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Since I was 14, I wanted to make music, but I think I would also have made a good policeman. When I was eight, I wanted to be one so I could tell people off.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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Sometimes, it's better to stop thinking and trust your instincts. That's what I used to do when I first started making music, but as time goes on, you can sometimes over-intellectualise things.
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The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill. If we are to have a billion dollars of navy, half a billion of farm relief, etc. the people will have to furnish more revenue by paying more taxes. It is for them, through their Congress, to decide how far they wish to go.
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The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.
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The business of America is business and the chief ideal of the American people is idealism.
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The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.
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The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.
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The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
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The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
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The most powerful presentations were based on legal precedents, especially Calvin's Case (1608), which, it was claimed, proved on the authority of Coke and Bacon that subjects of the King are by no means necessarily subjects of Parliament.
Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 225 -
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?
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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
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The thing is, any time anyone invades anyone on stage, the invader always looks really bad no matter what point they're proving - obviously that applies to myself too.
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The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
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