of a love faithful and true,
  But you and I know what this world can do.
  So let's make our steps clear so the other may see.
  And I'll wait for you...should I fall behind wait for me.”

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• “The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.”

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• “You can't start a fire
  Worrying 'bout your little world falling apart
  This gun's for hire
  Even if we're just dancing in the dark”

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• “Is a dream a lie if it don't come true? Or is it something worse?”

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• “She's a walkin', talkin' reason to live.”

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• “It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive.”

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• “The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band.”

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• “We honor our parents by carrying their best forward and laying the rest down. By fighting and taming the demons that laid them low and now reside in us.”

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• “Don't run back inside, darlin', you know just what I'm here for. So you're scared and you're thinkin' we ain't that young any more...Show a little faith! There's magic in the night. You ain't a beauty, but hey, you're all right.”

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• “God have mercy on the man
  who doubts what he's sure of.”

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• “The best music... is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.”

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• “Talk about a dream,
  try to make it real”

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• “Will you walk with me out on the wire, cuz baby, I'm just a scared and lonely rider, but I gotta know how it feels... I want to know love is wild, babe, I want to know love is real.”

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• “I leave pansies, the symbolic flower of freethought, in memory of the Great Agnostic, Robert Ingersoll, who stood for equality, education, progress, free ideas and free lives, against the superstition and bigotry of religious dogma. We need men like him today more than ever. His writing still inspires us and challenges the 'better angels' of our nature, when people open their hearts and minds to his simple, honest humanity. Thank goodness he was here.”

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• “All I do know is as we age the weight of our unsorted baggage becomes heavier . . . much heavier. With each passing year, the price of our refusal to do that sorting rises higher and higher.”

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• “We said we'd walk together baby come what may.That come the twilight should we lose our way.If as we're walkin a hand should slip free,I'll wait for you
  And should I fall behind,Wait for me.
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• “I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.”

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• “No one you have been and no place you have gone ever leaves you. The new parts of you simply jump in the car and go along for the rest of the ride. The success of your journey and your destination all depend on who's driving.”

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• “For the ones who had a notion,
  a notion deep inside
  That it ain't no sin
  to be glad you're alive”

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• “Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.”

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• “When it rains, the moisture in the humid air blankets our town with the smell of damp coffee grounds wafting in from the Nescafé factory at the town’s eastern edge. I don’t like coffee but I like that smell. It’s comforting; it unites the town in a common sensory experience; it’s good industry, like the roaring rug mill that fills our ears, brings work and signals our town’s vitality. There is a place here—you can hear it, smell it—where people make lives, suffer pain, enjoy small pleasures, play baseball, die, make love, have kids, drink themselves drunk on spring nights and do their best to hold off the demons that seek to destroy us, our homes, our families, our town.”

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• “I'm ready to grow young again”

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• “They say "ya gotta stay hungry"...
  Hey Baby...I'm just about starvin' tonight!”

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