The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys and bad guys, punks and studs, tough guys and softies, butch and faggot, black and white. It is an ideal so paralytically infantile that it is virtually forbidden -- as an unpatriotic act -- that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood.
Quotes about punks (13 Quotes)
It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.
This is a small church that was planted about five years ago with a focus on the post-modern generation. Goths, punks, homosexuals and yuppies make up a large part of the 80,000 people living within a half mile walking radius of the church.
I cannot express how I feel about the loss of our son. He can't watch his boys grow up because of what these vicious, selfish punks did. He no longer can say, 'I love you Mom.'
We are simultaneously the most hated, loved, feared and admired nation on this planet. In short, we are Frank Sinatra. And the Chairman didn't make his bones laying down for punks...
It has to be said, we must all own up that without Les Paul, generations of flash little punks like us would be in jail or cleaning toilets. This man, by his genius, made the road that we still travel today. I don't know how he did it, but I'm so grateful he did, said Keith Richards, as quoted in the
(Billie Joe on his childhood-) ...and then there would be the punks that sit up on the plaza who were the scariest people, because ya know, they would kick your ass. Especially if you ended up showing up if you were like a new punk guy. They'd just, rip the shirt off your back. They were mean. Cruel people. (Interviewer-) Then of course you became one of them (Billie-) Yeah, ya know (laughter) But I was a nicer one for sure
I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends' parents were punks or hippies.
Fans and collaborators attribute this success to Green Day's return to punk's outspoken, politically volatile roots. There was an element of danger to pretty much anything the Clash or the Sex Pistols were saying, ... But if you look at the last five or six years, you'll see there's been no danger, or real statement that talked to kids directly 'What's your government doing What is your news telling you at six o'clock on Channel 4 Why do you have to believe that'
I never understood why the metal heads in my school hated the punks.
Maybe they weren't punks at all, but New York drama critics.
Regis can do anything these young punks can do. I fit right in there with my Fox people. They want Regis to dance, Regis will dance. They want Regis to lift weights with them, Regis will lift weights with them. Whatever they want
Apologists for the drug trade often argue that the upper classes and the political establishment in Bogota would never have opposed the drug trade if it had not enabled former punks and small-time hoods to buy property in the posh neighborhoods, and they may be right.