Tim McIlrath - Straight Edge

Straight Edge

Tim and his bandmates, except for Barnes, are straight edge; a lifestyle that eliminates drugs, alcohol and tobacco, but can also encompass other things seen as potentially addictive such as promiscuous sex or caffeine.

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Famous quotes containing the words straight and/or edge:

    Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue.
    Ecclesiasticus Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus, 28:17-8.