"Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail"

-- Alfred Whitney Griswold

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“Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life.”
“Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.”
“It must be all the same to the citizens ("ressortissants", Fr.) of a country that their governing (those in power) speak such language or such other ("telle langue ou telle autre", Fr.); likewise that it must be all the same to them that these adhere to such or such religion, so long as a full (or complete) liberty is equally garantee for everyone.”
“I do think women generally are more humble.”

Source : "Kay Bailey Hutchison: I Thought About Running For President" By Jennifer Bendery, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2012.
“A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.”
“Everyone now has a sacred cow in the tax code. For my money, the most sacred thing of all is our country and its growth, but the sacred cows have turned into a pack of wolves.”
“It's very easy I think when you're a creative person to wait for the right thing and to start getting self-conscious about how you are going to express what you do and what's special about you. I would say in general, a lot of times the answer is that you just dive into something and you find your own voice through that process.”

Source : "Mitch Hurwitz on the Creative Process, Casting Jason Bateman, and Loose Seals". Interview with John Sellers, www.vulture.com. October 22, 2013.
“Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound.”

Source : "Eponymous Rex". Interview with Marc Weidenbaum, disquiet.com. April 15, 1997.

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