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David Swanson

"Breaking the United States up into a number of pieces could be very good for the integration of those new nations with the rest of the world and the international law whose primary enemy is now the United States government. I think that it would be very good for democracy, for people to be within some hundreds of miles of their nation's capital, as they are in many other countries, so that they didn't have to travel thousands of miles to protest, to exercise their First Amendment rights, but that is the current state of affairs in this overly large, imperial nation."

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David Swanson

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“A nation's budget is full of moral implications; it tells what a society cares about and what it does not care about; it tells what its values are.”
“There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything”
“I was always writing scripts, and I had made several shorts, before and after film school. But I worked a variety of temp positions over the years.”

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“Stress is not bad but a necessary part of facing life's challenges. Whilst the dreamers maintain the delusion that 'all accidents are preventable' the rest of us know that the bumps and challenges of life are necessary for learning, resilience and maturation. There can be no resilience without stress, and no learning without risk.”
“We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.”

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“I've always felt that the cool thing about being a writer is that all you need is paper to do the job.”

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“It takes people a little longer to get in to you when you have a distinct sound - especially if you're not force-feeding singles to pop radio. I try to be as much of an enigma as I can... because I want to be present and have people know what my message is, but then again, I want that mystery. There's a sensuality in the mystery that I think drives people to listen to my music.”

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“Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.”

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