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“As a teenager and a young adult, I never felt like my own story was interesting enough to tell, so I always wrote lyrics from someone else's perspective - told someone else's story.”
Source : "Beirut". Interview with Marc Hogan, pitchfork.com. August 31, 2011.
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“No one wants life to end. It was bad enough when my last tour came to an end.”
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“I'm always on a train or a plane, so wherever I happen to be is home.”
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“The late King's great service for the Muslim world and his noble deeds of charity and assistance for the poor of humanity will be long remembered with reverence.”
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“We all confidently believe that there are at present, and have been from time immemorial, many worlds of life besides our own. . . . [This] may seem wild, and visionary; all I maintain is that it is not unscientific.”
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“I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.”
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“If you add up all the federal and you look at the disability and the unemployment and the Social Security and the state, my tax rate's 62, 63 percent. So I've got to make some decisions on what I'm going to do.”
Source : "Phil Mickelson may quit golf due to rising taxes". www.sbnation.com. January 21, 2013.
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“Make every song is your best song to date.”